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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 …

January 24, 2020

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) …

January 24, 2020

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 …

January 24, 2020

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 …

January 24, 2020

I was born in 1968 and thus old enough to remember Tupperware and Tupperware parties. While taken for granted today, Earl Tupper’s patented plastic containers with their airtight seal revolutionized food storage. More importantly, Tupperware pioneered the use of “direct marketing” memorialized by the “Tupperware party.” The concept was simple. Invite friends, family, and neighbors …