Plastic Surgery Seattle Blog

Check out The Wall Street Journal Smart Money column for  “5 Tips to Shrink Your Plastic Surgery Bill.”  They’re offering advice on how to choose a plastic surgeon, schedule your surgery at the last minute, make price comparisons, deal with your insurance company (if necessary) and finally – pay for the procedure.

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If that interests you and you’re seeking low cost cosmetic procedures, view this article about “6 procedures you may actually want and can actually afford.”

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A tummy tuck tightens the lower abdominal muscles (if they are sagging), removes excess loose skin, and resculpts the abdomen.  Today, I want to share some reasons why mini abdominoplasty might be a good idea for you – and some reasons why you might be better off waiting to have your surgery.

5 indicators for abdominoplasty

1. If you regularly exercise, eat a healthy diet and are within 10% of the ideal weight for your age and height but can’t get rid of a sagging lower belly and loose skin below the navel, abdominoplasty can often correct the problem. It’s a fact that exercise and diet alone are not enough if you have muscle laxity and excess skin on your lower abdomen.

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Sirius Doctor Radio on Saturday featured a program called “The Dean’s List: A Decade in Medicine,” which outlined major medical breakthroughs of the past decade. Host Dr. Andrew Brotman and other physicians discussed 5 breakthroughs in depth, some of them directly related to cosmetic surgery.

Along with the drug, procedure, and medical discovery of the decade, The Surgery of the Decade was “Minimally Invasive,” including advanced techniques that utilize “smaller incisions, laparoscopes, robotics and computer-aided surgery.”

Such minimally invasive procedures would include transumbilical breast augmentation, a surgery that uses an endoscope to place breast implants through an incision in the navel.

See the full list of medical breakthroughs here.

Is looking better near the top of your list of New Year’s resolutions.  Are fine wrinkles detracting from your appearance?  If so, Botox might be the solution you’re seeking.

By now, you probably know that BOTOX is a highly diluted form of the botulinum toxin used to correct certain facial lines and wrinkles. FDA-approved in 2002, BOTOX injections may be the single most popular non-surgical procedure to reduce or eliminate facial lines, wrinkles and grooves.

Wrinkles emerge over time

Crow’s feet, lines and even deep grooves appear on our faces over the years, the result of our natural expressiveness, lifestyle habits, and the tendency to move our facial muscles in habitual ways. For instance, you may squint a lot (when you’re concentrating, when you’re worried, when the sun is bright, or when you are trying to focus your vision.) As the years go by, this repetitive motion begins to carve lines in your face and can eventually result in a permanent expression of worry or intense concentration.

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