Facial Plastic Surgery Blog

You’d have to be living under a rock to miss hearing about Botox by now. The FDA-approved injectable treatment has become a wildly popular method of treating age lines and creases on the face and bands on the neck, helping to make people look younger.

For four days, an impressive roster of facial plastic surgeons, plastic surgeons, dermatologists, and oculoplastic surgeons convened at California’s Beverly Wilshire Hotel to present and debate facial techniques in dynamic panels, interactive workshops, and uberpopular live surgery sessions.

Cosmetic nose surgery is a great way to transform not just the nose but the entire look of the face. The nose can be altered in a number of ways, including the angle at which it projects away from the face, its size, and shape. An increasing number rhinoplasty patients are of varying ethnicities and display the characteristics that are common of their race, and while many of them seek to improve the look of their nose, they also want to retain their ethnic identity.

Plastic surgery of the neck, performed by liposuction alone or a neck lift procedure, treats the subdermal causes of aesthetic issues. Typically, the structures are most affected by gravity and must be tightened and trimmed to reshape the neck. Common concerns are a double chin (submental fat), softened contours of the neck, visible vertical bands of the neck, and muscle and skin laxity.

Plastic surgery is an extremely complex and custom process, involving both the aesthetics and function of the facial feature. While most people seek aesthetic enhancement for anti-aging or re-contouring purposes, facial reconstruction is an important subset of the plastic surgery field.