If a traditional full facelift is not the best option to achieve your goals, Fort Myers plastic surgeon Dr. Manuel Peña may recommend an alternative procedure better suited to your condition and desired results. Two popular alternate techniques include the “mid facelift” and “mini facelift.” The mid facelift surgery targets the skin around your eyes, […]
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What is a Facelift Meant to Do?
The term “facelift” can be deceiving: One word alone cannot describe every aspect of this effective facial cosmetic surgery procedure. Fort Myers plastic surgeon Dr. Manuel Peña believes each facelift should accomplish several aesthetic goals. Facelift procedures can alter the effects of years of stress, aging and damage from the sun and environment. Additionally, a […]
How Long do Liposuction Results Last?
While the body contouring technique called liposuction is used to remove fat cells from the human body, it should not be considered a primary weight-control method. Exercise and a healthy diet can be used in conjunction with liposuction to help achieve and preserve weight loss goals and body shape. The science behind liposuction is that […]
Chasing fat around the body!
A new study confirmed what I figured out 17 years ago. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20058860-10391704.html A patient that had liposuction in one part of the body returned two years later with excess bulge somewhere else. Three years later… she was back in my office wanting it sucked out from some where else. She told me "Doc, you are […]
Non Invasive Fat Reduction and Skin Tightening Heats Up
The ways to shrink your body without surgery keep increasing. There are Ultrasounds that melt or "burst" fat, there are Lasers that let your fat escape the cells, there are machines that freeze the fat and it dies and the body gets rid of it. I felt that I had to find the best technology […]
No Incision breast lift
Just back from a meeting in Miami where I waited for a presentation of a newly approved 'hammock' breast lift that when combined with breast augmentation or even explantation could lift the breast tissue without the need for further scars. The main accomplishment it achieved appeared to be to rotate the nipple upwards and give […]
Non invasive fat reduction and skin tightening using RF (Radiofrequency)
The verdict is in, the people want more cosmetic procedures and less surgical procedures, As Americans (and Europeans and Latin Americans and eventually Asians) age, they will seek more ways to turn back the hands of time without necessarily going "under the knife". We have seen an incredible rise in injectables (Botulism toxin and a […]
Radiofrequency Skin Tightening and Fat reduction
I have been following RF (radiofrequency) for skin tightening for many years. About a year before Thermage was approved I became interested in a "non-invasive" way to tighten skin. Sure we had peels and lasers.. but come on, they were not really "non- invasive". I went to a meeting in LA hoping to bring back […]
Facial bones shrink with age.
A new study reveals that art of our natural facial aging is that our facial bones actually get smaller particularly around the eye socket and jaw line. A detailed study comparing hundreds of CT scans of facial bones of men and women at different points intheir lives revealed that women start losing the bone volume […]
Prevention of the hard breast after breast augmentation
Our current theory on the main cause of capsular contracture (hardening of the breasts after breast augmentation) is that of a 'Biofilm' as a causative agent. This is a low population "infection" that hangs out on the surface of the implants and secretes a mucous layer that protects the bacteria from getting destroyed by the […]
