Facial aging starts especially early around the eyes and there in the lower eyelid. Clients in their late thirties often present with small fat protrusions, visible, horizontal folds in the eyelid and around the outer corner of the eye – the dreaded crow’s feet. When progressing into the forties, excess skin becomes noticeable both in […]
Difficult Wrists
During my hand fellowship I once asked my program director Al Hess MD why he had become a hand surgeon after completing his training in orthopaedic surgery. His answer was “In the other stuff I had become so perfect that it was boring”. Wrist surgery is a prime example why hand surgery is never boring, […]
PIP Implants – Removal or Exchange after Breast Augmentation
So Pandora’s box was finally opened. The eventual worldwide recall of French Polyimplant Prothese (PIP) silicone breast implants puts a final exclamation mark behind what everybody knows but hates to admit – cheap is bad, to be cheap you have to cut corners to cut costs and cutting corners – such as using industrial instead […]
Writing for the gallery
It has been said that it is the secret dream of any surgeon to leave this world with his or her name attached to at least one instrument. This is what makes craniofacial surgery real fun as Paul Tessier had his name attached to almost all instruments on an average craniofacial surgery instrument tray. So […]
Scar Revisions in Facial Injuries
scar revision facial plastic surgery by board certified plastic surgeon, specialist in scar revision plastic surgery for patients from 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
Breast Enlargement, Breast Implants Size
Plastic surgery in Trinidad, Caribbean, is all about the individual client. The art of a board certified plastic surgeon is crafting individualized solutions and then carrying them out as technically perfect as possible. An individualized solutions begins with exploration of the individual client’s desires and expectations. These are usually not numbers or cup sizes, but looks and the effects of appearance on self image and environment.
Ethnic Rhinoplasty, a Nose Job for Diversity – Building the Bridge
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
Natural Rhinoplasty
Natural rhinoplasty provides improved form and function by techniques of augmentation and reduction resulting balance and harmony
A Cure for Migraine Headaches: Botox, Nerve Decompression, Brow Lifting and Septoplasty
Migraine headaches are common in young women and can be extraordinarily incapacitating requiring longterm treatment with medications. Similar to the account of the discovery of a cure we observe migraine headaches not infrequently in our Caribbean plastic surgery practice at Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery in younger women presenting for facial rejuvenation with Botox. Chance […]
Nose Job Before and After Pictures: Myth and Reality in Rhinoplasty
Nose job before and after pictures are an important topic and they are a difficult tool to use correctly and to understand appropriately. Rhinoplasty may well be the most demanding operation of all plastic surgery procedures in the face. The position of the nose in the center of the face, the region which the brain […]