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Free Skin Cancer Screen Month May FREE, FREE, FREE!! Who doesn’t like something for FREE?Every May, the Academy of Dermatology sponsors a FREE skin cancer screening program across the United States. Because I spent the early part of my nursing career working in dermatology, I am addressing one of my passions in this blog…fighting skin […]

I have been excited by the possibilities of radiofrequency energy and its ability to produce changes in fat and skin tightening for several years. The technology has been around for a while and we’ve had a radiofrequency unit since 1996. But the science and technology of radiofrequency surgery has evolved in the past 18 years […]

It was the subject of a book by Nora Ephron. “I hate my neck” is a statement that we hear in our office at least 12 times in any given week. Men and women are bothered by the sagging muscles, the loose skin, and the deposits of fat that accumulate in the neck that in […]

Imagine this—you walk into a room, let’s say a party. You’re meeting old friends, mixed with new, interesting people that you’d like to make a favorable impression upon. Do you want them to know that you’ve had cosmetic surgery? My guess is no. You want them to believe that the forces of nature all conspired […]

What do we all want? Watching the Oscars with my family, few of which have seen any of the films that were even nominated this year, it became clear to me: We all want a glimpse of what it would be like to be there, each of those stars looking unbelievably amazing, each star illuminating […]

I see at least four patients a week, and consult with another few every week via the Internet who, for reasons mysterious to them, have developed “festoons”. These bags on bags, usually seen under the eyes in patients that either have thyroid eye problems, malnourishment, kidney problems, tumors or advanced aging issues, are occurring in […]