Maximizing Recovery: How to Plan Time Off Work for Your Plastic Surgery
For any surgery, you’ll need time to recover. The same applies to cosmetic and plastic surgery. However, unlike non-elective surgeries, employers aren’t required to provide paid time off for you to recover. That said, you don’t want to rush recovery just to jump back to work. Instead, think of your plastic surgery strategically. If you…
Diva Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation
What is vaginal rejuvenation? Can it relieve Stress Urinary Incontinence? Do women want or need it? This year I was asked to sit on the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery’s light based energy panel. The panel reviews and examines existing and newly introduced laser and energy based devices for the society. One of the…
What’s Hot in 2016?
Happy New Year! Each year we like to take a look back at the year we are leaving behind and forward to the one ahead. Top surgical mainstays like breast augmentation and liposuction continue to top the list of most requested surgical procedures, but new procedures and products have made a splash in 2015. Which…
The Truth About Labiaplasty
Labiaplasty is growing in popularity nationwide. It offers patients suffering from enlarged or chronically irritated labia minora real and significant results with very little down time. Childbirth and the combined effects of age and gravity affect the vaginal structures. A long or irregular labia minora can become irritated during exercise or intercourse, and patients may feel…
Labiaplasty Technique
Twenty years ago you rarely heard about cosmetic labiaplasty. Today labiaplasty procedures have surged 44% just in the past year alone. According to an American Society of Plastic Surgery survey of 2014, labiaplasty is one of the fastest growing cosmetic procedures nationwide. Dr. Mess has seen the same labiaplasty trend in her Columbia, MD practice….
