Body Contouring
Difference Between Body Contouring and Weight Loss
Weight loss is an incredibly common goal for many. Some studies estimate that 45 million Americans go on a diet each year. While more than half of them are women, men struggle to maintain their weight as well. This helps explain why weight loss is such big business. Annually, we spend about $33 billion…
How do You Know if You Need a Tummy Tuck?
The abdomen is a trouble spot for so many people. Sometimes, the issue is simply excess weight around the middle which may be alleviated with lifestyle changes such as a healthful diet and consistent exercise routine. More often than not for women, however, pooching in the abdomen is due to a number of factors…
Benefits of Combining CoolSculpting® with CoolTone™
An ideal body contour is all about proportion. This is why those stubborn pockets of fat can be so disruptive. The human eye likes harmony. So when the abdomen, for example, is a little too thick, it can distort your body balance, making you look and feel heavier than you are. When a patient…
New & Improved, Coolsculpting® Elite is Better
Coolsculpting®, a non-surgical body contouring device for removing unwanted pockets of fat, is one of the most popular procedures at my practice for both men and women. Around for over a decade, this extremely effective technology has recently undergone an upgrade. New and improved, Coolsculpting® Elite is better than the original Coolsculpting® Legacy….
Get Better Abs, Butt and Thighs without Surgery
The dream body contour for most men and women today is not one that’s super thin. Instead, it’s a body that looks fit, healthy and strong. However, attaining those 6-pack abs, for example, is hard. It requires diligence in terms of your diet as well as a significant amount of time logged in at…
The Plastic Surgery Channel has a new member!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Epstein has been invited to be a distinguished member of a very exciting, new authority and resource for patients in plastic surgery! The Plastic Surgery Channel’s goal is to educate, inform and influence the world of plastic surgery and it needs experts to do it! That’s…
Why Go Under the Knife when you don’t have to? And for what, breast implants???
Most people spend their lives trying to avoid surgery. So why do so many women seek surgery for something as totally unnecessary as breast implants? In Dr. Epstein’s practice, we see two types of women who seek breast augmentation. Both groups have one thing in common, they cannot fix what bothers them about their…
Incision Indecision – Which incision is best in Breast Augmentation?
Boy, have times changed in the incision decision department! When the FDA took the old silicone gels off the market in the 1990′s, we were forced into using nothing but saline implants for over 16 years. Saline implants come to the surgeon empty and are filled through a valve after they are placed (one…
Breast Augmentation and Cup Size – when should you buy new bras?
This question came in from a friend of one of our patients who had surgery with another surgeon – not Dr. Epstein, as he would never promise a patient a certain cup size! He does, however, listen carefully to the patient’s desires, which is often expressed in cup size, but helps them understand that…
Breast Augmentation and Exercise ~ the One Day Recovery Augmentation Effect
Deciding to have breast implants means deciding to have surgery. When you have surgery, there will be a few things that you cannot do as you would usually do for a little while and sometimes there will be things that change forever and therefore your life must change too. The degree to which your…
