your health is important

Your health is very important. Whether you do cosmetic surgery like facelifts, breast surgery, liposuction, abdominoplasty or labiaplasty or even botox injections, or skin fillers, or fat injections, or laser treatments, if done by unqualified doctors, the complications are many and some cannot be fixed. You must chose the right qualified doctor to perform your procedure.  Surfing the internet alone will not sometimes give you the truth as the internet is not checked for accuracy.  It is like a giant yellow pages.  You must be sure your doctor is trained and qualified  by checking their board certification directly from the board office for that specialty. Do not take the chance on your health or quality of life.

We try to look young. We exercise, diet, eat healthy foods, color our hair if need to, buy makeup and all kinds of creams, buy skin care products, and if need to lift our breasts, faces, eyelids, foreheads, upper arms, thighs, abdomen, buttocks and mons pubis. However, we forget that our very bottoms, the place where our children come from, suffer the most changes of all. First of all being so dependent, gravity causes our muscular sling as well as our skin to sag in the perineal area more than anywhere else.  We constantly run around with filling our bladder and then emptying, so constantly undergoing weight bearing and then loss.  We empty our bowels hopefully daily again causing strain and pushing.  We carry full intestines for a while before emptying. Of course if we suffer from constipating or the opposite, an irritable bowel, imagine the number of times our musculature has to contract and relax.  The pushing and tenesmus alone cause great distention and dilitation.  Then try again thinking about delivery of babies. The head coming through the vaginal canal. The amount of stretch and distention that creates, never mind the weight that the bottom muscles have to carry during the pregnancy.  Then the muscles get cut more during the episiotomy and not always put together well.  I will stop here as my own bottom is beginning to ache.  So now, with all that going on -don’t you think some enhancement may be necessary?  How about the labia that get elongated, and the vagina that gets stretched and all the tags that are hanging around.  Thing about the varicosities created in your labia majora and do not forget your saggy mons pubis.

take care of your bottom

So if you want to look younger and feel better, you better look at your bottom and consider what rejuvenation that may need before you declare yourself done.

As we age not only does the skin becomes less elastic and thin, but our bony skeleton also becomes thinner and smaller. The fat “baby fat” disappears and it all results in hanging empty skin with less architectural aesthetics. The atrophy of the fat is addressed with fillers.  The skin thinness and lack of elasticity is addressed with various lifts whether face lift, abdominoplasty, breast lift or mons pubis lift.  Some require arm lifts, and thigh lifts as well.  In some areas the fat disappears more than others. For example how often we hear people say-”if I loose enough weight for my thighs to be thin my face becomes too gaunt”.. Therefore often we do liposuction on the thighs which stubbornly hold on to fat while our face looses it very quickly.  So now what about the shrinking skeleton. We all know that with age we get shorter. However, we also know that even tho we look better after a facelift the area around the mouth rarely improves. ASK DR. STEPHEN COLEN who is trained as a dentist as well as a plastic surgeon. He will be the firtst one to tell you that in order for the area around the mouth to improve very often one may need to do onlay grafts to fill out the bone area under the upper lip so that the lip will not hang like a curtain with pleats.  Only grafts could also be put under the base of the nasal vestibule so that the nose will not look too long and hooked as our face shrinks.  Often we hear people say -”she is so photogenic”. This is often said about models or actresses.  They usually have in common a squere and strong bone structure which we loose as we get older.  So there are many ways to look younger besides just lifts, skin fillers and botox.  ONLAY grafts can also be very necessary.

As we look at our bodies we realize that there is one dreaded thing missing from our closet. That is the corset. All women in years past realized that a flat tummy and uplifted breasts is sexy and desired.  The only way to achieve it then was to wear the corset and have someone tighten it till we could not breathe. Then came Coco Chanel and freed women from the dreaded corset. However, she forgot that not all women remain young childless and skinny. Coco had no children or pregnancies.  So the burning of the corset like burning of the bras was a symbol of freedom however, the beginning of prominent bellies, and saggy breast look.  So now what. Well if you want to continue to be free of the corset, and have the same look then the only thing to do is a breast uplift and a tummytuck.   Stenghthen the core in the gym helps a bit in the tummy department but the only thing that helps in the breast department is walking on your head.  In that case the corset is a better option.   The tummytuck brings the abdominal muscles together like a corset and the surgeon tightens them just like a corset to have the corset look without the corset wearing.  Freedom????or just a different way to stop breathing and holding it in.   We as women will never be FREE of wanting to look sexy. Flat stomach and uplifted breast is our desire and we will not be happy till we achieve it one way or another. So, what will it be for you-tummytuck or corset. Eventually you will choose one.  If you want to know more about those procedures call us to better understand the modern corset.