Sometimes less volume is a good thing, like when your son is playing his new favorite metal CD. But when it comes to your cheeks, a loss of volume can leave them looking hollow and ghostly. Collagen is the thing. It’s the protein whose job it is to provide support to the skin. Without it, […]
One of the first areas to show aging is the neck. While this seems counterintuitive, the neck shows deep creases and muscle bands before the rest of the face starts to really show its age. To address these issues, Dr. Lavey performs a neck lift. What can a neck lift do? A neck lift can […]
Due to Americans love of nacho cheese Doritos, we keep getting fatter and fatter. This being the case, there are also growing fat pockets on many people that don’t respond to cutting back on the Doritos or exercise. No wonder liposuction is the most popular cosmetic surgery most years in this country. It’s been around […]
If you’ve lost lots of weight or are simply getting older, you may notice an interesting predicament when you see your back in the mirror when getting out of the shower. There are rolls or bulges of loose skin through your middle and upper back. What the? Come on, while everything else sags, the back […]
When you see various celebrities, many of them have full, sensual lips, and you may look at your lips in comparison and feel they are lacking. Maybe they’re thin. Maybe they’re uneven. Maybe they have lots of tiny wrinkles around them. Whatever the issue, you can have lips like a celebrity thanks to a variety […]
Everything sags/drops/droops/falls/descends/is on the floor as we age. That stinks! Gravity, while nice for keeping us from being pulled up into the vacuum of space, has its serious downside when you subject the skin and underlying support tissues to its pull day in and day out. When your forehead descends, people can take one look […]
If you’re looking for a non-invasive, non-ablative way to get rid of unwanted hair and skin spots, you simply need to get intense — Intense Pulsed Light. Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) is offered by Dr. Lavey with different light wavelengths to treat different skin conditions. What is IPL and what does it work on? Also […]
Once we get to a certain age, we all have them — those twisty, purple, blue, or red veins showing themselves under our skin on our legs, chest, and face. Their twisting path is the root of their name, not some comic book dude who was bitten by a radioactive spider. Spider veins, while not […]
Falsehoods. Wives’ tales. Myths. Fabrications. Over exaggerations. Whatever you call them, they’re out there. Plastic surgery has its own fair share. Even the term “plastic” in plastic surgery is misunderstood. People think plastic is meant to be fake, akin to the material plastic. But in reality, the word plastic in plastic surgery comes from the […]
As we age or lose large amounts of weight our skin sometimes doesn’t get the memo to tighten up the ship! It becomes saggy, loose, and downright uncooperative. In many cases, even being under the sadistic care of a personal trainer whipping you into shape daily can’t address this loose skin. The result? A person […]
