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Oct
Blepharoplasty, or eyelid surgery, is often described as removing extra skin and fat. That description leaves out the part that determines whether the eyes look natural years later: what happens to the muscle. Dr. Amir Moradi, MD, MBA, double board certified in facial plastic sur...
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Oct
CO2 laser resurfacing uses a focused beam of light to remove damaged outer layers of skin and trigger the body to build fresh collagen. It is one of the few treatments that improves sun damage, fine wrinkles, uneven texture and certain scars in a single session. For patients acro...
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Oct
Neurotoxins and fillers are often lumped together, but they solve different problems. A neurotoxin relaxes the muscles that crease your skin. A filler adds or restores volume beneath it. Choosing the wrong one is the most common reason patients feel an injectable "didn't work. " A...
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Oct
A facelift is surgery that lifts and repositions the deeper tissues of the lower face and neck, then redrapes the skin so it sits without tension. For patients in San Diego and North County weighing their options, the most useful question is not "should I do this? " but "which tec...
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Oct
Type "facelift simulation" into an app or ask an image generator for an "after" photo, and you will get a smooth, younger-looking version of a face in seconds. It is tempting to treat that picture as a preview. It is not one. For patients in San Diego and North County researching...
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Oct
Combining procedures can be the right call, the wrong call, or simply a matter of timing. The honest answer to "should I do it all at once? " depends on how your face has aged, how long the operations take, and what your body can safely handle. Dr. Amir Moradi, MD, MBA, double boa...
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Oct
Blepharoplasty recovery follows a predictable arc. Bruising and swelling peak in the first three to four days, most patients feel presentable in public within one to two weeks, and the eyelids keep refining for several months. Upper lids recover faster than lower lids, and knowin...
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Oct
Jaw clenching and teeth grinding, known clinically as bruxism, are one of the most common reasons patients ask about neurotoxin injections, (like BOTOX) outside of the forehead and eyes. The muscle doing the work is the masseter, the thick band of muscle at the angle of the jaw t...
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Sep
Two patients can have the same amount of skin removed in an upper blepharoplasty and end up with completely different scars. Why? Very often, the difference comes down to something surprisingly simple: how the incision was closed. The Problem: Railroad Tracks and Suture Tun...
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Sep
Most people who come in asking about their eyes have already decided what eyelid surgery is going to do to them. Usually they are wrong, and usually they are wrong in the same six ways. Blepharoplasty is one of the most requested procedures at the practice, and it is also on...
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Sep
Under eye filler is marketed as a lunchtime treatment. In chair time, that is accurate. In difficulty, it is one of the least forgiving areas on the face, and injectors who work confidently in cheeks and lips treat the tear trough with far more caution. This is not an argume...
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Sep
Patients rarely arrive using the words "tear trough deformity. " What they say is that concealer used to work and now it does not. That it sits in the groove and makes things look worse by the afternoon. That people keep asking whether they slept badly. The anatomy behin...
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