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The Popular Mini Facelift

A full facelift is a very invasive procedure that creates some extensive swelling and bruising. The recovery is involved. In contrast, for a mini facelift Dr. Herte uses shorter incisions and manipulates underlying tissue to a lesser degree. This makes for less tissue trauma and bruising, and an easier recovery. A mini facelift also gives the patient a refreshed look […]

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Get Your Squeeze On with Compression Garments After Lipo

Our patients often wonder why they have to traipse around feeling like they’re wearing Spanx for weeks after they have liposuction. Isn’t the fat gone? So, what’s with the squeezing everything in? Dr. Herte recommends her patients wear compression garments for around six weeks following most liposuction procedures. There are three really good reasons why. Minimize the swelling, bruising, and […]

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Implant Revision

Implant revision is not a popular procedure, but it usually is a necessary one. Before having augmentation, patients often wonder why someone would need revision surgery (unless an implant ruptures, obviously). But whether the cause is a less-than-ideal job done by another surgeon or a simple desire to change the size of the implants, there are a variety of reasons […]

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Some Liposuction Questions

Liposuction has become the second most popular cosmetic surgery in the United States for the simple reason that everyone, no matter how much they exercise or watch their diet, has pockets of fat that are stubborn and will not go away. Liposuction is the procedure that can make those pockets go away. Since Dr. Herte performs many liposuction procedures, we thought […]

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Your Sagging Brow is Giving You a Bad Rep

Beautiful woman with pink lily isolated on white[/caption]Gravity doesn’t take no for an answer. It doesn’t take a trip to Provence. It’s always there pulling down the skin, underlying muscle, and tissue on your forehead. Facial expressions such as frowning and squinting do not help either. Before you know it you have creases between your eyebrows and your brows have […]

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Turning Back the Clock with a Facelift

Our bodies age everywhere, but nowhere reminds us as much every morning as our faces. Decreasing collagen and volume loss combine with sun damage and skin that isn’t as supple as it once was to sag, crease, and create hollows that really make us look older. And we see it every morning looking right back at us. A facelift with […]

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When Enough is Enough — Breast Reduction

With the number of breast augmentation procedures increasing every year, it may seem odd that a woman would opt to have her breast size decreased. But the truth is overly large breasts can become a burden, both physically and emotionally. In these cases, Dr. Herte performs breast reduction surgery to make the breasts smaller, more uplifted, and more proportionate with […]

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You’ve Lost the Weight, Now Lose the Sag

Losing weight is hard work. Losing a dramatic amount of weight requires serious life changes, whether you do it on your own or through bariatric surgery. But once you’ve done the hard work and are a shadow of your former self, what’s with all the hanging loose skin across your body? You have a new contour, but your skin didn’t […]

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These Gummy Bears Aren’t Candy

If you’ve been considering having breast augmentation, you know you have many decisions to make beyond just the overall procedure. Of course, you’ll need to choose the type of implants you want. In the past you’ve had two choices, saline or silicone. But in 2012 a new type of implant entered your realm of options — the gummy bear implant. […]

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Peeling Your Way to Better Skin

Chemical peels have been around as long as women have paid attention to the condition of their skin. Cleopatra could be the first true proponent, as she used the lactic acid from milk as a mild peel on her facial skin. At the Herte Center, we use TCA (trichloracetic acid) peels to freshen the complexions of our patients, addressing texture […]

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