I’ve heard the above exclamation from many patients as they attempt to analyze “why” they look old. In these patients a full facelift was over-kill, and an isolated neck lift disrupted the “harmony” of the aging process at the jaw line by placing a 40-year-old neck on a 60-year-old face. This resulted in a very […]

It seems that a good way to test the success of a facelift procedure is to use each technique on a set of twins and compare the outcome.  One such recent report suggested twin # 1 had an outpatient procedure under local anesthesia with a much shorter and easier recovery than her twin sister.  Twin […]

Recently, the Post Dispatch printed an article in the health section that caused a number of people to call our office. This is a fine example of bench scientists attempting to translate what happens in a lab to a human being.  In the experiment, they immerse human lung cells in a solution containing zinc oxide […]