Body

Age Spots

Aging Hand Treatments: Cosmetic Surgery of the Hands
The hands more than any other body part give away one's age. People do not realize that many procedures exist to rejuvenate the hands.

Procedures include: chemical peels to remove age spots, excess skin removal, abiation of
unsightly veins, and fat injections.

Being a hand and upper extremity specialist, Dr John Anastasatos brings his expertise from reconstructing hands to beautifying them.

Arm Implants

Body Contouring and Sculpting: Liposuction (Tumescent Technique)

The tumescent technique is a relatively new liposuction method that can reduce post operative bruising, swelling and pain. Because blood loss is minimized during tumescent liposuction, use of the technique reduces the chance that a blood transfusion will be needed.

In the tumescent technique, areas of excess fat are injected with a large amount of anesthetic liquid before liposuction is per-formed. The liquid causes the compartments of fat to become swollen and firm or "tumesced." The expanded fat compartments allow the liposuction cannula to travel smoothly beneath the skin as the fat is removed.

Brazilian Buttock Lift

Buttock Contouring

Buttock Implants

Buttock Lift: Fat Transfer

Fat is a wonderful asset in cosmetic surgery. The beauty of the patient's own fat is the body recognizes it as its own and therefore it does not reject it.

Fat can be used successfully and elegantly for many reasons. Those reasons include: upper and lower lip augmentation, correction of nasolabial folds, facelift, ablation of line between brow, correction of eye wrinkles and crows feet, buttock augment ation, cosmetic hand rejuvenation.

Calf Implants

Fine Line and Wrinkle Reduction

Hair Removal

Labiaplasty

Liposculpture

Pectoral Implants

Skin Cancers

Spider Veins (Sclerotherapy)

Millions of women are bothered by spider veins - those small yet unsightly clusters of red, blue or purple veins that most commonly appear on the thighs, calves and ankles. In fact, it's estimated that at least half of the adult female population is plagued with this common cosmetic problem.

Today, many plastic surgeons are treating spider veins with sclerotherapy. In this rather simple procedure, veins are injected with a sclerosing solution, which causes them to collapse and fade from view. The procedure may also remedy the bothersome symptoms associated with spider veins, including aching, burning, swelling and night cramps.

Although this procedure has been used in Europe for more than 50 years, it has only become popular in the United States during the past decade. The introduction of sclerosing agents that are mild enough to be used in small veins has made sclerotherapy predictable and relatively painless.

What Are Spider Veins?

Spider veins - known in the medical world as telangiectasias or sunburst varicosities - are small, thin veins that lie close to the surface of the skin. Although these super-fine veins are connected with the larger venous system, they are not an essential part of it.

A number of factors contribute to the development of spider veins, including heredity, pregnancy and other events that cause hormonal shifts, weight gain, occupations or activities that require prolonged sitting or standing, and the use of certain medications.

Spider veins usually take on one of three basic patterns. They may appear in a true spider shape with a group of veins radiating outward from a dark central point; they may be arborizing and will resemble tiny branch-like shapes; or they may be simple linear and appear as thin separate lines. Linear spider veins are commonly seen on the inner knee, whereas the arborizing pattern often appears on the outer thigh in a sunburst or cartwheel distribution.

Varicose veins differ from spider veins in a number of ways. Varicose veins are larger - usually more than a quarter-inch in diameter, darker in color and tend to bulge. Varicose veins are also more likely to cause pain and be related to more serious vein disorders. For some patients, sclerotherapy can be used to treat varicose veins. However, often surgical treatment is necessary for this condition.

Sun Damage

Tumescent Liposuction

Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty)

Vaginal Tightening

Vaginal Rejuvenation

Varicose Veins