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Thigh Lift
Purpose: Improve thigh contours. Description: Excess skin and fat from the thigh area are removed to enhance lower body contours.
Breast Augmentation
Purpose: Increase breast size or restore volume. Description: Implants are placed under the breast tissue or chest muscles.
Body Contouring
Purpose: Reshape areas of the body. Description: Includes various procedures, such as liposuction and tummy tucks, to achieve desired body shape.
Rhinoplasty
Purpose: Reshape the nose to improve appearance or function. Description: Surgery may involve reshaping bone, cartilage, and skin.
Chin Augmentation
Purpose: Enhance the chin profile. Description: Implants are added or bone reshaped to create a stronger chin and more defined jawline.
Laser Hair Removal
Purpose: Remove unwanted hair. Description: Beams of highly concentrated light are used to selectively penetrate and destroy hair follicles.
Botox Injections
Purpose: Reduce facial wrinkles. Description: Botulinum toxin is injected to temporarily paralyze muscle activity and smooth lines.
Liposuction
Purpose: Remove fat from specific areas. Description: Fat is suctioned out through a small incision using a hollow instrument.
Gynecomastia Surgery
Purpose: Reduce enlarged male breasts. Description: Excess glandular tissue and fat are removed to flatten and enhance chest contours.
Blepharoplasty
Purpose: Improve the appearance of the eyelids. Description: Excess skin, fat, and muscle are removed from upper and lower eyelids.
Otoplasty
Purpose: Reshape or resize the ears. Description: Ear surgery can correct protruding or asymmetric ears, primarily for aesthetics.
Chemical Peel
Purpose: Improve skin texture and appearance. Description: A chemical solution causes exfoliation and eventually peels off, revealing new skin.
Genioplasty
Purpose: Reshape or augment the chin for facial balance. Description: This can involve cutting the chin bone or inserting an implant.
Vaginoplasty
Purpose: Tighten the vaginal canal. Description: Surgery to reconstruct or tighten the vaginal walls, often after childbirth.
Dermabrasion
Purpose: Smooth out skin. Description: A revolving instrument sands down the outer layers of skin to improve the look of scars, wrinkles, etc.
Breast Reduction
Purpose: Reduce breast size to alleviate discomfort. Description: Surgically removes excess breast fat, tissue, and skin to achieve a breast size in proportion with the body.
Arm Lift
Purpose: Reduce excess skin and fat between the underarm and elbow. Description: Procedure reshapes the arm to result in smoother skin and contours.
Scar Revision
Purpose: Improve the appearance of scars. Description: It involves altering the scar tissue by various invasive and non-invasive techniques.
Rhytidectomy
Purpose: Tighten and smooth the facial skin. Description: Commonly referred to as a facelift, it reduces the signs of aging.
Panniculectomy
Purpose: Remove hanging skin and fat. Description: Often after massive weight loss, the excess skin and fat that hangs over the abdomen is removed.
Forehead/Brow Lift
Purpose: Reduce forehead wrinkles, raise sagging brows. Description: Tissues are altered to smooth the forehead, raise eyebrows, and minimize frown lines.
Microdermabrasion
Purpose: Exfoliate the skin. Description: Tiny crystals are sprayed onto the skin to gently remove the outer layer, similar to a light abrasion.
Mastopexy
Purpose: Lift the breasts. Description: Known as a breast lift, it involves removing excess skin and tightening the surrounding tissue.
Rhinoplasty Revision
Purpose: Correct or improve the results of a previous nose job. Description: May involve additional sculpting or adding tissue.
Abdominoplasty
Purpose: Flatten the abdomen. Description: Excess skin and fat are removed, and muscles tightened, often called a tummy tuck.
Buttock Augmentation
Purpose: Enhance appearance of buttocks. Description: Involves the transfer of fat or the implantation of devices to create more fullness.
Buttock Lift
Purpose: Lift and tighten the buttocks. Description: Excess skin is removed and the surrounding tissue repositioned to create more toned buttocks.
Facelift
Purpose: Reduce signs of aging in the face and neck. Description: Skin is lifted, excess is removed, and underlying tissues are tightened.
Labiaplasty
Purpose: Reshape the labia minora or majora. Description: Excess skin and tissue are removed from the vaginal lips for cosmetic or medical reasons.
Hair Transplantation
Purpose: Restore hair growth. Description: Hair follicles are taken from a donor area and grafted onto the bald or thinning area.
Injectable Fillers
Purpose: Smooth wrinkles or enhance facial features. Description: Gels, such as hyaluronic acid, are injected to restore lost volume or create contour.
Fat Transfer
Purpose: Increase volume in certain body parts using the patient's own fat. Description: Fat is harvested from one part of the body, purified, and injected into another.
Neck Lift
Purpose: Tighten sagging neck tissues. Description: Procedures can include eliminating excess skin, tightening underlying muscles, and enhancing the jawline contour.
Laser Resurfacing
Purpose: Improve skin appearance. Description: Uses lasers to reduce wrinkles, sun damage, and scars by removing layers of skin.
Buttock Implants
Purpose: Enhance the size and shape of the buttocks. Description: Soft, silicone implants are surgically placed in the buttocks to add volume.
Keloid Removal
Purpose: Remove keloid scars. Description: Surgery, laser therapy, or steroid injections may reduce the overly aggressive healing response seen in keloids.
Calf Augmentation
Purpose: Enhance the size and shape of the calves. Description: Implants or fat grafting are used to increase the volume and definition of the calf muscles.
Zygomatic Bone Reduction
Purpose: Create a slimmer facial contour. Description: Surgery to reduce the cheekbone (zygomatic bone) for a less prominent cheek.
Belt Lipectomy
Purpose: Remove excess skin and fat from the torso. Description: A circumferential removal of skin and fat that results in a belt-like effect.
Hand Rejuvenation
Purpose: Improve the appearance of aging hands. Description: Procedures may include fat grafting, laser treatments, and chemical peels to restore volume and reduce age spots.
Gender Reassignment Surgery
Purpose: Align physical appearance with gender identity. Description: Procedures can reconstruct genitalia and other body features to the identified gender.
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