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Aesthetics, Skin Center

February 15, 2020

February’s A Good Time for Some Crystals

Admit it. When you saw that headline your first thought was to pull up Shirley Maclaine’s New Age blog and start streaming Yanni on Spotify. Uh, that’s not what we’re talking about at Providence Plastic Surgery & Skin Center in Charlotte. We’re talking about using crystals to abrade the top layer of your skin. Think …

Brazilian Butt Lift

January 24, 2020

Thinking About a Brazilian Butt Lift? We Answer All Your Questions

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Brazilian butt lifts grew in popularity by 26% from 2015 to 2016, inspired in part by celebrities with memorable backsides, such as Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez. A Brazilian butt lift is a cosmetic enhancement procedure that uses fat grafting to add volume and shape to your …

Liposuction

January 24, 2020

Tummy Tuck or Liposuction: Which is Best for Your Muffin Top?

Body fat is the nemesis of many people who want a sculpted body. No matter how hard you work on it, some stores of fat resist all toning efforts. And when you combine stubborn fat with loose skin and weak muscles, it can be nearly impossible to tone your midsection. However, there are more treatment …

Plastic Surgery

January 24, 2020

Muffin Top, Mommy Makeover & More Plastic Surgery Slang

Modern English is awash with slang. The use of slang has exploded due to technology and our almost constant exposure to people’s ramblings via the Internet, tweets, etc. One amusing but sometimes vulgar source of modern slang is found at the urban dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/popular.php?character=A Like Wikipedia, it is a web-based dictionary that allows contributions from the lay …

Uncategorized

January 24, 2020

New Controversial Diet Pill Has Two Stunning and Previously Unknown Side Effects

I recently received an unsolicited email from a company hawking diet pills with this statement in the heading: “THESE CONTROVERSIAL- SKINNY PILLS- HAVE DOCTORS.. RAVING Dr. Gear. Being who I am, I could not resist commenting on this. For starters, the “diet” industry is a multi-billion $ machine. There is an ocean of desperate souls who want …

Plastic Surgery

January 24, 2020

Plus Size Beauty and Plastic Surgery

Many of patients are plus size girls rather than the anorexic Barbie’s I saw during some of my plastic surgery training in Los Angeles. It can be more of a surgical challenge to work on larger patients, and you have to know your boundaries and safety parameters. That being said, more modern techniques of body …

Plastic Surgery

January 24, 2020

Real Housewives of Charlotte?

Most of these Real Housewives reality shows are quite entertaining for us to watch. But the reality is that most patients do not want to look like the women on those shows. When patients come in and are considering facial fillers for the first time, I am frequently told that “I don’t want to look like (blank) …

Uncategorized

January 24, 2020

How to enhance your butt? Lose the front butt.

I do a lot of BBLs (aka Brazilian Buttlifts aka fat grafting of the buttocks). It’s a great procedure that can take a square, middle aged, sponge Bob looking torso and make it more youthful, sexy and feminine. I am a fan. I deal with all shapes and sizes of patients who come in with …

Tummy Tuck

January 24, 2020

How To Avoid a Tummy Tuck: A Public Service Announcement From Providence Plastic Surgery

No, this is not some hustle for a new cream with magical and resurrection-like powers that will tighten your jungle pouch. You can find one example of that here: Like underwear, once the elastic goes, it has to be trashed. The same holds true for post-pregnancy abdominal skin. If it is uber loose, the only fix is a tummy …

Uncategorized

January 24, 2020

To Be or Not To Be … Frozen

So many patients come in for the first time for Botox treatment and express their concern about not wanting to look “fake” or “frozen”. It is always a good topic for conversation. When getting treated with Botox or Dysport for unwanted wrinkles, the goal should be to soften the appearance of these wrinkles. You should still be able to animate and …