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I had a great time at our national plastic surgery society meeting in Chicago at the end of September, getting updates in the latest developments in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery!  I also really enjoy Chicago for the food and architecture.  Soon after I returned I also visited a local expert, Dr. Hani Sbitany at UCSF, to see up close how Continue Reading…

Hello again!  Welcome to our new website – My other new addition is at home, our darling little baby who I try to keep off social media.  Actually, this post was inspired by the numerous questions/comments I had on returning to work at the hospital: Men noticing that I looked “pretty good” (I think they meant not too different from Continue Reading…

With my own baby at home I have first-hand experience with the concerns of the parents of newborns! In addition to checking for a cleft palate that first day, I also inspected my new baby’s ears.  The same hormones that allow the pelvis to relax for birth also soften babies’ cartilage.  Just like the head shape can be temporarily changed Continue Reading…

Our friends at Byrdie nicely summarized the important things about lip injections – what to know before you try. “we all want to say that we #wokeuplikethis, even if our dirty little secret is that we got a little outside help. Ideally, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.”  So true!  Natural is what we like – “my lips but Continue Reading…

  Ariel Henley writes movingly about her experience here with Crouzon syndrome, a congenital craniofacial anomaly.  In craniofacial surgery, the goal is to create more normal appearance, that doesn’t trigger comments in passing and most important, harmonizes how “normal” the patient feels inside, with their outer appearance.  It’s hard work and tremendously rewarding.

Effy Redman penned a lovely essay about her experience with Mobius syndrome.  In this congenital deformity, the nerves that supply the muscles in the face don’t develop properly, so children have little to no expression.  A “social smile” develops by around 6 weeks of age, so very quickly there can be a disconnect from the baby’s feelings, and what others Continue Reading…

Over at Refinery29, they collected great advice about how to plan for a breast augmentation.  See the best (which we agree with!) below: First things first: Do a little homework. While an indiscriminate Google search on boob jobs, lifts, or reductions will probably take you down a rabbit hole of overwhelming (and sometimes dubious) information, focused initial research is crucial. Continue Reading…

Over at Byrdie, one woman has written her account of having breast reduction surgery: “I felt like I finally recognized the person looking back at me. I was confident in a way I hadn’t ever been before. It didn’t have as much to do with the way I looked, but more about the way I felt from minute to minute. Continue Reading…

We carry the EarWell ear molding device, and it was just profiled on NPR! Between one-fifth and one-third of infants are born with prominent or misfolded ears.  Immediately after birth, the cartilage is very flexible, thanks to circulating estrogen left over from pregnancy. The ears are especially malleable. Some misfolded ears unfold on their own shortly after the child is Continue Reading…

Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez have made fuller derrieres more popular and mainstream – Beware injections offered with silicone, rather than your own fat harvested and injected in an operating room. This CNN story describes the death and injuries of several women who received buttocks injections with silicone.  Silicone is safe in an implant, but is not meant to be Continue Reading…