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A corrugator myectomy is normally performed on patients who are receiving a brow lift (if they opt to have it done). This procedure is the complete or partial removal of the corrugator muscle (the muscle that draws the eyebrows together). That means that this muscle’s strength will be significantly reduced or completely gone.
Most patients that opt to have a corrugator myectomy feel that this is a healthy and more permanent alternative to dermal fillers or BOTOX injections for this area.
There is also a procedure known as a corrugator myotomy which is similar in the fact that it deals with your brow muscle. The difference between the two procedures is that in a myotomy your brow muscle is only cut partway in order to reduce the brow furrowing movement.
Other names that this procedure is know by is a corrugator excision, or a corrugator clipping.
For more information about this procedure please contact Dr. Kim or a plastic surgeon near you.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery – serves the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. For more information please visit the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery website.
For most pregnant women diastasis recti is a term that they are unfamiliar with even though this condition can apply to a lot of pregnant women out there.
Diastasis recti is as known as abdominal separation. What does it entail? Basically the muscle that makes up the front wall of the abdominals, otherwise known as the six-pack muscle spreads apart in the middle.
Most of the time the separation occurs because of the uterus pushing against the abdominal wall. This is why it is most common in women who are pregnant. Also the fact that during pregnancy the hormones in the body can soften the connective tissue and allow it to separate more easily. It can also occur in women who have an overabundance of abdominal fat.
Generally, woman who have this condition can get rid of it by talking to a plastic surgeon and having tummy tuck surgery done.
For more information about diastasis recti or having a tummy tuck procedure done please contact Dr. Kim or a plastic surgeon in your area.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery – serves the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. For more information please visit the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery website.
As you may very well know, there are many surgical procedures and non-surgical procedures that use lasers, but what really is a laser?
Did you know that laser is really an acronym? Yes, it is, and it stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
There are two types of lasers that are used, ablative and nonablative. The difference between the two in simple terms is that an ablative laser works on the surface of the skin and a nonablative works on the deeper layers.
A laser emits on color of light. The laser modulates the frequency of light to produce heat; this heat is then used on your skin in order to address the areas that are in need of attention. The color of the light corresponds to the color of the skin that it is going to be used on (i.e. brown spots, red capillaries, etc.)
Lasers have many different uses and some of the main ones are for:
– Fine Lines and Wrinkles
– Skin Tightening
– Pigmented Lesions
– Precancerous Lesions
– Vascular Lesions
– Tattoos
– Hair Removal
– Acne and Acne Scars
If you’d like to know more about lasers and the different procedures that use lasers please talk to a plastic surgeon near you.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery – serves the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. For more information please visit the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery website.
Monica Vasquez Asks:
Do you recommend silicone over saline is there really a diffrence?
The anwer to that question really depends on the patient. What the breasts currently look like and their size, and the goals of the patient are all important factors in choosing the proper implant.
Silicone does have a more natural feel than saline and less rippling but in patients with enough breast tissue the difference is minimal. Silicone will cost more and possibly a higher capsular contracture rate and if it leaks it will just sit there, so the implant companies recommend that every few years you get an mri to see if it is leaking. So silicone implants may be a little more of a headache in the long run. But for some patients the added benefit of feel is worth the added inconvenience and price. I do about 50/50 saline versus silicone. When a patient comes in for a consultation I will carefully evaluate them to see which implant would be the best choice.
Dr. Kim
Breast augmentation surgery is one of the most popular plastic surgery procedures in the United States. With this in mind, it is important to have a Plastic Surgeon for your procedure. Here at Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery, Dr. Kim is just that.
During your initial consultation you will talk with Dr. Kim about a number of different items concerning your breast augmentation surgery. One of these items is going to be placement of your implants. After meeting with you and looking over a number of factors, Dr. Kim will be able to discuss with you the proper placement for your particular surgery.
There are a few different placement options that are available for breast augmentation surgery. Once again, Dr. Kim will be able to tell you which is the proper placement for you during your consultation. Implant placement depends on the size of the implant, the anatomy of your body, the size of your current breast, and other factors.
Subglandular Implant Placement is one in where the implant is placed underneath the breast tissue, but above the muscles in the chest. Another placement that is considered is Partial Submuscular Implant Placement, meaning that the implant is placed, once again, under the breast tissue but this time also partially underneath the chest muscles. Lastly, Complete Submuscular Implant Placement, is one in where the implant is placed under the chest muscles.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery is one of the leading plastic surgeons in the Los Angeles area. Dr. Kim has many years of experience in breast augmentation surgery. You can be assured that he will find the best placement for your breast implant for your body.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery – serves the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. For more information please visit the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery website.
For most women that are going to have breast augmentation procedures the one main worry is where the incision is going to be placed. At Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery there are many different options and depending on the breast augmentation procedure that you are having done Dr. Kim can consult with you about the different incision areas that are common during this surgery.
For the benefit of our readers, we wanted to quickly go over the different incision areas for breast augmentation surgery so that you have a quick reference to each.
Transaxillary Incision
This incision is one that is made in the transax or armpit. The incision is made in the folds of the skin of the armpit.
Inframammary Incision
This incision is made in the crease or fold where the breast meets the chest.
Periareolar Incision
This particular incision is made around the outline of the areola.
TUBA Incision
Lastly, the TUBA incision is made within the navel or belly button.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery is skilled and experienced in each and every one of these procedures. During your consultation with Dr. Kim, he will go over the incision point that will be best for you and your particular breast augmentation surgery.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery – serves the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. For more information please visit the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery website.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery felt that it was important to give our readers a little bit more information about breast implants and the two different types that are available.
The first piece of information that might be of interest to anyone considering breast implants is to know that there are two types of fillers for the implants: silicone and saline, but that they actual ’shell’ of the implant is always made from silicone. To be more precise, they are made from cured strands of silicone and small amounts of other materials.
The filler of the breast implant is what is referred to when speaking about silicone or saline implants. Here at Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery we use both saline and silicone implants depending on your initial consultation with Dr. Kim. He will go over the benefits of each and which is a good fit for you and your body type as well as other factors like size, shape, and placement.
There is a distinct advantage that saline implants have over silicone and that is the fact that if the implant is ruptured saline will be dissolved by the body, silicone is not. Although this may seem like a huge plus, you have to also keep in mind that saline implants are more likely to show ripples than silicone.
Both of these breast implant options are approved by the FDA for use. In order to ensure that you are choosing the best implant for your desired goals, please contact Dr. Kim at Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery to schedule a consultation.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery – serves the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. For more information please visit the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery website.
Recently, a new way of getting rid of excess fat (that would otherwise have been liposuctioned out) has come about. Although it is experimental there are a few that believe this new medical technology is the wave of future liposuction procedures.
Lipodissolve is the procedures name and it involves a series of injections that are meant to ’melt’ away small deposits of fat. Although it sounds like a completely safe procedure the problem with Lipodissolve is that there is no standard ingredient list. What does this mean? It means that for each doctor the ingredients could be different, making this procedure somewhat less trustworthy then it appears to be.
Another problem is that since the fat is not taken out of the body, where does it go? There are many theories on this subject.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery does not practice Lipodissolve on our patients. We believe in using only procedures that are approved by the FDA. Dr. Kim has performed many different liposuction procedures and always has great results and satisfied patients.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery – serves the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. For more information please visit the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery website.
Abdominoplasty is a common procedure that is performed by many different plastic surgeons and is meant to tighten the muscles in the stomach area. Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery performs this procedure on many different patients each year and is highly experienced in this area. With that in mind, its always good to learn about different procedures that can be done (sometimes during the same surgery) in addition to your abdominoplasty surgery.
A panniculectomy is a procedure that is commonly done at the same time an abdominoplasty is taking place. This surgery is performed to remove excess fat and skin below the belly button and around the back.
A candidate for panniculectomy would be one that usually suffers from obesity. These patients have fat that around the hips, back, and sometimes even extends down to the knees.
You can find out more information about panniculectomies from any plastic surgeon. Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery is one of the resources that you can use to find out more about any plastic surgery procedure.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery – serves the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. For more information please visit the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery website.
The cost of rhinoplasty can differ all across the nation. Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery does not have set prices for our rhinoplasty procedures and neither do/should any other plastic surgery office.
Why is this?
There are many different factors that go into rhinoplasty pricing. The surgeon’s skill, the difficulty of the procedure, the amount of changes that are being made to the nose, and even the geographical area that the surgery is being done in all has an effect on the price.
With all this in mind, rhinoplasty usually is in the range of $3,000 – $8,000.
What is covered in the cost? Is this just for the surgeon? Will I have to pay extra?
The fee that the plastic surgeon tells you usually comprises of three different areas: the anesthesia, the surgery, and the use of the facility that the surgery takes place at, with a bulk of the cost coming from the surgeons fees. If there are other fees associated with the procedure or something that is not covered in the cost that the plastic surgeon tells you then they should also cover that in their initial consultation with you.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery is one of the most reasonably priced plastic surgery offices in the Los Angeles area and Dr. Kim is extremely experienced in all areas of plastic surgery. For more information on Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery’s pricing you can contact Dr. Kim and set up a time to come in a visit us.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery – serves the Beverly Hills / Los Angeles area. For more information please visit the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery website.