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11/01/2021

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🔥 𝖠𝗇𝖽𝖺 𝖺𝗄𝖺𝗇 𝗆𝖾𝗇𝖼𝖺𝗉𝖺𝗂 𝗁𝖺𝗌𝗂𝗅 𝗒𝖺𝗇𝗀 𝖽𝗂𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗂𝗇𝗄𝖺𝗇 𝗍𝖺𝗇𝗉𝖺 𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗀𝖺𝗅𝗄𝖺𝗇 𝗋𝗎𝗆𝖺𝗁
📅 𝟦 𝗁𝖺𝗋𝗂 𝗌𝖾𝗍𝖾𝗅𝖺𝗁 𝖽𝗂𝗆𝗎𝗅𝖺𝗂, 𝖠𝗇𝖽𝖺 𝖺𝗄𝖺𝗇 𝗆𝖾𝗅𝗂𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗁𝖺𝗌𝗂𝗅 𝗒𝖺𝗇𝗀 𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗍𝖺𝗆𝖺
👇 𝖪𝗅𝗂𝗄 𝗍𝗈𝗆𝖻𝗈𝗅 "𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧" 𝗎𝗇𝗍𝗎𝗄 𝗆𝖾𝗅𝗂𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗂𝗇𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗎𝗄𝗌𝗂

10/28/2021

Start SculpSure® Treatment Today and Have the Shape You Always Wanted by Beach Season
Are you trying to lose weight? It’s not an easy task — especially in winter. Your body temperature drops in cold weather, which may prompt you to eat more. Also, calories warm up your body, so it’s natural to want to eat more when it’s cold.

You may have gone on the after-holiday diet and are at or near your normal weight, but trouble spots persist. Maybe you still have a slight belly bulge even after weeks of exercise at the gym. When you’re wearing a tight turtleneck, do you have telltale bulges sticking out of your jeans on each side of your waist?

If you have areas of excess fat even though you’re near your normal weight, maybe it’s time to give your system some extra help with a SculpSure® body contouring treatment. Start now and be ready for beach season this summer.

SculpSure can treat the following target areas to eliminate unwanted fat:

Abdomen (that belly bulge)
Flanks (excess fat at waist level, known as a “muffin top”)
Back
Thighs
Chin (excess fat under the chin)
SculpSure is one of the leading body contouring systems on the market today. Its popularity remains steady with both men and women because it works and it’s safe. SculpSure is FDA-cleared to eliminate up to 24% of the fat on your treated areas.

Eliminating 24% of excess fat without “going under the knife” is an impressive result for a noninvasive, nonsurgical procedure.

How does the SculpSure system accomplish it?
SculpSure uses patented laser technology. The laser’s heat disrupts fat cells deep within your skin. The laser compromises the structure of the cells, and eventually they disintegrate. Your body disposes of them over a number of weeks through your lymphatic system in a natural process.

The laser’s heat also “wakes up” the cells in your skin’s outer layers and stimulates new collagen and elastin. Collagen is a key protein in your skin that keeps it smooth and soft. Elastin, also a protein, makes your skin bounce back to its normal position after it’s stretched or pulled.

Treatment with SculpSure
Dr. Fodero consults with you and lets you know if you’re a good candidate for SculpSure. A SculpSure treatment is quick and easy. You lie on a comfortable table and relax; Northeastern Plastic Surgery’s trained staff does all the work. You can enjoy music or a podcast during the procedure, or simply rest.

A handheld device containing a laser is placed over the area to be treated. The laser is connected to a computer, which controls its function and ensures that you get exactly the right amount of the laser’s energy.

The system has a cooling mechanism so your body doesn’t get too warm during the procedure. You’ll feel both cool and warm sensations during the treatment.

In just 25 minutes, it’s all over. It’s an in-and-out procedure, so you can go right back to your daily activities. And winter is a perfect time for SculpSure treatment, because you’ll start to see results in about six weeks, and you’ll enjoy the “final product” at 12 weeks, in plenty of time for summer.

Advantages of SculpSure’s body contouring system
SculpSure’s system has many advantages over other methods of body contouring.

Nonsurgical
You avoid the risks of surgery with a SculpSure treatment. There are no incisions, so no blood or bandages, either.

Minimal discomfort
Some body contouring systems pull or tug on the skin. There’s no pulling or tugging with SculpSure; there’s very little if any discomfort.

Treat more than one trouble spot simultaneously
The SculpSure system can work on more than one area of your body during a treatment. It has applicators designed for specific areas.

No recovery time needed
Rather than experience painful surgery with a recovery period that can last for weeks, you can resume normal daily activity after the SculpSure procedure.

Patient satisfaction
Results are in. The patient satisfaction rate is very high; 90% of patients are happy with their results.

10/28/2021

Getting Sleep After Facial Plastic Surgery
If you’re scheduled for facial plastic surgery, congratulations on taking this step to help you look as young as you feel. Plastic surgery is the gold standard for a facial transformation; it smooths away wrinkles, fine lines, brow furrows, and sagging cheeks. As with any surgical procedure, post-operative care is extremely important in minimizing complications and maximizing desired results.

You have an important part to play in the success of your facial plastic surgery. Following post-op guidelines is critical to the success of the operation.

Sleeping position post-surgery
Sleep is important — especially after surgery. Sleep actually helps heal wounds; during sleep, your cells are in repair mode.

Sleeping after facial plastic surgery involves special procedures to protect the delicate skin tissue disturbed by the operation.

Head above heart
Your head must be elevated above your heart at all times for the first few weeks after facial plastic surgery. You can accomplish this in a number of ways. First, you can put a wedge under your mattress to elevate it. Along with a large pillow, you’re in the correct sleep position. If the wedge doesn’t work for you, try using two or three pillows to elevate your head. You can also use a U-shaped travel pillow along with your regular pillow.

Another alternative is sleeping in a comfortable recliner. You may already snooze now and then in your recliner, so this transition may be one of your best options.

Sleep on your back
If you’re already a back sleeper, you’re a step ahead. If you’re a side sleeper or sleep on your stomach, it’s important to realize before the operation that you need to adjust your sleeping position after the surgery. Why is this necessary? You have stitches under the skin on your face. Facial skin is delicate, and after surgery, it’s even moreso.

If you do roll onto your face at night, the friction from this movement can aggravate your healing tissue. This can cause added swelling, possible bleeding and damage to the sutures. If you are a side sleeper, you may find that one side of your face will be more swollen than the other. This is because when you sleep on one side versus the other, the fluid pools on that side, causing you to be more swollen. Your plastic surgeon has taken great care to give you the best results.

Below are some ways to help you achieve these results.

How to prevent rolling from side to side post-op
If you don’t usually sleep on your back, start practicing the new position about a month before your procedure. You may find it strange and even discomfiting at first, but as you continue practicing, your body adjusts. You may find that this becomes your permanent sleep position. Sleeping on your back avoids your face being crushed into your pillow, which can leave you with lines in your face when you wake up.

In addition to a wedge or extra pillows under your head, try placing extra pillows or backrests on both sides of your head to stop you from rolling to the side. If this doesn’t work, a back-sleeper pillow with a hollow center that keeps your head in one place is a good option; look online for these special pillows.

You can place a sloped knee-lift pillow under both legs at night to prevent turning over. Extra pillows around your body may also help.

10/28/2021

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🔥𝖧𝗈𝗅𝖾𝗇 𝖲𝗂𝖾 𝗌𝗂𝖼𝗁 𝖨𝗁𝗋𝖾 𝖳𝗋𝖺𝗎𝗆𝖿𝗂𝗀𝗎𝗋 𝗂𝗇𝗇𝗈𝗏𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗏 𝗎𝗇𝖽 𝖻𝖾𝗊𝗎𝖾𝗆 𝗏𝗈𝗇 𝗓𝗎 𝖧𝖺𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝖺𝗎𝗌.
⏱𝟥 𝖳𝖺𝗀𝖾 𝗇𝖺𝖼𝗁 𝖽𝖾𝗋 𝖾𝗋𝗌𝗍𝖾𝗇 𝖣𝗈𝗌𝗂𝗌 𝗌𝖾𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝖲𝗂𝖾 𝖽𝗂𝖾 𝖾𝗋𝗌𝗍𝖾𝗇 𝖤𝗋𝗀𝖾𝖻𝗇𝗂𝗌𝗌𝖾
👇𝖪𝗅𝗂𝖼𝗄𝖾𝗇 𝖲𝗂𝖾 𝖺𝗎𝖿 𝖽𝗂𝖾 𝖲𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗅𝗍𝖿𝗅ä𝖼𝗁𝖾 [𝖣𝖾𝗍𝖺𝗂𝗅], 𝗎𝗆 𝗐𝖾𝗂𝗍𝖾𝗋𝖾 𝖨𝗇𝖿𝗈𝗋𝗆𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗇 𝗓𝗎 𝖾𝗋𝗁𝖺𝗅𝗍𝖾𝗇.

10/28/2021

Brow Lift or Eyelid Lift: Which is Right for Me?
Droopy, baggy, and wrinkled skin around your eyes can make you look exhausted even after a good night’s sleep. And hooded eyes can reduce your field of vision – especially your peripheral vision – and cause eye fatigue.
What is a brow lift?

As you age, the skin on your forehead loses elasticity, causing wrinkles and furrows. This loss of skin elasticity also allows your eyebrows to drift closer to your eyes, making you look angry and tired even if you're happy and rested.

A brow lift, also called a forehead lift, is a cosmetic procedure during which Dr. Fodero makes small incisions above your brow (they’re hidden in the hairline) to lift and tighten your skin and reposition the underlying muscles and tissue. Brow lifts reposition drifting brows, which removes eyelid hooding, improves frown lines, and generally makes your face look younger and happier.

The outpatient procedure is typically conducted under general anesthesia or sedation with local anesthesia. After the surgery, you may experience swelling, bruising, tightness, and slight discomfort. Most swelling and bruising resolves within two weeks.

What’s an eyelid lift?

An eyelid lift, also known as blepharoplasty, is a delicate surgery that removes skin and fatty tissue from your upper eyelids. The scar rests in your eyelid crease and virtually disappears during healing, which takes a week or two. The result is a more open eye and youthful look.

This outpatient procedure is typically conducted under either local anesthesia or light, intravenous sedation. Dr. Fodero cuts along the eyelid fold, remove skin, muscle, and maybe fat, then sutures the cut closed.

After surgery, patients typically experience pain, swelling or blurred vision because of ointments, and puffy and numb eyelids. To help reduce swelling and discomfort, you should frequently apply ice packs the night after surgery.

Bruising and swelling usually subside within two weeks.

Which procedure is right for you?

Brow lift? Eyelid lift? Both? You make this big decision with Dr. Fodero, who considers several factors.

For example, eyelid lifts are most successful if your brows rest in the correct place but your eyelids sag.

Brow lifts are good options if your eyes have become hooded because your brows are heavy and sagging. The skin over your eyes droops and may even rest on your eyelashes. This procedure is appropriate if you have already undergone eyelid lifts but still have hooding.

Brow lifts paired with eyelid lifts brighten your face by repositioning sagging brows and removing heavy, fatty eyelids.

10/28/2021

What’s the Best Age to Have a Face-lift?
As people age, their skin can begin to lose its elasticity. On your face, aging and a loss of muscle tone can lead to unsightly sagging, wrinkles, loose skin, and fold lines.

A surgical procedure known as a face-lift (or rhytidectomy) can improve some signs of aging in your facial skin.
If you’re considering a face-lift, you may wonder about the best age to have face-lift surgery. Take a moment to learn Dr. Fodero’s opinion on this important question.

Benefits of a face-lift
During a face-lift, Dr. Fodero can help you look younger by performing surgical procedures that smooth folds and wrinkles, eliminate lines in your face, and tighten sagging facial muscles.

Dr. Fodero can also lift layers of skin and remove excess skin and fat to create a more youthful, attractive appearance.

He can perform face-lift surgery by itself, or in conjunction with eyelid surgery or a brow lift.

Best age for a face-lift
Adults can have a face-lift at any age. However, the optimal age for a face-lift is about 45. At this point, your skin still has enough elasticity to respond well to surgery. But in most people, the skin aging process is really just getting started.

Whatever your age, you must be in satisfactory health for Dr. Fodero to consider you a good candidate for plastic surgery.

The timing of a face-lift also depends on the extent of your skin’s aging. Heredity, sun exposure, smoking history, stress, your weight and nutritional choices are among the factors that can contribute to early aging of your skin.

Some patients have a first face-lift in their 40s or 50s and decide to have additional surgeries or procedures later in life. They’re so satisfied with the results of plastic surgery that they come back for more to deal with later signs of aging.

Age-related health considerations
Another consideration of when to have a face-lift is age-related health issues. The best candidates for cosmetic surgery are those who are in good health, as noted, and those who don’t have medical conditions that might interfere with healing, such as diabetes, coronary artery disease, or vascular disease.

Learn more about your face-lift options
If you’re interested in younger-looking skin and a more youthful appearance, Dr. Fodero and his care team at Our Plastic Surgery are happy to meet with you to discuss your options. Call our office for an appointment, or request one here on our website.

10/28/2021

How to Get Rid of Excess Skin After Massive Weight Loss
After a massive weight loss, you should be celebrating your accomplishments and reveling in your improved health and new appearance. Instead, many people are still carrying the physical and emotional baggage of being overweight or obese in the form of excess skin. If you have this problem, you know it may be hard to fit into clothes properly, and you may want to hide from embarrassment. It can really take a toll on your self-esteem, too.
What causes excess skin after weight loss?
When you’re overweight or obese, your skin stretches to accommodate your larger size. Your skin also loses elasticity over time as collagen and elastin break down, which is part of the normal aging process. When you lose weight, your skin contracts, but it may not be able to do it fast enough, leaving you with excess, saggy skin.

Surgical procedures
The only way to get rid of extra skin all over your body is with cosmetic surgery and body contouring procedures. It’s best to wait about six months after your weight loss to give your body a chance to stabilize before coming in for cosmetic surgery. You should also be in good health and be a non-smoker. Learn more about these procedures and decide which option is right for you.

Tummy tuck
A tummy tuck is one of the most requested cosmetic procedures. During this surgery, your excess abdominal skin is removed, and your remaining skin is gently pulled back together for a flat, yet natural look. Your belly button remains attached to your abdominal wall the whole time. After the skin is repositioned, it’s popped through a small incision and rests at that new location.

Breast lift
Are your breasts sagging after weight loss? During this procedure, the extra breast skin is removed, and the ni***es and breast tissue are raised. You could also opt for breast implants if you want larger breasts.

Arm lift
You know you have muscles under there, but you can’t see them because of the loose skin. Stop the arm jiggle with an arm lift that removes any fat and excess skin.

Thigh and buttock lifts
No one wants all that extra skin around their bum, making it hard to fit into shorts and skinny jeans. We can also remove any excess skin around the thighs, too, to give you a more toned look.

Considerations
You can combine procedures for an upper-body lift or a lower-body lift. These surgeries are more involved and have longer recovery times. You may even need to stay overnight in a hospital so we can monitor you and provide medications to manage pain and prevent infection. During your consultation, Dr. Fodero will let you know what to expect from each procedure and answer all your questions.

Body contouring with fat removal
We also offer liposuction and SculpSure® to complement your surgery. For example, if you have extra fat around your abdomen after weight loss, it can be removed with liposuction. Liposuction uses a vacuum-like device to suck out the fat. This will help you look even better after a tummy tuck. Or, if you get surgery in one area but want a touch up in another area, you can get SculpSure, a noninvasive treatment that melts away fat cells under the skin’s surface. The fat cells are removed naturally through the body’s normal processes of elimination.

10/28/2021

Contouring Through Fat Transfer — The Best of Both Worlds
Achieving your perfect figure is hard work. Even when we exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet, most of us still have stubborn parts of our body that refuse to change.
What is body contouring?
When you’ve lost significant amounts of weight, your body has changed after giving birth, or you simply have areas of your body that aren’t responding to a healthy lifestyle, body contouring helps you attain your perfect shape. To contour your stomach, arms, buttocks, or entire body, Dr. Fodero uses modern surgical techniques to reshape the area and remove excess fat and loose skin.

To realize your body’s best look, Dr. Fodero plans a customized surgery that can involve procedures, such as liposuction, lower body surgery, and a tummy tuck. Before surgery, Dr. Fodero determines the best combination of procedures based on your body goals and needs.

What is fat transfer?
Similarly to body contouring, fat transfer helps enhance, sculpt, and soften areas of the body. Under anesthesia, Dr. Fodero harvests fat cells from one area of your body, and after a purification process, injects them into another part of your body.

Fat transfer can be done in various areas of your body, enhancing features, such as your breasts, buttocks, and face. Additionally, Dr. Fodero often performs a fat transfer using procedures, such as liposuction, as part of your body contouring surgery.

Why is contouring through fat transfer an ideal body sculpting solution?
Dr. Fodero often recommends combining body contouring and fat transfer procedures by contouring your body by using a transfer of fat cells. By performing these surgeries together, Dr. Fodero offers patients a body shaping solution providing the benefits from both procedures.

In a typical body contouring procedure involving fat transfer, Dr. Fodero performs a fat removal procedure, such as liposuction to remove fat, before contouring another part of your body using your own fat tissue. Here are the benefits of undergoing body contouring through fat transfer.

It’s a minimally invasive procedure with minimal scarring
Fat removal is minimally invasive, using tiny, discreet incisions that are nearly impossible to see to remove the fat, followed by doing a simple injection to transfer your fat to another part of your body. Typically, Dr. Fodero can do both treatments at once, and you recover quickly, usually within a few days.

You achieve multiple benefits at the same time
If you’ve been hoping to reduce fat in one part of your body while adding contouring or fullness to another, body contouring through fat transfer will give you both results at the same time. Dr. Fodero can perform liposuction to remove fat from a part of the body you’d like to look smaller, while injecting the fat elsewhere, giving it a fuller or more sculpted appearance.

Your procedure offers long-term results and is unique to you
Because every patient has different needs, Dr. Fodero designs your fat transfer and contouring procedures based on a personalized consultation. Your unique procedure is long-lasting, without the need for follow-up surgeries or treatments, offering the specific results you wish for long term.

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