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All eyes have been focused lately on Julie Chen, co-host of CBS’s The Talk, who has had to defend her decision to have facial plastic surgery earlier in her career. The CBS daytime television personality revealed her “secret” that she had undergone eye surgery after a news director – her boss – told her she […]

Dermal Fillers Cosmetic injections, or dermal fillers, have become a more mainstream approach to aesthetic beauty over recent years. The procedure can be performed alone or alongside other procedures, both surgical and non-surgical. The option is attractive to patients because the effects are long-lasting (usually several months and up to one year), injections are less-costly […]

A cosmetic surgery that treats the upper-third of the face is called the brow lift, or forehead lift. Typically, this area of the face shows obvious signs of a person’s years due to the expressiveness of the eyes and forehead. Few are the facial expressions that do not prompt movements that eventually contribute to skin […]

Skin cancer is a growing health concern in the United States, and it is often the result of unprotected skin exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, also known as UVA and UVB rays. In places like Newport Beach, California, where there is a lower chance of cloud cover and a temperate climate that is ideal […]

Skin cancer is a growing epidemic among Americans. The media conveys to us that glowing skin equates to attractiveness, while our doctors tell us that these beautifying rays are actually extremely harmful to our skin at the cellular level. More recently, the use of sunscreen has become more than just a suggestion; there has been […]

Strawberry nevus, Cavernous hemangioma A hemangioma is a bulbous collection of excess blood vessels in the skin. The growth, which is the most common tumor infants and children experience, can first be noticed as a bright red, flat patch of skin. About 30% of the time, a child with a hemangioma was born with this […]

Patients may visit Dr. Batniji with an issue regarding a specific facial feature without realizing that one or more areas of the face may contribute to their dissatisfaction. Often times, a person is unable to recognize what would equate to facial harmony. Some individuals will seek the improvement of one feature, but their expectations of […]

Also called Chemical Resurfacing, Chemexfoliation, Chemoexfoliation or Derma Peeling Ancient Egyptians are credited with creating a number of cosmetic products and procedures still in use today. To our knowledge, these innovators developed eyeliner in the form of a stick covered in kohl, tooth brushes and breath fresheners consisting of cinnamon and other natural ingredients, and […]

Also called Facial Reconstruction or Orbital-Craniofacial Reconstruction Facial plastic surgeon Dr. Rami K. Batniji, M.D., F.A.C.S. sees a wide array of patients whose facial features are presented to him in various conditions. Some patients may seek their first plastic surgery of the face, while others come to him requesting a secondary procedure from a previous […]

Intense pulsed light treatments, or IPL, are available to patients seeking to eliminate cosmetic irregularities of the skin such as spider veins (broken capillaries) and brown spots (age spots, liver spots, solar lentigines). In addition to treating these discolorations, photofacial treatments can actually improve the quality of the skin through the promotion of collagen and […]