Mt Vernon - Cosmetic Surgeons

After child birth or drastic weight loss, many women suffer from stretch marks. There are a great deal of lotions and ‘home remedies’ available – such as Aloe Vera gel and vitamin E creams. However, if you are looking for the most effective way to get your skin back to its natural look, you should consider going for a laser treatment.

Laser treatments for stretch marks are offered for a low price by almost every cosmetic clinic.  It is a very effective way to permanently remove the signs of stretch marks. More importantly, it does not have any of the side effects that other skin treatments do. It is a painless, non-invasive procedure that may be completed in a couple of visits to your cosmetic surgeon.

Summer time is particularly awkward for people with deformities and illness with their feet. Wearing flip-flops and sandals can become an embarrassing experience – and sometimes a painful one.

The following are the most common types of podiatric surgery that are performed either for cosmetic reasons or for restorative purposes:

Bunion surgery, or bunionectomy – A bunion is a bump protruding at the side of the base of the big toe. This bump is the result of the big toe’s joint angling towards the second toe. This may cause a person pain and discomfort as the joint becomes swollen should the bunion worsen. A bunion surgery removes the protruding bump by extracting a piece of bone from the big toe’s joint. This will stop the big toe from angling further towards the second toe.

Hammertoes – a hammertoe is a deformity of the toes’ joints. It makes the toes look like claws. Needless to say, this affects how shoes fit. This can also keep the person from walking comfortably as it reduces the functionality of the toes for balancing. A restorative foot surgery is now available to treat this deformity.

Tailor’s bunions – there is also a kind of buniondectomy which gets rid of lumps that form on the side of the pinky toe. When a person wears tight-fitting shoes, the pinky toe often develops such lumps or calluses. These calluses can add to the pinky toe’s bulge and make it look pudgy.

Toe tuck – most women have problems fitting into their high heels because of the pinky toe. Often a shoe feel to tight as the pinky toe is jammed into the sides of the shoe. A kind of cosmetic foot surgery called the toe tuck solves this problem by slimming down the pinky toe.

Toe shortening – this podiatric surgery is another one for cosmetics. Most people are bothered with having a second toe that is taller than the big toe. Women find this bothersome as a lengthy second toe often protrudes when they wear peep-to shoes. With this procedure, the length of the second toe can be reduced. The surgeon does this by removing a piece of bone from the second toe. A pin is inserted to act as a joint connecting the remaining pieces of bone.

Foot facelift – this foot surgery is often a combination of the aforementioned procedures. Basically, its aim is to slim down the patient’s foot so that it fits better into stylish shoes.

A rhinoplasty nose job always used to be about a surgical procedure in which a bit of cartilage was removed or added or both, depending on the surgical goals.

These days, nose reshaping has come to mean something different. While nose reshaping surgery still applies to the same old rhinoplasty nose job, the term nose reshaping now includes a number of non-surgical approaches such as injection rhinoplasty or botulinum toxin injection.

Injection rhinoplasty makes use of dermal fillers that are commonly used to treat fine lines and wrinkles.

If you would like to regain a chest more reminiscent of your youth, you may want to consider breast lift surgery. Breast lift surgery, technically known as mastopexy, is the process of removing excess skin from the breasts to raise them up, shrink the areola if necessary, and produce younger, firmer looking breasts. This can be a great solution for those who have sagging, flatter, or drooping breasts. It can also be helpful to those whose nipples point downward or whose areolas have been stretched out over time. The basic requirements for the surgery only include being physically healthy, being a nonsmoker, keeping a steady weight, and having realistic expectations about the results.

Most bariatric supplements that are added to the bariatric surgery diet include minerals, vitamins and meal replacements. These bariatric supplements are especially important since a patient who has just undergone bariatric surgery has to take small portions of foods. Small food portions more often than not mean less vitamins and minerals. Bariatric surgery diets often contain high protein levels and a lot of fibre and all these limit the amount of food one can eat after having the size of the gastrointestinal tract reduced. Bariatric Food Products have started a new line of bariatric supplements to make their Bariatric surgery diet whole.