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Kick the smoking habit before your procedure

Did you know that smoking can impede the healing process after a plastic surgery procedure? That’s right, for the best possible outcome after your surgery it’s best to kick the habit to the curb. Surgeons at the University of Texas found that women smokers who underwent breast reconstruction after cancer surgery had higher rates of […]

After getting lipo, will the excess skin shrink back to size?

Following liposuction, loose skin tends to become looser. It all depends on the appearance and quality of the patient’s skin, and everyone is different. Your plastic surgeon should always explain during the consultation for liposuction that the final appearance and tone of the skin is unpredictable. A second procedure is sometimes necessary to remove the […]

Can you gain weight again after lipo? Can some people who’ve had it still not be skinny? And if you get your stomach sucked, will fat accumulate in other body parts?

Liposuction, or lipoplasty, slims and reshapes specific areas of the body with disproportionate contours due to localized fat deposits. It is not a way to lose weight. Liposuction removes fat from the areas treated, but leaves enough remaining so as to not create an abnormal contour. It is still possible to gain or lose weight […]

After Botox, can your face freeze into a weird position?

As much as we’d like to say yes, those threats that your mother used as a child were true, that is not the case. Botox induces muscular relaxation, not contraction. However, overuse can render your forehead relatively expressionless. And if injected into the wrong spots, it can prevent you from smiling.

Can breast implants freeze if they get too cold?

The technical answer to that question is yes, silicone breast implants can in fact freeze if it gets too cold. However, the freezing point of silicone is -67 degrees Fahrenheit (-55 degrees Celsius). In order for breast implants to get that cold in a persons body, well… they’d be dead before that ever happened. In […]