The correlation between structure and appearance is most straightforward when the skeleton is involved. Today’s case involved a young women after a motor vehicle accident more than a decade ago. The forehead was uneven, the brows in unequal position, old hardware palpable over the roof of the eye socket and the nose was crooked and […]
CEO Announcement: Telemedicine and Virtual Consultations at Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery
Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery is proud to announce to availability of a multimedia telemedicine, virtual conferencing and virtual consultation service starting February 1, 2012. The system made available by Bioengineering Associates, our US based management and healthcare consulting company, allows voice, video and chat interaction through a virtual private network server. It is intended […]
What is cosmetic surgery, what is reconstructive surgery, what is everything in between ?
All too often a difference is made between reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, most often to elevate the status of reconstructive surgery and lower the one of cosmetic surgery. I am a cosmetic surgeon and I do complex reconstrucive surgery. So I never could understand how someone could come up with something so artificial, neither based […]
Breast Reconstruction
This strategy of reconstruction uses the patient’s own tissues to shape a breast mound. There are several advantages, which make autologous reconstruction the method of choice in a variety of situations. Breast reconstruction to correct the deformities arising from breast cancer treatments (mastectomy, quadrantectomy) is a frequent request, given that one out of eight women […]
Specialist Treatment of Burn Injuries
The special expertise and training necessary to treat burn injuries is not widely available. Completion of a one year fellowship training in this area, as the lead surgeon of Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery has done 2001-2002 at the Tampa Bay Regional Burn Center, University of South Florida, is certainly desirable before embarking on the […]
Facelift – Rhytidectomy – Rhytidoplasty
Apart from maybe breast augmentation there is hardly a procedure in the minds of people they think of sooner when “cosmetic surgery” is mentioned other than facelift. No other procedure than facelift better reflects all the good and bad about cosmetic surgery, its errors and evolutions and the whole gamuth of misconceptions in the eye […]
Acne Scars on Dark Skin: What works and what doesn’t
Acne scars on dark skin and skin treatments at plastic surgery clinic and skin treatment clinic, experienced board certified plastic surgeon, specialist in acne scars on dark treatment (forum, before after, safe newest methods)
Asian Rhinoplasty
asian rhinoplasty in the Caribbean, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Miami, New York, Toronto, London
Ethnic Rhinoplasty – Nose Job in Diverse Ethnicities
ethnic rhinoplasty in the Caribbean, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Miami, New York, Toronto, London
Options in Breast Reconstruction
Breast cancer affects one out of eight women over their life time in the US. All current treatment strategies have a surgical component, which ranges from a lumpectomy to a modified radical mastectomy. As a consequence, different degrees of deformity arise, from mild asymmetry to complete absence of both breasts. The physical deformity has a […]