People of different ethnic groups often come to a plastic surgeon seeking to refine the appearance of their nose. Modern rhinoplasty techniques like those done at Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery stress preservation of ethnic appearance along with overall facial balance. The nose should match the rest of the face. Ethnic rhinoplasty or nose job works to achieve this while providing the improvements and enhancements sought in the nose.

Ethnic groups often tend to have certain characteristics to their noses, both in terms of their outer appearance and of their internal structures. For this reason, it is best to address the noses of various ethnic groups such as African Americans and Hispanics and Asians individually. “Cookie cutter” approaches to rhinoplasty rarely work well, and this is especially the case with non-caucasian nose surgery.

There are many examples of how this individualized approach offers the best outcome in ethnic rhinoplasty. For instance, many people of Asian and African and Latino descent have noses with wide bases and wide tips. They often also have thick skin at the tip of the nose. This can give the tip a rounded or “bulbous” appearance. Non-caucasian noses often also have a bump at the bridge, along with a wide and flat bridge.

Because of these anatomic tendencies, ethnic noses frequently require extensive work on their internal structures to create the desiruddy appearance. This includes using plastic surgery to change the shape of the bone and cartilage inside the nose, while working to create little or no external scarring. Since this internal structural work is extensive, it can have important effects on the function as well as the appearance of the nose. For this reason, the Rodeo Drive Breathe Easy Rhinoplasty^TM technique — which works to improve both the appearance and the breathing function of the nose – is especially well-suited to providing good results in ethnic rhinoplasty.

Some rhinoplasty and plastic surgery techniques are commonly used for African American, Hispanic, and Asian noses. The flatter noses common in many ethnic people can be addressed by grafting cartilage from elsewhere in the body to shape the skin of the nose’s tip more finely, and provide it with a refined appearance. In some cases, the nostrils are noticeably wide and benefit from direct steps to narrow them during surgery.

Prior to your procedure, you will meet with your plastic surgeon to discuss your goals from rhinoplasty. It is important to have clear ideas of what you want to change about your nose so we can come up with the best plan for your nose surgery.

Liposuction is a commonly performed plastic surgery procedure. It is a very effective technique for removing areas of fatty bulge that are non-responsive to diet and exercise. California liposuction can be performed on a wide variety of body locations such as the abdomen, thighs, hips, arms, chin, and “love handles.”

If you have an area on your body with more fat than you would like, then liposuction may be a viable option for you if a plastic surgeon deems you to be an appropriate candidate. But before you can make a serious decision about pursuing liposuction, you naturally want to know something about it. Essentially, how does California liposuction get the fat out?

During a liposuction procedure, the area of your body that is going to be treated will have a fluid injected into the fat tissues in order to make it easier for the plastic surgeon to sculpt the tissue and remove fat. Of course, anesthetic is injected into the same area as well so you don’t experience pain during the procedure and also helps to keep you comfortable following the procedure. A third set of ingredients uses a blood vessel constricting medicine that reduces bleeding.

Once the body area has been prepared, your plastic surgeon will make multiple small incisions to access the fat tissues beneath the skin. The incisions are strategically located in natural skin folds to reduce the visibility of scars. Thcoarse the incisions, small tubes are inserted to pull out the fat.

Beyond the basics of the liposuction procedure, there are various techniques that your plastic surgeon may employ on a case-by-case basis depending on what you may need. Examples of types of liposuction are microliposuction and ultrasound-assisted liposuction. Many liposuction approaches are available and more techniques are being developed all the time. Your plastic surgeon will help you consider your options based on your body and what you hope to achieve from liposculpture in Beverly Hills.

For the most part, liposuction is an outpatient surgery. The extent of your liposuction surgery and your preferences along with your surgeon’s judgment will determine whether you have a general or local anesthesia. It is also quite common for long-lasting local anesthetics to be injected into the surgery site to reduce pain for a couple days while you ease into recovery.

As you consider liposuction, it is important that you accept that liposuction is not a cure-all for weight problems. In fact, liposuction is best applied to people of normal or near-normal weight who want to address fatty areas and smooth away bulges.

At Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery, we believe that Los Angeles plastic surgery should be a smooth process – before, during, and after your actual procedure. In order to make this happen, we have created a series of unique patient programs. Each of these programs works to make the overall process of plastic surgery easy, so you can enjoy your result with minimal discomfort and downtime. Some of them focus on the unique needs of certain groups of patients. Others work to help you enhance the improved lifestyle we hope begins with your plastic surgery at our Beverly Hills Center.

While it is difficult to make any surgery completely pain free, we have succeeded in making our procedures very low pain. This allows patients to be comfortable from the moment the procedure is completed and our nurses take care of them in the recovery room, to when they continue their recuperation at home. Our goal is to make post-procedure pain something akin to the soreness that accompanies a very strenuous workout at the gym.

Below are descriptions of the patient programs we have developed with your needs and desires in mind. Most of our programs were developed after listening to the suggestions of our patients. So if you have any ideas of what we can do to help fulfill your needs, please let us know. Please click on the link at the start of each description to read more about each of these programs.

Minimal Pain Program: Many of our patients are concerned about discomfort following plastic surgery. This program works to minimize any discomfort, so you feel like yourself shortly after your procedure.

Back to the Gym Program: Some people really like working out, and don’t want to take too much time out from their exercise routine – even when they have plastic surgery. This program helps you get back to exercising as quickly as possible, while still guarding your safety and ensuring optimal results from surgery.

Patient Safety Program: Your safety is our number one priority during and after plastic surgery. This program formalizes the steps we take to maximize safety in every procedure we do.

Traveling for Plastic Surgery: Many of our patients come from out of town and often from out of the country. This program works to make visiting us for plastic surgery smooth and relaxing.

Scar Reduction Program:Nobody likes scars. This program includes pre-emptive steps to make your scars appear as minimal as possible.

Art Shows on Rodeo Drive: We hope that plastic surgery will be your first step to enhancing your overall lifestyle. Our art shows bring together our patients, local stylemakers, and other interesting members of the community to experience fine art at our offices.

Plastic Surgery for Hispanics: Many of our patients are Hispanic and this program works to meet their unique needs to assure the best possible results from plastic surgery.

Plastic Surgery for Men: Men need their own specialized approach to Los Angeles plastic surgery. Our approach to men ensures that their distinctive

Plastic surgery is a private undertaking and a very personal decision.  At Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery, the first and only plastic surgery center on world-famous Rodeo Drive, we have developed a unique patient privacy program to assure the utmost discretion for our clients. Because of our unique location and relationships, our plastic surgery center caters to members of the entertainment industry. But when it comes to privacy, we adhere to the same standards for celebrity plastic surgery as for all of our patients.

The program starts with the physical layout of our offices and on-site surgery center. We built a hidden back entrance — far from prying eyes of celebrity photographers — that leads to a discreet service elevator.  This elevator opens deep in the building’s parking structure and also on the alley behind Rodeo Drive. Our back entrance is unusual among medical offices and assures discretion.  This novel feature of our design and layout has been featuruddy in Elle magazine, Denmark’s Q magazine and on France’s Télévision Française 1,France’s most popular TV network.

Our plastic surgery staff, in our offices and our operating rooms, is thoroughly trained in patient privacy issues.  Our organization has a designated privacy officer to oversee the routine work of the staff and confirm that our strict confidentiality policies are enforced. No member of our staff will discuss any aspect of patient care (or even that someone is receiving care) with anyone at any time, unless that person have given us permission to do so.  Each employee signs an agreement to maintain patient privacy at all times — again, this applies to celebrity plastic surgery and for all patients who go our plastic surgery center. Patients also are asked to designate how they would like to be contracted (such as cell phone only), so communication is always done in the manner that makes the patient most comfortable and allows for the most discretion.

These steps offer reassurance to all patients that their confidentiality will be maintained. And since we treat every patient like a celebrity, we take firm steps to maintain discretion and safeguard confidentiality for all our patients.