Tummy Tuck

Last month, a Boca Raton planning board member floated the idea of selling naming rights and sponsorship deals for various city places, spaces and events. As a citizen, I'm slightly appalled and horrified by the notion that everything (and perhaps...

She was a self-described "cartoon," a zany housewife-turned-comedian with an electrified hairdo who broke into the male-dominated world of stand-up comedy in the 1950s with an outlandish wardrobe and a barrage of self-deprecating jokes punctuated by her...

Tanya Sij is like more than 230,000 women who've had tummy tucks over the past two years. She can count the reasons she had her surgery on one hand. "I've had five children and no amount of weight loss, setups, pushups, exercise would get rid of the...

It's a common refrain in Gia D'Anna's office: Extra inches that childbirth or time left around the middle are resisting diet and exercise. D'Anna is the office manager for a Lutherville plastic surgeon, and, as a mother, she sympathizes with the...

Covington based plastic surgeon, Dr. Elizabeth Kinsley, offers a personal approach to patient care. There are so many things to consider when making a decision as personal and permanent as getting plastic surgery. We understand the impact a particular...

1) Dr. Alfred Sofer (Plastic Surgery Center of Fairfield) No matter how you look, Dr. Alfred Sofer can make you look better. He uses the most advanced surgical (and non-surgical) techniques available in cosmetic surgery to augment or reconstruct breasts,...

In April, a research ship will begin surveying the Atlantic Ocean floor off of Nova Scotia as the first step to building, by 2013, a $300 million private fiber-optic line connecting New York and London financial markets so as to speed up current...

It's not true that only wealthy socialites have cosmetic surgery. In fact, the clientele of Aberdeen’s lone plastic surgeon includes a number of farm wives. Dr. Sanjay Mukerji said plastic and cosmetic surgery patients are often not people who are...

When Margaret first met her boyfriend, she weighed 105 pounds and wore short crop tops. But after 13 years together, the 55-year-old retiree from Torrance developed a "muffin top" that she just couldn't eliminate. So she did what so many other women do...

For the past few years, more and more people have become injected, implanted, tucked and tightened with everything from Botox and Liposuction to chin and cheek implants. But people aren't the only ones going under the knife.  Typically, if an animal is...

When Sandy Rosenblatt looked in the mirror, the striking brunette could see nothing but one big flaw — her eyes, which were sunken and seemed a little dark. So at 34 she had a plastic surgeon smooth them over. While she was there, she decided to...

Dr. Christopher Marek quietly defies the stereotypes of plastic surgeons. He doesn’t assume his vision of beauty is best or feel comfortable when patients ask him “What do I need to have done?” He’s taken his medical and...