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July 6, 2020

Gluteal augmentation with fat, otherwise known as a “Brazilian Buttlift” or BBL is a hot procedure right now. According to recent statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), fat grafting of the buttocks is one of the fastest-growing procedures in plastic surgery. From 2000 to 2018, it went up 256%! Part of the BBLs appeal …

May 15, 2020

What happens when you merge invigorating spa skin therapies with advanced medical technology? You get the HydraFacial MD®. Since coming on the aesthetic scene in 2015, the HydraFacial MD has become the talk of the industry. Celebrities swear by these super-facials, and so do our clients from Charlotte and the surrounding areas. At Providence Plastic …

April 15, 2020

April is Breast Month at Providence. We’re having our “Stop the Stuff” breast event on April 4, where Dr. Gear provides free consultations and we have special pricing for some breast augmentation procedures. He’ll also talk about your options, from silicone and saline implant choices to the possibilities for augmentation without implants by using fat …

March 15, 2020

One great thing about the human body is its inherent curves. Some of us are curvier than others; some of us, for better or worse, have straighter lines. But these days, curves are in, which is much healthier than the waif-like appearance of models just a decade or so ago. Today, we celebrate the curves …

February 15, 2020

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 …

January 24, 2020

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 …

January 24, 2020

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 …