March 02, 2010 @ 07:45 AM — by jqcookmd
A significant number of people exercise in order to improve or maintain their body shape and to keep their weight within a desired range. As a person loses weight due to increased exercise a desirable feedback cycle is established. When your clothes fit better, you feel good about your appearance, and you are likely to want to continue exercising.
February 08, 2010 @ 04:30 PM — by jqcookmd
The ideal candidate for liposuction is a person who is relatively young with good skin tone and localized fat deposits and who has good personal habits of nutrition and exercise.
February 05, 2010 @ 03:49 PM — by jqcookmd
"A neck lift is not a neck lift is not a neck lift". In my experience there is no standard neck lift that works well for all patients. That is why I have developed a variety of approaches to neck lift surgery, each of which is designed for a specific type of neck problem. This blog will serve as an introduction to these operations. I’ll discuss each operation in greater detail in a separate blog. Also visit my website for detailed discussions
February 05, 2010 @ 01:59 PM — by jqcookmd
If you are considering breast augmentation surgery, it is important for you to realize that breast implants alone will not solve every breast problem. If I were to describe the ideal patient for breast augmentation surgery, she would have a relatively well-toned breast structure with very little of what plastic surgeons refer to as ptosis. The word is pronounced with a silent “p” and is perhaps a gentler way of saying, “sagging” or “drooping.”
February 05, 2010 @ 01:48 PM — by jqcookmd
The High Lateral Tension Abdominoplasty is my preferred technique for restoring the tone of the abdomen. Patients come to me for this procedure because they have experienced a loss of tone of the abdominal skin, usually as a result of pregnancy or significant weight fluctuation.
February 05, 2010 @ 01:39 PM — by jqcookmd
In this blog I will give you an overview of the different injectible materials that our team at the Whole Beauty Institute™ utilizes to optimize facial appearance. All of these are non-surgical therapies and can be injected with a fine needle during a visit to one of our offices. When used with intelligence and artistry, these injectibles can provide our patients with a wonderful freshening of the facial appearance with very little down time. In fact, many of our patients who undergo injectible therapy return to work or social interaction within a few hours of treatment.
February 05, 2010 @ 01:34 PM — by jqcookmd
I have many patients who are competitive skiers, tennis players, and swimmers, sports that require optimum function of the pec muscles. These patients tell me there is residual soreness and stiffness for a period of one to three months after the surgery, but that they have not experienced any long-term diminishment of their athletic performance.
February 05, 2010 @ 01:25 PM — by jqcookmd
There are a few special sports where it may make sense to consider placing the implant in the subglandular plane, a space that can be developed beneath the undersurface of the breast and above the pectoral muscle.
February 05, 2010 @ 01:05 PM — by jqcookmd
On the one hand the poses which body builders strike during competition involve forceful contraction of well-developed pectoral muscles. This places subpectoral breast implants at a disadvantage, since the contraction of the muscle will distort the shape of the breast.
October 13, 2009 @ 12:48 PM — by jqcookmd
If you are an athletic individual, I will not bore you with a dissertation on the benefits of fitness; you are already well aware of them! My purpose with this particular blog and its counterparts is to address the specific issues that are important to athletes who are considering breast augmentation surgery. In later blogs I will focus on issues that are important to athletes considering breast lift (mastopexy) or breast reduction surgery.
September 30, 2009 @ 04:14 PM — by jqcookmd
An increasing percentage of our patients choose from our portfolio of limited incision surgeries for facial rejuvenation. These surgeries include customized face lifts, cheek lifts, jaw border lifts, and neck lifts, as well as certain types of brow lifts and eyelid surgery. They can be carried out under local anesthesia in the comfort and privacy of the Whole Beauty Institute™ in Chicago and Winnetka.
September 08, 2009 @ 02:29 PM — by jqcookmd
You may want to consider periareolar breast augmentation surgery if you have ever formed a thick or raised scar or if you have a family history of forming thicker scars. People of African or Asian ancestry have a greater risk of forming thick scars than people of northern European ancestry, so that may influence your decision.
There are also patients who prefer the periareolar incisions for breast enhancement surgery because the scar hides well along the color transition of the areolar border.
September 03, 2009 @ 10:28 AM — by jqcookmd
For patients who require less extensive surgery we are able to offer a variety of short incision surgeries that target specific facial regions. These surgeries can be carried out under local anesthesia in both locations of the Whole Beauty Institute™, our Chicago office on North Michigan Avenue and our North Shore office on Green Bay Road in Winnetka.
August 26, 2009 @ 03:35 PM — by jqcookmd
The advantage of this approach to breast augmentation surgery is that the incision is placed in a location away from the breast, the armpit. The incision will not be detectable when your arms are by your sides, but will be visible if you bring your arms above your head. Remember this if you enjoy sports such as swimming, volleyball, or racquet sports.
August 11, 2009 @ 04:39 PM — by jqcookmd
The inframammary fold, the natural fold under the breast, provides the most direct path for the placement of a breast implant. Because the incision rests in the natural shadow line of the lower breast curvature it tends to be inconspicuous after the early phases of healing.
August 06, 2009 @ 02:21 PM — by jqcookmd
One of the choices that you will make regarding breast augmentation surgery is the location of the incision through which the surgery is performed. If you are worried about this choice, I have some good news. For the vast majority of patients, an expert surgeon can provide an equally beautiful result through any of the commonly used incisions.
July 27, 2009 @ 05:42 PM — by jqcookmd
In the first part of this blog I described the problem that many athletes encounter in their mid 30’s or 40’s: the very exercise that adds to their health and vigor begins to rob the face of its beautiful curves, especially in the upper cheeks. Fat transfer is a wonderful solution to this problem.
July 23, 2009 @ 01:15 PM — by jqcookmd
One of the few disadvantages to a rigorous program of exercise is the tendency for the face to appear a little gaunt and hollow as the years advance. With aging there is a tendency for the face to lose its fullness in the upper cheek, around the lips, in the temples, and along the jaw border. In some people, heavy exercise accelerates this tendency. At most fitness clubs you can see people with trim beautifully proportioned physiques but who look a little hollow in the face.
July 20, 2009 @ 12:11 PM — by jqcookmd
As a rule the best results in aesthetic plastic surgery occur when the surgeon respects and builds upon the natural structure of the body. Radical changes often lead to results that at least to my eye look overly “surgical.” I feel I have done my best for a patient when her friends tell her, “you look great” rather than “oh, what nice surgery you had.” This is particularly true when it comes to breast augmentation surgery.
July 16, 2009 @ 10:22 AM — by jqcookmd
Once you reach a certain age, it is interesting to revisit the college or high school year book. There is a wonderful softness to the energetic and eager faces that look out at you from these pages. This is not just the result of photographic technique. As the years pass, most people lose significant fat in the upper cheek, particularly if they exercise and keep themselves trim. In a somewhat cruel irony, the better the body looks, the more tired the face looks!
July 13, 2009 @ 02:25 PM — by jqcookmd
Patients at the Whole Beauty Institue ® have a strong preference for silicone gel implants over saline breast implants. In a recent review of our data from the last 2 years of we found that 87% of our patients selected silicone gel implants for the various breast surgeries that I performed.
July 06, 2009 @ 02:57 PM — by jqcookmd
The patient considering breast augmentation has a number of choices. These include the location of the incision (in the fold under the breast, around the areolar border, or in the armpit areas), the type of breast implant (silicone gel or saline, rough or smooth surface, and a variety of degrees of projection and shape) and the location of the implant (under the breast or under the breast and the pectoral muscle).