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Is There a Way to Soften Frown Lines?
Frown lines—also known as glabellar lines, worry lines, or “elevens”—are vertical wrinkles that form between the eyebrows. People sometimes feel like these lines make them look angry or serious even when they don’t feel that way. Our faces change as we age, and wrinkles often develop in the areas where muscles frequently move, such as …
How Can You Correct a Crooked Nose?
One of the most common insecurities patients discuss with plastic surgeons is a crooked nose, which is a nose that doesn’t form a straight, vertical line down the center of the face. The nose can be bent or twisted out of shape and angled toward the right or left side of the face. This issue …
How Do You Choose the Most Effective Filler for Your Area of Concern?
What filler should I get for my face? Westfield, NJ-area patients often ask us this when they’re thinking about having injectables to enhance their appearance. This is an important question, because facial fillers aren’t all the same. Though all fillers available at Burnett Plastic Surgery are injectables that can make a person’s face appear more …
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Can an Eyelid Lift Give You More Refreshed-Looking Eyes?
Bags, sags, drooping, wrinkles, and dark circles around the eyes are all examples of age-related changes that occur to the skin. We can decide to accept these changes or do something about them. The skin on the eyelids is very delicate and thin. In fact, it’s the thinnest skin on the entire body, so it’s …
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3 Rhinoplasty Aftercare Tips
Since the nose is such a central and noticeable feature on the face, even the smallest irregularity can make a person’s entire facial appearance somehow seem unbalanced. With that in mind, patients get rhinoplasty surgery for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it may be a way of repairing their nose after an injury, or a …
What Are the Best Ingredients to Rejuvenate Winter Skin?
In the winter, our skin often gets drier than normal, as well as irritated and cracked as it’s damaged by the very low temperatures and lack of humidity combined with the effects of indoor heating. For most people, this is the harshest season for our skin. The reason why there’s a lack of moisture is …
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What Are the Benefits of Combining Injectable Treatments?
While you might notice only minor changes to your skin in your 20s—such as the first appearance of expression wrinkles—you can expect more dramatic changes once you reach your 30s and 40s. Collagen and elastin levels drop, skin cell turnover slows down, and the skin can’t recover from inflammation as easily as it once did. …
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What Can You Do to Avoid Retinol Burn?
As your skin ages, changes occur in the connective tissue, causing strength and elasticity to be reduced. The number of pigment cells (melanocytes) decreases, blood vessels are weakened, sebaceous glands produce less oil, and your body begins to create less collagen. All of these changes result in thinner, paler, more wrinkled skin. If you’re seeking skin …
Will Breast Implants Be Painful?
Patients often wonder how much pain they can expect—and for how long—after having breast augmentation surgery. Yes, you will generally experience some soreness and swelling for at least the first couple of weeks, along with general weakness and fatigue. It’s common to feel tightness in the shoulders, back, and neck, in addition to the chest, …
5 Benefits of Sunlight for Your Body and Mind
Although sunny weather isn’t always ideal for certain types of procedures, injectables like BOTOX® and other wrinkle-relaxing injections from our NJ-based practice aren’t affected by sun exposure and patients don’t need to give their skin any special attention—beyond the usual. Want more good news? It’s true that excessive exposure to UV radiation can age the skin and …
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