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Is Stress Causing You To Lose Your Hair?

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There are many causes linked to hair loss in men and women, some of which are reversible and can be repaired, allowing the return of healthier hair growth and sustainability. One reversible cause of hair loss, in particular, is stress. This condition is also known as Telogen Effluvium. With this condition, you may start to see an increase in hair shedding three months after a stressful event. Stressful events on the body may include, but are not limited to:

Illness
Childbirth
Surgery
Emotional Stress
Significant weight loss
Fever
Inadequate sleep
Inadequate dietary intake

When you begin to notice stress-induced hair loss, it is essential to identify its cause. Once you identify the root cause, you can work towards a solution.

Solutions to Stress-Induced Hair Loss

Possible solutions may include:

Eating a healthy diet – the best way to do this is to track the foods you eat regularly to determine what you may be lacking. 

To prevent further hair loss, it is essential to focus on whole food and a well-balanced diet (fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein).

Over-the-counter supplements – nutritional deficiencies can cause stress-induced hair loss. A health care provider can assist with blood work to see if you lack any of these nutrients (Ferritin, Vitamin D, Zinc, Vitamin B12) and recommend the addition of supplements into your daily routine if necessary.

Managing your stress – learning to manage the stress that you are currently experiencing is not only beneficial in the short term but can also help you cope with stressful situations that may arise in the future. There are many ways you can practice stress management at home, including:

Yoga/Exercise
Meditation
Deep breathing exercises

For most individuals, the effects of stress-induced hair loss can be temporary and reversible. The sooner you can identify the cause, the sooner you can work toward a solution. While managing your stress, it is crucial to remember that it can take 1-3 months for the shedding to stop and up to a year for any hair loss to regrow after the stressor is adequately managed fully.

At Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery, Dr. Steven Davis specializes in state-of-the-art processes that help stimulate growth or re-growth of your hair. Please contact our offices to discuss your hair restoration treatment options and how DCPS is here to help.

Dr. Steven Davis Takes on NYC Cosmetic Surgery Meeting (Full Episode)

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Dr. Steven Davis takes on New York City for a cosmetic surgery meeting, and you don’t want to miss out on the fun! Start off with Dr. Davis in a beautiful Manhatten hotel as he briefly covers the topics of this intriguing meeting full of industry-leading techniques & professionals. As the holidays arrive, plastic surgeons are hard at work discussing new filler materials to make sure everyone feels their best during the upcoming season.

Next, tune in to a fascinating discussion with famous fellowship-trained dermatologist Dr. Joel Cohen. Dr. Cohen has worked with the Carruthers, who originally described the use of Botox in the 1980s. He also discusses how to balance maintaining a practice while staying involved in the latest plastic surgery research.

Dr. Davis goes on to discuss the Fern technique with renowned Netherland’s aesthetic physician, Dr. Thomas van Eijk. Dr. Thomas van Eijk invented this technique in 2004, which uses hydraulic acid to strengthen the skin while targeting specific areas of the face.

Keep up with all of Dr. Steven Davis’s adventures at this NYC cosmetic surgery meeting below by watching the latest video on the Davis CPS YouTube channel. Enjoy!

[Transcript]

Intro

  • So I’m here in New York City for a cosmetic surgery meeting. And one of the things that we’re really gonna be focusing on this time of year is trying to come up with new filler materials and new things that we can do to make you look as youthful and as perfect for the holiday season as possible.
  • And you can see around me, this gorgeous hotel also is doing that same kind of a thing. So, stay tuned because we have a lot of interesting things that we’re gonna be talking about at this special meeting.

Dr. Davis interviews Dr. Joel Cohen

  • Hi, everybody. I’m here with Dr. Joel Cohen, a very, very famous board-certified, a fellowship trained dermatologist. But I’m in Manhattan, and we gotta talk a little bit real quickly, ’cause he’s going up on stage in a minute. Plastic Surgery Revolution. Couple quick questions. I know you did your training with the Carruthers’ who are like the people that started this whole Botox thing. Give me a couple of quick things that you can tell me that helped you with or that you learned from them or anything like that.
  • So, Alastair and Jean Carruthers are really the pioneers of using botulinum toxins and they described the first cosmetic use of Botox really back in the late 1980s. So Jean is an oculoplastic surgeon and Alastair is a dermatologist. And she actually noticed that when she injected patients for blepharospasm or strabismus or different things in the periocular area, that they actually had softening of the muscle here and here. And that led to what we do commonly today all the time.
  • So, you’re so involved in not only just doing clinical studies and things like that and doing also practice. How do you blend all these things together? Because that’s something I always talk to you about because I think you did do a lot of fellowship training and lasers and in Mohs surgery. So, how do you do all that and still have time to do the papers and the research and things like that?
  • Well, first of all, I was a history major and I love really putting the story together. So, I’m an avid reader and I’ve always liked to write. And when it comes time for family occasions and things like that, where you give a speech, that’s one of those things. My kids had bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah and you write a great speech. And I think when you are able to tell a story, even in the introductory paragraphs of something like, Hey, you know, this was discovered by, and we’re going to talk about this and we’re gonna review this. Or this is a novel concept, and this is where it came from, those types of things. So I think every article is a story and it really allows us to express ourselves, design a study, and then I’m super type A, so I’m type A positive, which is my blood type. And I actually, when I dictate to my transcriptionist, I actually put the commas and the periods and the exclamation points and the capitals and the paragraphs. And I like to do that. It gives me a sense of completion when I’m writing a chapter or writing a paper.
  • Yeah, I love that, last question. What do you see moving to 2022? ‘Cause you’re like at the forefront of all these things happening, you got your finger on the pulse of everything in aesthetic surgeries and everything.
  • Well, I think as we move forward into 2022, I think I learned from my colleagues and my friends and my mentors with Dr. Steve Davis, world famous plastic surgeon right now. And our videographer is Tom van Eijk and from the Netherlands, who’s discovered ferning and written about that. And we’re just hanging out at a meeting. We all come from different backgrounds, different places, and we’re all friends because of opportunities like this. And this allows us to learn together, to learn from each other and to see what other people are doing. And I think for me, that’s incredibly exciting. And I will say that I had a light bulb that went off recently for me in terms of some of the things that we do because, honestly I do sit ups every once in a while. And then, I know about Emsculpt and all this. With Emsculpt Neo, I was intrigued because David Kent just did an article about reducing visceral fat. And honestly, I’m optimistic that we’re at this transition point between, we know that some of the aesthetics that we do make people feel better about themselves. And when you’re feel better about themselves, you may have more self-confidence you may project yourself differently. We know that working out, similarly, does these types of things. And I think we’re seeing the ability for some of the aesthetic things that we might do to actually transcend to the medical world. And that was one of those things that the light bulb went out for me.
  • Thank you, everybody you’ve been listening to the Plastic Surgery Revolution, and we’ll be back talking to you next week. Thank you.

Dr. Davis interviews Dr. Thomas van Eijk

  • Welcome everyone to The Plastic Surgery Revolution. I’m your host, Dr. Steven Davis, and I actually have someone here who is an aesthetic physician, from the Netherlands, from Amsterdam. It’s Thomas van Eijk.
  • Hi
  • And here he is. He is very, very well known for a technique that he came up with back in 2004, or five?
  • Four.
  • Four.
  • Yeah.
  • Long, long time ago.
  • It’s a long time ago, but he still looks unbelievable. He does look a lot like David Spade. Do people tell you that? Do you know who David Spade is?
  • No.
  • He’s a comedian, but you look at lot like him.
  • I’ll look him up.
  • You have really good hair. I wanted to ask you, if you would explain to people what the Fern technique is and how you came up with it, and it’s like a lot of people that may be like, you know, laid people, really not in the medical community. What would you say that is?
  • Well, the essence is that if you inject hyaluronic acid, which is like the most common filler.
  • Right.
  • You can do it in several layers of the skin, or under the skin.
  • Right.
  • Most people tend to inject under the skin to fill up the face, which is fine if you need volume, but sometimes you find that a wrinkle or a fold doesn’t require volume to be corrected, but it requires strength.
  • Strength of the skin.
  • Yes. If you inject that same hyaluronic acid, not under the skin, but in the skin where the leather is, where the collagen is, then you strengthen without giving volume. So you can actually choose when you have the filler in your syringe, whether you wanna give volume, or strength.
  • I understand.
  • And if you find a fold like this one, not being there because there’s a lack of volume underneath, but because there is a lack of strength at the skin, ’cause of the disruption of the collagen.
  • Right.
  • Like damage. Then, adding strength makes more sense than adding volume.
  • Absolutely understood. So when you’re coming up with the idea of a Fern technique, you’re seeing, if you’re coming at it together, you’re building strength where that wrinkle would merge.
  • If the wrinkle is in the middle, and then if you inject from one side, and you inject from the other side, and you intertwine those injections.
  • Right.
  • Because it’s very strong in the middle. So this is where the damage is at its peak. It’s where your correction is at it’s peak. The alternating effect, that resembles the leaves of a fern.
  • The leaves of the fern.
  • Basically.
  • I like that. Have you found that the hyaluronic acid is like a semi-permanent type of a filler, because it is actually stimulating the patient’s collagen production at the same time?
  • Right, right. Whenever you put hyaluronic acid in the dermis, the dermis will respond by producing more collagen.
  • Exactly.
  • Which is a stiffening.
  • Yeah.
  • Element.
  • Right.
  • So you can imagine that if you add strength on the skin, in a pattern, reacting to the weakness you have found. Then the skin will respond by producing more collagen in that same pattern.
  • Absolutely.
  • You’re kind of rebuilding actual natural collagen.
  • Now in the Netherlands, I’m sure you have a lot of other kinds of fillers that we have in the United States that are not maybe FDA approved. But have you found things like Sculptra or other things that you use in conjunction? Or you’re strictly-
  • I use Sculptra, I use Sculptra. Because, well, Sculptra needs to be injected deeper.
  • Yes.
  • Than hyaluronic acid. And it gives an overall global thickening, and strengthening, and improvement of the skin.
  • Right.
  • Which is cool. But sometimes you have very distinct damages. Lines, or scars, acne scars for instance, that you don’t need a global, cloudy, strengthening. You need a very distinct correction of what nature has done damaging collagen.
  • And I think your presentation that you just gave was phenomenal, because you did go through the stages of when you start to develop these secondary and older type of things that happen to your skin as you age. It’s like a hole, as you were calling it, like a chaos that’s happening.
  • Yeah.
  • For everything.
  • Yeah.
  • And I thought that was really, really smart, because it is, you called it, not just chaos-
  • Entropy.
  • Entropy. Just to make it posh.
  • I love it, I love it. Everyone, you’ve been listening to a very, very famous guy named Dr. Thomas Eijk, and you’re listening to The Plastic Surgery Revolution. I’ll be speaking with you again next week. Bye bye for now.

Dr. Steven Davis of Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in Cherry Hill, New Jersey wants to ensure the comfort of all patients, which begins with education. We hope our video series can provide useful information for those with upcoming appointments or interested in the behind-the-scenes action of plastic surgery.

If you want more content in audio format, please check out The Plastic Surgery Revolution. Also, check out Dr. Steven Davis on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter!

Dr. Davis Takes On NYC: Chatting with Renowned Aesthetic Physician Dr. Tom van Eijk

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Board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Davis recently took a trip to NYC for an exclusive cosmetic surgery meeting with other industry-leading professionals. Among the many different interactions along the way, Dr. D chatted with renowned aesthetic physician Dr. Tim van Eijk to discuss several plastic surgery topics. One of which being the Fern Pattern technique, which Dr. Tom van Eijk invented in 2005, as well as the effects of hyaluronic acid.

“Dr. Tom van Eijk in 2005 developed the “Fern Pattern” injection technique, with which strengthening the skin proved possible without blowing up the face in an unnatural way. An additional benefit for the patient is that less filler is needed (which makes the treatment cheaper) and more longer-lasting results are achieved. The trick is to inject hyaluronic acid precisely according to a certain pattern (in the shape of a fern leaf) into the appropriate skin layer. The result is a firming of the skin.”

Via https://tomvaneijkkliniek.nl/

Listen in with the duo of Dr. Davis and Dr. Tom van Eijk on The Plastic Surgery Revolution, and stay tuned for more adventures from Dr. Davis around New York City!

Thank you for tuning in to The Plastic Surgery Revolution with Dr. Tom van Eijk. If you would like more content with Dr. Steven Davis, check out our Youtube channel. Please give us a follow on social media to keep up: Instagram / Twitter.

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Upper Eyelid Lift & Neck Lift for Men

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Due to how much time we’ve spent staring at ourselves in the past year, upper eyelid and neck lift surgeries have become very popular among men.

An upper eyelid lift is a perfect solution for those who are sick of looking so tired all the time. By taking away the excess amount of skin around the eyelid, you will not only look more alert but as well substantially younger.

Aside from upper eyelid treatments, a neck lift, also known as a direct platysmaplasty, is a great way to eliminate that turkey neck you are sick of staring at. Neck lifts for men have dramatically increased in popularity within the past 6-8 months, so what are you waiting for? Dr. Steven Davis is always happy to discuss these plans on a virtual consultation to get your look back to the way you want it.

Thanks for tuning in, and keep on the lookout for more videos and podcasts discussing the “turkey neck revision!”

[Transcript]

The upper eyelid lift has been around a very long time but a lot of men now are coming in to talk about it mainly because they’re seeing themselves so much on these zoom calls and the operation really takes a little less than an hour to perform.

What we’re doing is really taking the excess amount of skin and sometimes some fat away from that upper eyelid that starts to make you look not only tired, but a lot older.

The second operation is a neck lift for men. Now most of the time when we’re talking about doing a neck lift or a facelift, we’re talking about actually doing a more formal type of a facelift.

Most women want that type of a procedure but a lot of men come in and what they’ve been asking me for is really just something that’s going to fix this little turkey neck or this extra amount of skin that resides in this area.

And we have a very elegant way of just simply removing that amount of extra skin and it’s called a direct Platysmaplasty. And we’ve been doing a lot of them over the past I’d say six to eight months.

Watch my video coming up and some before and afters that you’ll see on my website and you’ll really get a chance to see how transformative that can actually be.

Dr. Steven Davis of Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in Cherry Hill, New Jersey wants to ensure the comfort of all patients, which begins with education. We hope our video series can provide useful information for those with upcoming appointments or interested in the behind-the-scenes action of plastic surgery.

If you want more content in audio format, please check out The Plastic Surgery Revolution. Also, check out Dr. Steven Davis on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter!

Healing From Plastic Surgery

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Healing from plastic surgery can feel like a meticulous process. As you may know, there are always standards to follow to ensure your post-treatment goes as smoothly as possible. With the proper protocols in place, healing from plastic surgery should be seamless for you as a patient here at Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Make sure you give this week’s episode of Dr. Steven Davis’s plastic surgery podcast, “The Plastic Surgery Revolution,” a listen to learn about the nuances of healing from plastic surgery. Our cosmetic practice is always working toward making sure our patients have the best post-op experience possible, and that’s what today’s show is all about!

If you have any questions or would like to learn more, please feel free to contact our team directly by clicking here or calling 856-424-1700.

Thank you for tuning in to The Plastic Surgery Revolution. If you would like more content with Dr. Steven Davis, check out our Youtube channel. Please give us a follow on social media to keep up: Instagram / Twitter.

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Combining BodyTite and FLASH Liposuction

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Are you caught up to speed with the magic behind FLASH liposuction?

Invented by Dr. Steven Davis himself, this innovative procedure allows him to target a specific body area with a syringe technique. Patients are amazed to learn the entire process is completed with same-day results! Dr. Davis can even show you exactly what was removed after your appointment finishes up. Well, if you thought that was good – wait until you hear about combination therapies!

By combining BodyTite radio-frequency and FLASH liposuction, you’ll be amazed by the results that we accomplish without needing a long and challenging recovery. Join Dr. Davis as he discusses combining the two treatments to achieve miraculous results. Then, make sure you contact our practice directly to set up your consultation!

[Transcript]

Hi, everyone. This time of the year is really, really, really so exciting because so many people wanna get little things done. So they have a little time off, maybe they have some family around to take care of them.

One of the things that we’ve been doing so much of in the office, is FLASH. And for all of you that have watched my channel before, have watched us do some of this FLASH, it’s removing fat in small little areas, when we’re doing it in the office setting. So it’s really exciting because it’s an immediate type of a result, and the beauty of it is, it can literally be taking care of while you and I are just talking amongst ourselves.

So if it’s a little love handle area, if it’s an outer thigh area, if it’s even a zone underneath the neck, we can do this FLASH Technique to really get rid of that excess amount of fat immediately. But, here’s the nuance that I wanted to tell you about.

I’m now incorporating BodyTite radio-frequency energy, at the same time, and what that’s allowing me to do, is not only get rid of that fat, but I’m also tightening the skin that’s around that zone, that had that excess amount of fat. So if this sounds like something that maybe, you’re thinking about, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at daviscps.com.

Dr. Steven Davis of Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in Cherry Hill, New Jersey wants to ensure the comfort of all patients, which begins with education. We hope our video series can provide useful information for those with upcoming appointments or interested in the behind-the-scenes action of plastic surgery.

If you want more content in audio format, please check out The Plastic Surgery Revolution. Also, check out Dr. Steven Davis on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter!

The New Age of Hair Restoration

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Many years ago, almost 99% of the patients that we saw for hair restoration were men. With the invention of hair transplant in the ’60s, the innovative technique of using donor hairs to replace dead hair follicles was revolutionary.

Fast forward to today, the new age of hair restoration is alive and well, with new technology making hair transplants elegant & seamless for both men and women.

Have you been noticing hair loss due to COVID or simply just due to the natural aging process? Please get in touch with Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, to learn about the advancement of hair restoration and how we can revive your hair all over the body.

Thank you for tuning in to The Plastic Surgery Revolution on hair restoration. If you would like more content with Dr. Steven Davis, check out our Youtube channel. Please give us a follow on social media to keep up: Instagram / Twitter.

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New Hair Restoration Treatments

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When you hear the term, “hair restoration,” typically the first thought that comes to mind is restoring hair on the scalp. With new technology introduced here at Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery, hair restoration is no longer limited to just one area. If you’re someone who is experiencing hair loss in areas such as the eyebrows, we can now perform a transplant to bring back fuller brows.

These exciting advancements in the ability to restore hair loss don’t just stop there! We now provide options for non-surgical treatments such as Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) for those who aren’t interested in invasive surgeries.

Give us a call to learn all about the advancement in hair restoration treatments. We can’t wait to help restore your hair while, in turn, restoring confidence in yourself.

[Transcript]

Hi, did you know that we’re doing hair transplants here at Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery? It’s been something that I’ve done years ago and we finally brought it back into the practice because of the new technology that really allows us to do it in a very elegant fashion. But I wanna make sure that you understand the nuances of doing it.

Some of you could come in and literally have your eyebrows that you may have lost because of different kinds of medical conditions or medications that you may be on. We can actually transplant hair into your eyebrows. So it doesn’t necessarily have to be someone that’s balding, or that has a really big problem with hair loss.

It can just be that you wanna restore some hair that has always been at a certain location that you started to even get weak from it, or the hair follicles themselves are starting to really go away from that area and you wanna just try to bring back new life to that zone.

So think about that when you’re looking in the mirror or in the shower, and you’re starting to notice that you’re seeing a lot of hair near the drain, we can talk about non-surgical ways of restoring your hair volume, or actually transplanting hair into an area where you used to have it and would love to have it again. So contact us at DavisCPS.com.

Dr. Steven Davis of Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in Cherry Hill, New Jersey wants to ensure the comfort of all patients, which begins with education. We hope our video series can provide useful information for those with upcoming appointments or interested in the behind-the-scenes action of plastic surgery.

If you want more content in audio format, please check out The Plastic Surgery Revolution. Also, check out Dr. Steven Davis on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter!