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The New Facelift

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When you hear about a facelift, favorable reactions are not always met. It’s no secret that actors and actresses throughout the years have given this popular procedure a bad name. Although facelifts have remained trendy, we have noted a significant change in what patients expect as results. No longer do clients come in seeking to change their entire look. The new facelift is all about maintaining your facial characteristics while making slight adjustments to the various specifics you’d like altered.

When you come into New Jersey’s top plastic surgery center here in Cherry Hill, NJ, a pillar of our foundation is making sure your results are exactly what you expect. Too often, we hear from our fantastic clients that a complete facelift would alter their appearance too much. We’re excited to share with you all just how far this procedure has come!

Completely changing someone’s appearance isn’t what facelifts are about now. With the correct techniques involving minimally-invasive surgeries, we have the ability to improve aspects of your facial features.

Tune in to this week’s episode of The Plastic Surgery Revolution to learn more about the new facelift.

The revolution continues!

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Getting Serious About a Brazilian Butt Lift

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If you’re looking for a little (or a lot) more oomph from your backside, the Brazilian butt lift is a highly customizable procedure with a relatively minimal recovery period. That fat is liposuction-ed out of another area of concern to facilitate the whole thing creates a kind of two-for-one scenario, where you’re contouring one spot and gaining a shapelier butt in the process.

If you’re beginning to gravitate from simply Googling the procedure to seriously considering it, there are a few things (beyond reading this blog post) you’ll want to do to make sure you’re properly prepared, mentally and physically.

Schedule a consultation

First things first, schedule consultations with a couple board-certified plastic surgeons. Feel free to meet with as many as you can, but it’s important to have some basis for comparison. You’ll better appreciate the sometimes-slight variances in demeanor and styles that way. When you start your search, let experience be your preliminary filter. Any doctor who doesn’t list the Brazilian butt lift among the procedures they perform is likely ill-equipped to help you.

Dial in your diet

In the meantime, focus on eating a healthy, balanced diet, drinking lots of water, and cutting back on (or even temporarily eliminating altogether) alcohol and desserts. While the Brazilian butt lift does include liposuction, the surgery isn’t designed to be a weight-loss procedure. You’ll want to be within about 30 pounds of what you consider to be your target weight to best position yourself to achieve the results you desire. Eating healthy also supports a strong immune system, which is going to be an important ally in your recovery.

Go into vacation-prep mode

You know how before a big vacation you’ll spend a few days making sure everything’s in order so that you won’t have to think about anything later on? Approach your procedure with the same mindset. Get your prescriptions filled, shop for a week’s worth of groceries, and start drinking prune juice or taking stool softeners. (It’ll help with any constipation that the prescriptions may cause.) At the very least, it’s peace of mind. You’ll be able to go into your procedure knowing that you can fully focus on your recovery.

And don’t be shy about contacting your plastic surgeon before or after your procedure with any questions you may have. Google may seem like it has all the answers, but only your doctor has your best interest in mind.

Rundown of the New Davis CPS Patient Procedures

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Dr. Steven Davis and everybody else here at our Cherry Hill, New Jersey practice, are ecstatic to get back into the swing of things! If you’ve been following along with “The Plastic Surgery Revolution,” you know we have been making significant changes to our office.

Keep in mind the upgrades don’t stop at our refreshed interior design. Brand new procedures have been put in place to ensure the safety of both patients and our employees. To learn all about our new patient procedures, tune in to this week’s brief episode. 

The rundown of the new Davis CPS patient procedures include:

  • You will wait in your car once you arrive at our office. We will have a texting system set up for you to stay in contact with us and know exactly when you should proceed inside.
  • Once inside, you’ll head to our renovated testing room to ensure additional safety measures.
  • After clearing testing, there will be a sterilized room ready for you.
  • Gowns/masks/gloves will be available.
  • Dr. Davis will be masked and shielded to keep you as comfortable and as safe as possible.

Are you interested in learning more about our industry-leading patient procedures? Give us a buzz today!

[Transcript]

Hi, everyone. Some really quick bullet points about what’s gonna happen when you come into the office. The first thing is we’re gonna have you waiting in your car.

We’re gonna have a whole texting system setup. Once you come in, we’ve kind of transferred one of our offices into a testing station for your temperature, and just to make sure that everything is safe for you to progress into the office.

Once that happens, we’re gonna have rooms ready for you. And once you get in the room, we’re gonna have that all fitted out for you, either getting in a gown, having gloves on, having a mask on. And the exciting part of it all, it’s all gonna take place within our newly-renovated exam rooms.

So you’re really not gonna have to go through the office to do anything else besides getting into that exam room and having everything done right from there. So stay tuned, and I’m looking forward to seeing you.

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.

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Preparing for a Breast Augmentation Consultation: Silicone vs. Saline Implants

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More than 310,000 breast augmentations were done in 2018, the most recent year for which data is available. That’s enough to make it the most widely performed cosmetic surgery in the United States by a pretty wide margin. (Liposuction is the runner-up, at nearly 260,000 procedures, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgery.)

Still, for all that appeal—not to mention, mainstream acceptance—women tend to arrive for their consultations under-informed and surprised by the nuances of the procedure. So, over the next couple of posts, I’ll be taking a closer look some key aspects that, hopefully, will aid the decision-making process for anyone considering breast augmentation. We’ll start here with the different types of breast implants.

Why silicone

Basically, there are two kinds of breast implants: silicone and saline. Each has its own set of benefits and drawbacks. I’ll start with silicone because it’s the most popular. According to one recent estimate, silicone breast implants were used in 70% of the breast augmentations performed in the US.

While their potential for ruptures is well-known at this point—the risk is relatively minimal, though it’s recommended that MRIs are done roughly every couple of years for the life of the implant in an effort to detect leaks at their onset—silicone implants have become increasingly popular in recent years as the prevailing preference has gradually shifted from dramatic outcomes (think Baywatch in the nineties) to subtle, natural-looking enhancements. Of the two types, silicone implants are the softest and feel most like natural breast tissue. They’re also available in both round and teardrop shapes.

Highly-cohesive silicone implants are different from the standard kind in that the silicone gel has a thicker consistency, which makes them firmer to the touch. But they’ve also proven to hold up better and be less susceptible to rupturing.

Why saline

Saline implants are filled with sterile saltwater, which means, if they should ever rupture, the implants’ contents will be absorbed by the body without any ill effects.

Beyond the safety aspect, saline implants are favored by women who prioritize upper pole fullness and projection with their new breasts. In other words, they prefer a dramatic result to a subtle enhancement. Keep in mind, saline implants are heavier than silicone, which may cause the breasts to become bottom-heavy over time.

And because they’re not prefilled, unlike silicone implants, a smaller incision may be warranted. There is, however, some additional risk with this particular type of incision. With silicone implants, the incision is larger, but it’s hidden in the breast crease, which is considered optimal not only for aesthetic purposes but also because it affords the surgeon prime access to the breast pocket.

Finally, if cost is a consideration, saline implants are generally the less expensive option.

In my next post, I’ll go a bit deeper into implant shapes and outline some of the thinking that’s involved in positioning the implants.