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 […]
Electrical Injuries – The “Great Masquerader” in Burn Surgery
Electrical injuries comprise only a small fraction of burn injuries admitted to specialized centers. High voltage injuries may not be survivable. The flow of current through the body interferes with tissues conducting electricity on their own (nerves, heart) and expends its energy on tissues with highest resistance, the bones, causing high temperature damage from the […]
Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery Abroad for the Medical Tourist
I would like to look at the medical tourist more as a discerning costumer in an ever shrinking world where all of us are moving closer and closer together and our lives become intertwined in a real-time environment. “Abroad” is also a very relative term. Some of my patients in my US practice come from […]
Autologous Breast Augmentation with Fat Grafting
Autologous breast augmentation uses the patient’s own tissue to enlarge the breast. The main thrust is the use of the patient’s own body fat. It is harvested by liposuction and injected into the breast. In an abstract sense the concept sounds ingenious. Usually fat is available, it is not a foreign body, all complications (capsular […]
SAFELipo Liposuction Pioneered in Caribbean by Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery
SAFELipo Liposuction, Lipoplasty, Liposculpture, Lipofilling, Body Countouring, Fat Transfer, Fat Grafting, at plastic surgery clinic trinidad and tobago, experienced board certified plastic surgeon, specialist in body contouring trinidad and tobago (forum, before after, safe newest methods)
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 Cost: Value Beats Price – Every Time
ethnic rhinoplasty and nose job cost 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
Short Scar Breast Reduction in Trinidad
Short scar breast reduction in Trinidad provides a vertical scar and a vertical concept – the entire movement of the breast is in an upward direction. Projection of the breast is also increased and the shape becomes more conical, closer to a youthful ideal. Shorter scars mean improved appearance and shorter recovery.
What is the cost of … ? And why are there consultations ?
The consultation is an indispensable preliminary for everything else. It establishes the framework for counseling and the exchange of medical information – the famous benefits, risks and alternatives for any treatment. Cosmetic surgery is mainly the change/enhancement of parts of the human body. This is highly individual and has to be analyzed at least by […]
Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery Featured in World of Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery in Caribbean – breast augmentation, breast reduction, tummy tuck, liposuction, ethnic rhinoplasty, brazilian butt lift, facelift, blepharoplasty, acne scar treatments in Trinidad and Caribbean