Otoplasty Ear Reshaping Surgery East Bay California
Ear reshaping surgery is focused on correcting several deformities of the ear that can cause prominence or noticeable ears in a person. These corrections are often done at a younger age or as an adult. And then it is my job to explain to them what we can do and what the limitations may be. Then, taking all this together, we come up with a surgical plan that will deliver what the patient’s goal is from the surgery.
Laser Skin Resurfacing San Francisco Walnut Creek California
Patients often ask me what is the difference between a face lift and facial laser resurfacing. A face lift lifts the deeper tissues of the face into position but it does not remove the fine wrinkles of the superficial skin that we may see in the mirrors. So the laser resurfacing takes care of these fine wrinkles and often laser resurfacing may be a good complement to be done at the same time or in a staged type procedure after a face lift to get the ideal contour and shape of the face.
Rhinoplasty Nose Surgery Candidates East Bay California
Patients who come to me for rhinoplasty surgery generally have a very good idea of what they don’t like about their nose. It may be a bump on the back of their nose, it may be a poorly defined tip or a bulbous tip, it may be poor tip definition, or a drooping tip, or even a wide nose. We discuss their concerns and I then discuss with them what the surgical possibilities are. If there are limitations we go over those and then we come up with a surgical plan which will allow me to deliver them the goal that they have for this operation.
The ultimate goal from rhinoplasty or nose surgery is to bring a natural balance to the face for that patient’s facial features and bring about the harmony that you would expect among the facial features.
Rhinoplasty Nose Surgery Walnut Creek Dr. Ramin Behmand
Rhinoplasty or nose surgery, yet better known as a nose job, is one of the most intricate operations that we perform in plastic surgery. The nose has a central position on the face, it affects the appearance of the eye and the relationship of the structures of the face. The goal in this operation is to bring overall balance to nose as an individual structure and also to the face by reshaping the nose. Also during the same operation we want to ensure that breathing remains good out of the nose and easy for the patient after the surgery or if breathing is not good before surgery that the right operation is done for inside of the nose, such as a septoplasty or removal of areas enlarged within the nose so that breathing can be easier for the patient after the nose surgery operation.
Browlift with Eyelid Surgery Blepharoplasty San Francisco California
A brow lift or an endoscopic brow lift and upper eyelid surgery often complement each other very well in that the brow lift is done first, putting the brows in the right position, and then that is followed by an upper eyelid surgery to remove any remaining excess skin or fatty tissue. Wrinkles around the eyes are a tell-tale sign of aging. At the same time, brows that are coming down too far cause your eyelids to appear heavy and tired. There is a distinction between these two operations. The aging eyelids may have excess skin, laxity of the muscles and the tissues around the eye which can be tightened. Also, some of the fatty tissue on which the eye itself sits may start protruding and create puffiness around the eye. Many people notice that in the mornings. These can be repositioned to give a more smooth contour to the lower eyelid, to remove the excess skin from the upper eyelid, and to give an overall better shape and position to the eyelids. If you have ptosis of the brow or drooping of the brow it causes heaviness of the upper eyelids and it’s not really corrected by the upper eyelid surgery. The operation for elevating the brow or a brow lift is significantly less invasive now than it was in the past for an incision would be created from ear to ear over the scalp. Today we make small incisions, no more than about a quarter of an inch large, in the scalp, and use cameras and surgical equipment to lift the brows under the skin and put them in the ideal position that we want.
Facelift Necklift Procedures Walnut Creek California
One of the hallmarks of aging is an aging neck and of course that brings us to face and neck lift procedures. There is now a trend in plastic surgery to move towards minimally invasive procedures. Some of them we’ve talked about such as skin fillers and injectables in order to improve the signs of aging of the face. The other ones are more surgical, things such as mini face lift or thread lift that we hear about now. A minimally invasive procedure is good for people who are good candidates for it but there are people who are not a good candidate for minimally invasive and that’s where the face and neck lift comes in. The goal of a face and neck lift is to remove the excess skin from the face and the neck area, and to tighten the underlying muscles of facial movement, and also to put the fat pads back where they were before they started sagging so the right parts of the face have their natural youthful appearance.
Thermage Non-Invasive Skin Treatments East Bay CA
One of the more exciting things that’s come along in non-surgical is, tightening of the skin, Thermage or ThermaCool, as the trademark is. Thermage uses radio frequency waves to affect the deeper skin and cause it to contract without damaging the more superficial skin. What this means is that as the outer skin is being cooled by the treatment tip the deeper skin is treated with the radio frequency waves, starting a process in which the skin starts tightening over the next six to eight months. Effectively this means that the patient can have the procedure and go to work the next day without any untoward effects from the procedure.
BOTOX Cosmetic Fillers San Francisco East Bay California
I’m often asked what the difference between BOTOX and other soft tissue fillers is. BOTOX works on dynamic wrinkle production, meaning that muscles that contract and produce wrinkles in the face. BOTOX paralyzes these muscles locally without spreading around the body and smoothes out the area that the muscles are causing to wrinkle. Soft tissue filler simply fills a line that’s there but it does not stop the muscles from producing the line. Usually a combination of the two can be extremely effective for certain areas.
Injectables and Dermal Fillers Behmand Plastic Surgery East Bay CA
One of the most exciting things that’s happened in plastic and cosmetic surgery in the last five or six years here in the United States is the introduction of a group of soft tissue fillers and injectables that are used for reducing wrinkles. The injectables are things such as BOTOX that deal with the dynamic nature of wrinkle production, meaning things that move, and the soft tissue fillers are , and Juvederm. It used to tighten RADIUS, Perlane things such as Restylane be that we only heard about collagen, which was a shorter acting, shorter lasting filler with more incidences of allergic reactions, and now we are not seeing that. We have at our disposal a whole new host of material in order to reduce wrinkles in the face. Injectable skin fillers provide a whole new area and whole new process of reducing wrinkles and removing blemishes from the face. The wrinkles that can be effectively reduced or removed with the areas of frown lines on the forehead, laugh lines around the mouth, and even acne scars can be significantly improved by soft tissue fillers.
Plastic Surgery Walnut Creek Non Surgical Procedures
There’s a variety of non-surgical procedures now available to improve your esthetic appearance. The advantage that they have is that the procedures are quick, they can be done in the office during the day between work hours and the recovery tends to be quick. They include , and non-surgical skin tightening such as soft tissue fillers, BOTOX radio frequency skin tightening. There’s a variety of non-surgical procedures now available to improve your esthetic appearance. The advantage that they have is that the procedures are quick, they can be done in the office during the day between work hours and the recovery , and tends to be quick. They include soft tissue fillers, BOTOX non-surgical skin tightening such as radio frequency skin tightening.