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Tummy Tuck

June 15, 2021

You Have Options with Tummy Tuck Surgery

If you’ve had children or lost a good deal of weight, odds are your abdomen isn’t what it once was. Loose skin and a little pooch — that’s the usual condition. Why? Because when the skin and connective tissue beneath is stretched, due to pregnancy or weight gain, it can only maintain its ability to …

Breast Augmentation

May 15, 2021

Augmenting Your Breasts with Your Own Fat

Breast augmentation with implants has been the most popular cosmetic surgery in the United States for the past three years. It has long been in either the top or second position (trading off with liposuction), ever since the FDA verified the safety of silicone gel implants in 2006. But some women aren’t thrilled with the …

Brazilian Butt Lift

February 14, 2021

Want a Bigger Backside Post-Virus?

We’re all waiting for this dumb virus to move on and to go hang out with the Swine Flu, SARS, the Bird Flu, and all the others that have come and gone before it. At least the end is in sight. Speaking of ends, would you like a shapelier backside for the post-COVID beach and …

Liposuction

January 15, 2021

Give Unwanted Fat the Hoover Treatment

Whether you live in Charlotte or Charlevoix, odds are you have pockets of accumulated fat that is more stubborn than a 2-year-old throwing a tantrum in the cookie aisle of Harris Teeter. No matter what you do — a thousand crunches or submitting to the rice cake diet — the fat just keeps keepin’ on. …

Aesthetics

December 15, 2020

Providence Plastic Surgery Despite Being A Year to Forget, We Honor Our Top Patients

There isn’t a single person out there who will be sad when they take the 2020 calendar off the wall. It doesn’t deserve recycling; it deserves to be burned. We’re all looking forward to the New Year and an end to two things: this stubborn virus and the endless blather of the election. At Providence …

Aesthetics, Non Surgical Solutions

November 15, 2020

There Isn’t a Fountain of Youth, but There is an Art to Aging

Ponce de Leon was ahead of his time. Sure he, like all of his fellow explorers, had lots of sun damage on their faces from being out all day every day on the water. But he wasn’t OK with just looking like a leather armchair — he made it his life’s mission to find a …

Skin Center

October 30, 2020

October Trick or Treatment

At Providence, Dr. Gear and our whole team like to have special events most months. Sometimes the blogs announcing the month’s events cannot be posted in time to take advantage of everything, but we try and get the word out on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter feeds as well. So, what do we have going …

Brazilian Butt Lift

October 7, 2020

MY CRUSADE AGAINST THE DIAPER BUTT

Parents are all familiar with the dreaded “diaper butt”. It’s not an attractive sight. Imagine if you were an adult, and you spent thousands of dollars on liposuction and fat grafting of the buttocks or Brazilian Buttlifting (BBL) only to achieve a similar aesthetic. In BBL culture, a diaper butt is the pejorative term for …

Facials

September 15, 2020

September is for Mom at Providence

Being a Mom is tough work. You don’t have to tell that the woman in the candy aisle at Harris Teeter watching with a certain amount of detached disdain as her two-year-old rolls about on the floor in full tantrum mode after being denied the demanded box of Sour Patch Kids. And it’s tough on …

Liposuction

August 15, 2020

September Moms Are the Thing

At Providence Plastic Surgery & Skin Center, we like to celebrate different things every month because…why not? One month, it could be how to make your skin look its best with treatments like a HydraFacial MD. Another it’s body contouring. Another it’s Mom’s Morning Out. In line with that on September 12 we’re going to …