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October isn’t only for scary costumes and too much Halloween candy — it is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Throughout the month there are specific days to honor the different aspects of the fight against breast cancer,

Along with sun protection, smoking, and the inevitable aging process, diet is another aspect of your lifestyle that can affect your skin. The following is a list of foods that have nutrients that nourish and encourage healthy skin growth.

A breast implant is a medical device used to enhance the volume or shape of a women’s breast during a breast augmentation or breast reconstruction. There are two types of implants approved by the FDA: silicone and saline.

One of Dr. Kim’s most frequently performed procedures is the mommy makeover. Pregnancy can result in excess skin and fat, loosened muscles and a lackluster appearance of the breasts. The mommy makeover gets its name because many women elect to have this procedure after they have had children.

There are many myths surrounding breast augmentation and breast implants.

Implants have to be replaced regularly.

This is not the case at all! While breast implants are prosthetic devices which are not expected to last a patient’s entire lifetime,

Breast augmentation is the most popular plastic surgery procedure available today. But did you know that these do not always involve saline or silicone implants? An autologous breast augmentation differs from an implant based one in that the medium used to enhance the size of the breast is fat from the woman’s own body.

The Daddy-Do-Over trend is the male equivalent to the Mommy Makeover. The Mommy Makeover often includes a tummy tuck, a breast lift or breast augmentation to reverse the effects of pregnancy on the body.

Many procedures done in plastic surgery can provide permanent results and other procedures can last for years, but there are several tips to maintaining the results for procedures that are not necessarily permanent.

A rhytidectomy, more commonly known as a face lift, is an operation to minimize the effects of sun exposure and the natural drooping of the skin as it loses elasticity with age.