Women who desire fuller, higher, and younger looking breasts may be candidates for a breast lift. A breast lift, also known as a mastopexy, restores the shape and firmness to the breasts in women who have noticed sagginess from breast feeding, weight gain/loss, and aging.

In breast lift surgery, the breasts are raised by repositioning the nipple and the areolas (the pigmented area surrounding the nipple), often reducing the size of stretched-out, oversized areola in the...

The decision to have breast augmentation is a personal one. After you have made that decision, you will need to make other decisions with the help of a breast surgeon to personalize your procedure. There are many options for the specifics of breast augmentation so your results will fit your personal needs and goals.

The decisions you will need to make include:

• Breast implant type
• Breast implant profile
• Breast implant size

Your body is unique...

When is it appropriate for a teenager to consider undergoing breast augmentation surgery? In order for breast augmentation surgery to be effective, a young woman’s body must have reached full maturity. It is not rare for a woman of eighteen or nineteen to still experience a growth spurt even into her early twenties, during which time she may gain another size in her breasts.

Typically breast augmentation may be considered before full maturity only in special cases and...

"Tummy tuck" is a cosmetic surgery procedure used to make the abdomen more firm.
The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary defines abdominoplasty as "Plastic surgery of the abdomen in which excess fatty tissue and skin are removed, usually for cosmetic purposes."
The surgery involves the removal of excess skin and fat from the middle and lower abdomen in order to tighten the muscle and fascia of the abdominal wall. This type of surgery is usually...

Unlike breast implants, facial implants have seen a decrease in popularity in recent years, with chin implant procedures decreasing by almost half since 2000. However, facial implants are still an important cosmetic solution for many aesthetic defects people perceive in their faces.

Lip Augmentation

Lip augmentation has been a popular area for facial implants. The conventional wisdom was that the implant could provide a permanent solution for flat, thin lips. However,...

According to the American Obesity Association, obese people have a 50-100 per cent increased risk of death as compared to normal weight individuals.

Severe obesity is associated with a significant increase in morbidity. Attempts to manage morbid obesity with medical weight reduction programmes have failed completely. Childhood obesity is on the rise in Pakistan due to changing lifestyle. More than 30 per cent people in the cities like Lahore, Faisalabad and Gujranwala are...

General anaesthesia refers to the state of overall unconsciousness of the human body, achieved by subjecting it to general anaesthetic drugs. It involves the use of narcotics such as opioids and fentanyl, or sedatives like benzodiazepines. General anaesthesia is a complex procedure involving roughly the following steps:

• Pre-anaesthetic assessment


• Administration of general anaesthetic drugs


• Cardio respiratory monitoring

The increasing no. of men turning towards plastic surgery is on a constant rise.

As per a recent study, the total number of cosmetic procedures on men grew by 16 per cent between 2000 and 2005, with breast reduction, abdominoplasty, lip augmentation, eyelid surgery and liposuction among the most popular. Among non-invasive procedures, men choose Botox injections, as well as chemical peels, collagen injections and microdermabrasion.

Today men desire to smell good,...

The decision to have plastic surgery is certainly not one to be taken lightly. The changes you choose to make to your appearance will be with you for the rest of your life, so you want to be sure you are happy with the results. These are some points you may wish to take into account when deciding who will be your plastic surgeon.

Don't go with the first one you see

Have a list of questions ready to ask several different plastic surgeons. Don't just go with the first one you...

VASER (

Vaser or Vibration amplification through Sound Emission and Resonance, as it may be called after expanding it, is an exciting new technology in the field of body contouring done surgically. It takes liposuction assisted body contouring to new heights. Previously difficult to imagine kind of weight losses and inch losses can be given with excellent intrinsic skin retraction which occurs, promises to help a far greater percentage of patients than could be usefully...