Farhad Rafizadeh, Author at betterplasticsurgery.com

12 09, 2012

How to choose the right plastic surgeon in New Jersey. NJ plastic surgery expert.

Farhad Rafizadeh2017-01-22T19:44:21+00:00September 12th, 2012|Categories: General, News|

What makes perfectly happy patients seek treatment elsewhere? I must say that I am fortunate to have very loyal patients who keep coming back to me year after year, but having said that I must admit that once in a while I am surprised to see that a patient has had a treatment done elsewhere. Most of the time this is a filler or a Botox treatment that the patient was offered by their dermatologist while they were being treated for something else and the patient decided to have that treatment done at that location as a matter of convenience. [...]

7 07, 2012

Face, beauty, proportion, New Jersey.

Farhad Rafizadeh2012-07-07T16:43:55+00:00July 7th, 2012|Categories: News|

What is it that makes a face or a body beautiful? This is a question that artists have asked themselves forever. There seems to be a universal beauty that exists across different races and is determined by a certain proportion. A proportion and harmony between the different constituents of the face and the body. Years ago when I started my practice, I was asking myself this same question. I had seen very capable plastic surgeons perform procedures that they thought were very successful, but the patient did not look good. For example, they would go to extreme measures to create [...]

12 06, 2012

Botox, Dysport, Xeomin. Full face treatment New jersey.

Farhad Rafizadeh2012-06-12T22:48:21+00:00June 12th, 2012|Categories: News, Restylane, Juvederm, Botox (fillers and neuromodulators)|

How Botox works in the entire face. Dr Rafizadeh explains from Morristown NJ Neuromodulator like Botox, Dysport and Xeomin are all effective and approved by the FDA for cosmetic use in the glabellar area, the area between the eyebrows. These drugs all work by eliminating the function of small muscles that actively create wrinkles. We have been using these products in other areas of the face like the crow’s feet, forehead, bunny line and the neck platisma bands, with great success. There are other muscles that pull the corners of the mouth down (depressor anguli oris). These muscles can be [...]

2 06, 2012

What’s new with breast implants in New Jersey.

Farhad Rafizadeh2017-01-22T19:44:21+00:00June 2nd, 2012|Categories: Breast, News|

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new silicone-gel breast implant from Sientra, making it the third company to market the controversial products in the U.S. This will be the third company offering silicone breast implants in the US. The implants are approved for breast augmentation or reconstruction in women who are at least 22 years old. Breast augmentation remains very popular. According to the statistics performed by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 307,000 procedures were performed last year in the US; an increase of 3.6 % from the previous year. Is it good to have another company [...]

15 04, 2012

Can Botox or Dysport improve depression. Dr Rafizadeh answers from New Jersey.

Farhad Rafizadeh2017-01-22T19:44:21+00:00April 15th, 2012|Categories: News, Restylane, Juvederm, Botox (fillers and neuromodulators)|

Botox to impove depression New Jersey There has been multiple claims that treating the frown lines could affect the mood and treat depression, but the most conclusive evidence comes from a study designed by Dr Kruger from Germany. In fact he conducted the study with a colleague Dr. Wollmer at the University of Basel Switzerland the town of the famous Roger Federer. The study is scientifically designed with a control (placebo) group and demonstrated an 80% positive response in the treated group versus 20% response in the placebo group. The mechanism through which this beneficial effect is obtained is not [...]

10 04, 2012

Precision Otoplasty. Ear pinning for natural results in New Jersey

Farhad Rafizadeh2017-01-22T19:44:22+00:00April 10th, 2012|Categories: Ears, News|

The prominent ears is a deformity of young children who’s ears stick out. Some tolerate this aesthetic problem well, but others are seriously disturbed by it. Girls have chance of hiding it under longer hair, but in boys it’s a lot more difficult. The problem can be unilateral or bilateral. I did one of these procedures today and I thought it would be good to write about the key parts of the procedure and what needs to be done to obtain predictable results. The operation has been described in detail by many great plastic surgeons and different procedures exist to [...]

21 03, 2012

Where to go for Botox or Dysport in New Jersey.

Farhad Rafizadeh2012-03-21T05:10:38+00:00March 21st, 2012|Categories: News, Restylane, Juvederm, Botox (fillers and neuromodulators)|

Botox and Dysport are two different brands of botulinum toxin A that have similar effect on facial muscles with minute differences. Both these compounds are effective in reducing active lines and produce a relaxed, rested and wrinkleless appearance to the face. The procedure of injecting Botox seems relatively simple and many non plastic surgeons in New Jersey have learned to do the injection, most of them after a short course on how to do the procedure. Despite the simplicity of this procedure I see patients who come to my office with less than perfect results on a weekly basis. I [...]

16 03, 2012

Do breast implants (augmentation) lift the breast? A New Jersey experince.

Farhad Rafizadeh2017-01-22T19:44:22+00:00March 16th, 2012|Categories: Breast, News|

Does breast augmentation produce a breast lift? This is a common question from my patients in Morristown, New Jersey, but I think there is quite a bit of controversy around this subject. I was watching a video by one of the leading plastic surgeons attempting to bust some myths about breast augmentation and he mentioned that breast implants do not lift the breasts. Then I looked around on the web and noticed that it seems to be a generally accepted notion that breast implants do not lift the breasts. Through my own experience, I have to admit that I do [...]

6 03, 2012

Smooth vs Textured Breast Implants a choice in Morristown, New Jersey

Farhad Rafizadeh2017-01-22T19:44:22+00:00March 6th, 2012|Categories: Breast, News|

This is fortunately not a very difficult decision to make. I prefer smooth implants and I will tell you why. I am not the only one to like smooth implants, in fact the majority of plastic surgeons like them as well. Before there was textured implants we used an implant covered with a layer of polyurethane. Those days the silicone gel wasn’t really a gel, like Jello. It was more like honey and the implant’s membrane was very thin. The gel used to come out of the membrane and cause irritation of the capsule, a phenomenon called gel bleed. The [...]

5 03, 2012

Silicone gel versus saline breast implants. Dr. Rafizadeh’s experience in New Jersey

Farhad Rafizadeh2017-01-22T19:44:22+00:00March 5th, 2012|Categories: Breast, News|

Silicone Or Gel Breast Implants NJ. Both implants are made of a silicone polymer membrane that holds either saline or silicone gel. When I started my practice in 1984 we only used gel filled implants. Very few plastic surgeons used saline filled implants. Then all of a sudden a media frenzy started about the silicone gel implants. It was said that they were dangerous and could cause all kinds of diseases. Every woman with a little joint pain was asked to remove her implants. The lawyers started suing the manufacturers and sometimes the doctors who put these implants in. The [...]

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