Plastic surgery

Questions We Wish Patients Would Ask

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Cosmetic plastic surgeons see many people every day who are interested in looking better…but may know next to nothing about plastic surgery. So every cosmetic plastic surgeon uses what Latin teachers call the “Socratic Method,” a technique we know today as “Q&A.” But there are questions, and then there are questions surgeons wish people...

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Cosmetic Surgery & Unhappy Patients

Friday, July 29, 2011

        Stuart Linder, M.D. (“Dr. Body”) and Robert Kotler, M.D. (“Dr. Face”) tell what to do if you have unsatisfactory cosmetic surgery anywhere in the world.   The key to getting the look you want? Cosmetic plastic surgeons have a saying, “A happy patient brings at least three more eager patients;...

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After Cosmetic Surgery: When to Call the Surgeon Back

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

        Both the eminent Beverly Hills board-certified plastic surgeon Stuart Linder, M.D. (Dr. Body) and the equally eminent Beverly Hills board-certified facial plastic surgeon Robert Kotler, M.D. (who blogs as Dr. Face) tell their patients that some unwanted conditions and complications can crop up after plastic surgery. The average complication for...

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Cosmetic Surgery Global News

Thursday, July 14, 2011

            Cosmetic plastic surgery continues to make news worldwide. There are no better interpreters of such news reports than Drs. Body and Face who tell what the headlines mean to potential patients. Dr. Body is the eminent Beverly Hills board-certified plastic surgeon Stuart Linder, M.D.while the equally imminent Beverly...

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Plastic Surgery and Cold Patients

Friday, June 24, 2011

With the onset of summer and toasty temperatures – especially on the U.S. Eastern Coast – some patients have found an unexpected blessing while receiving plastic surgery procedures. The operating room can be much cooler than expected. In fact, sometimes, it can be downright cold!   Here, Doctors Face and body (Robert Kotler, M.D....

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Cosmetic Surgery Patients: When They are Ready

Monday, April 18, 2011

Robert Kotler, M.D. (“Dr. Face”) and Stuart Linder, M.D. (“Dr. Body”) have noticed that many patients come to their Beverly Hills offices wondering if they are really, really ready for cosmetic surgery. While everybody is interested in looking at before and after pictures, some patients and potential patients go beyond the pictures and read...

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Plastic Surgery at Medi-Spas: Caution!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Robert Kotler, M.D. (“Dr. Face”) and Stuart Linder, M.D. (“Dr. Body”) have noticed that many patients interested in cosmetic plastic surgery often take advantage of services offered at MediSpas. MediSpas are typical day spas where one can take the waters and have a massage or other beauty treatments. During the last several years, many...

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Plastic Surgery Tragedies

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Stuart Linder, M.D. (“Dr. Body”) and Robert Kotler, M.D. (“Dr. Face”) note with sadness several U.S. tragedies while cosmetic surgery patients were undergoing surgery. Under American law, any licensed medical doctor can practice any type of medicine he or she wishes. That means some plastic surgery practitioners may not be properly trained nor tested....

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Plastic Surgery Special Gifts

Friday, January 28, 2011

Stuart Linder, M.D. (“Dr. Body”) and Robert Kotler, M.D. (“Dr. Face”) hear all types of requests from the public to surprise their mates and loved ones with gifts of cosmetic or plastic surgery. Valentine’s Day is especially rife with such requests. That may be a nice thought at first, but surprising somebody with a...

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Plastic Surgery’s Odd Requests

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Stuart Linder, M.D. (“Dr. Body”) and Robert Kotler, M.D. (“Dr. Face”) hear all types of requests from the public for improvements in faces and bodies. But to put tiny breast implants under the tattoo of a well-endowed woman? (Pictured at the bottom of the post, below). Or to ask for lips like Anglie Jolie’s?...

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