Procedures

Select a procedure to learn when a procedure can help, how it's performed and what results you can expect so you can make a well-informed decision.

For more information, ask our staff about brochures, videotapes and booklets on specific procedures. Since circumstances vary with every person, feel free to discuss your concerns directly with our surgeons.

Facelift

As people age, the effects of gravity, exposure to the sun and stress register in their faces. Deep creases form between the nose and mouth. The jawline grows slack and jowly. Folds and fat deposits appear around the neck.

Forehead/Brow Lift

A forehead lift or "browlift" is a procedure that restores a more youthful, refreshed look to the area above the eyes. The procedure corrects drooping brows and improves the horizontal lines and furrows that can make a person appear angry, sad or tired.

Ear Surgery

Ear surgery, or otoplasty, is done to set prominent ears back closer to the head or to reduce the size of large ears.

Eyelid Surgery

Eyelid surgery, technically called blepharoplasty, is a procedure to remove fat, excess skin and muscle from the upper and lower eyelids. Eyelid surgery can correct drooping upper lids and puffy bags below your eyes--features that make you look older and more tired and may even interfere with your vision. However, it won't remove crow's feet or other wrinkles, eliminate dark circles under your eyes, or lift sagging eyebrows. While it can add an upper eyelid crease to Asian eyes, it will not erase evidence of your ethnic or racial heritage. Eyelid surgery can be done alone or in conjunction with other facial surgery procedures such as a facelift or browlift.

Nose Surgery

Rhinoplasty, surgery to reshape the nose, is one of the most common of all plastic surgery procedures. Rhinoplasty can reduce or increase the size of your nose, change the shape of the tip or the bridge, narrow the span of the nostrils, or change the angle between your nose and your upper lip. It also may correct a birth defect or injury, or help relieve some breathing problems.

Cleft Lip and Palate

In the early weeks of development, long before a child is born, the right and left sides of the lip and the roof of the mouth normally grow together. In about one of every 800 babies, those sections don't quite meet. A child born with a separation in the upper lip is said to have a "cleft lip." A similar birth defect in the roof of the mouth, or palate, is called a "cleft palate." Since the lip and the palate develop separately, it is possible for a child to have a cleft lip, a cleft palate, or variations of both.