Plastic Surgery

After any surgical procedure comes a long list of discharge instructions. Some of which may include: take your medications, rest for a couple days, no exercise etc. Following a plastic surgery procedure it is common to be instructed to compress the area in which you just had surgery.

Scarring is an inevitable consequence of undergoing surgery. Although initial scarring may be a worry to some patients, the maturation of the scar is what physicians monitor over time to ensure proper healing and aesthetic outcomes.

A combined plastic surgery case is when multiple procedures occur during one surgical operation. That means one trip to the operating room and multiple cosmetic or non-cosmetic procedures done at once!

Aesthetic surgery started long before the invention of silicone breast implants and other surgeries that we typically think of when we hear plastic surgery. There is evidence that physicians used skin graft techniques in ancient India over 2800 years ago.

According to ASPS, the number of cosmetic procedures has risen steadily in the past 5 years; in 2015 15.9 million cosmetic procedures were performed and in 2019 18.1 million procedures were performed which constitutes a 2.2 million increase.

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.

Dr. Kim’s article entitled “Demystifying the ‘July Effect’ in Plastic Surgery: A Multi-Institutional Study” will be featured in the upcoming February 2018 issue of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal. This article was also hand-selected for the video program “Editor’s Choice: In Their Own Words” which will feature Dr.

Why should I consider a neck lift?

A lower rhytidectomy, or a neck lift, is a cosmetic procedure that can result in a more youthful appearance of the jawline and neck. Excess fat and sagging skin are to be expected with age,

In 2016 the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports that there were 109, 256 breast reconstruction procedures performed. The act of surgery induces the body’s natural immune response to protect itself,

Dr. Kim and colleagues recently published “Outcomes After Elevation of Serratus Anterior Fascia During  Prosthetic Breast Reconstruction” in the Annals of Plastic Surgery. Immediate prosthetic breast reconstruction is becoming increasingly popular; this approach often involves the placement of an implant below the pectoralis muscle1.