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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Malar Bags and Festoons
The sometimes baggy area beneath the eyelids overlying the cheek bones are called “festoons”. They represent a difficult problem, which is not solved by standard facelift techniques or a “classical” blepharoplasty. The former pulls and tightens in the wrong direction to have an effect in this area of the midface, the latter usually overresects fat […]
Laser Tattoo Removal in Dark Skin Types
Laser energy splits the colored particles in a tattoo into portions small enough to be removed by the body’s scavenger cells. Different wavelength are required for different colors for optimal absorption and energy transfer. However, part of the laser energy is also absorbed by the skin’s melanin (dark pigment) producing cells and may ultimately kill […]
Skin Therapy and Aesthetic Medicine Service Menu September 2010
A. M. E. Skin Care Center and Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery offer various services, procedures and treatment in skin therapy, aesthetic medicine, non surgical rejuvenation and regenerative medicine. Contact us to find out more and to make an appointment. Make up Basic (day/night) TT$200 Camouflage – starting TT$300 Bridal packages – starting TT$500 Photoshoots […]