Where do you find face lift surgeons? They are also known as rhytidectomy plastic surgeons. Rhytidectomy comes from the Greek: rhutis, rhutid-, wrinkle + ectomy and so literally means the surgical removal of wrinkles. It is the redraping of your skin on your face and neck and removal of the excess to give a smoother [...]

Prominent ears can be sorted out in very small babies without surgery through splinting with systems like Ear Buddies. Children and adults can have surgery which is called ototplasty or pinnaplasty and is carried out by ENT surgeons.

Septoplasty is surgery on the septum of the nose i.e. the thin dividing wall in your nose between the nostrils. The operation is required if you have a deviated septum which is causing obstruction of the nasal passage which in turn results in breathing difficulties or in poor drainage of the sinuses. It may cause [...]

A review of the television program ‘Super Botox Me’ by guest writer Alex Wallace-Dunlop.

Having studied the before and after photos, rhinoplasty surgeons, cost and clinics, and made a decision to go forward, the day for the procedure comes round. After the operation, under general anesthetic, you will return home a little the worse for wear but with plenty of help organised on the domestic front if you have followed my guidance.

Rhinoplasty before and after is more about the practicalities of managing your nose job than about before and after photographs. There are lots of small details to consider such as your medical history, who will take you home and take care of you, to how bruised and swollen you may be as you lie propped up on lots of pillows.

Peter Butler, an Irish plastic surgeon, leads the first team of medical specialists who in the UK in 2006 were given permission by the NHS ethics board to carry out face transplants. In the future will women queue at the morgue to get the pick of the freshest faces?

Looking for the top rhinoplasty surgeon or the top laser eye surgeon or Irish surgeons from other branches of medicine? A Cosmetic Surgery Ireland piece on the fact that they exist in abundance and there is difficulty in finding clear information about them on the web when you need it.

If you are considering a nose job in Ireland you may have to get on the scent of a specialist rhinoplasty surgeon. Or is it an otolaryngologist you need?

Surgery gone wrong is sad to hear about because not only has a person’s hopes been dashed but they may look worse than they did before the procedure. Take the time to check out your cosmetic surgeons qualifications, equipment, premises, insurance and after care before lying down under their knife or having laser surgery.

The Intralese femtosecond laser for eye surgery was one of the first bladeless lasers on the market. It is commonly referred to as Intralase or bladeless Lasik. Eye surgery of this kind has a two step procedure and the first of which is creating or cutting a corneal flap.

Lasek eye surgery is a bladeless form of eye surgery and is similar to Lasik in the actual shaping of the eye. The other bladeless option is femtosecond laser surgery.

Blepharoplasty is plastic eye surgery for those droopy upper and lower eyelids and is best carried out by oculoplastic surgeons. You can have double eyelid surgery and the procedure takes from one to three hours and is generally done on a day patient basis. In Ireland they may be a member of BOPSS or The Irish Plastic Surgery Association or neither.

Methods of laser eye treatment continue to improve & we now have bladeless Lasik eye surgery due to the arrival of the femtosecond laser which deploys tiny and rapid pulses of laser light to pass through the top layers of your cornea and form a minute bubble and allow the corneal flap to be created without a blade. Only bad side effect is temporary transient light sensitivity syndrome.

Eyelid plastic surgery or blepharoplasty is carried out by oculoplastic surgeons. They are ophthalmic surgeons who specialise in eyelid and facial plastic surgery and deal will drooping, sagging, bagging eyelids and a complete carousel of other eye problems.

There are a few Lasik vs PRK post operation differences worth knowing about. With laser eye surgery, whether Lasik surgery or PRK, planning ahead will make a lot of difference to your recovery.

A Cosmetic Surgery Ireland list of medical qualifications and the route to them plus medical associations. Do you know about Oculo Facial Plastic Surgeons for instance? Know your HST from your BST? Do you know how your doctor did his/her training?

Information on laser eye surgery and in particular PRK laser eye treatment. This is a procedure that was more popular before LASIK. It only takes a matter of minutes and is used to treat patients who have larger than average pupils or thin corneas.

Whether having Lasik or PRK eye surgery there are preparations you can make in advance to make life easier for yourself.

A detailed description of LASIK Vision surgery procedure where a microkeratome is used to create a flap of corneal tissue which is then folded back so the eye can be treated with a pulsing laser.

The development of laser surgery known as PRK and the influence of José Ignacio Barraquer through his development of the microkeratome.

An explanation of the development of the excimer laser and why it is used in photorefractive keratotomy (PRK) surgery.

Svyatoslav Fyodorov worked on systems for eye treatment and he eventually produced a precise formula which became known as radial keratotomy (RK). Michail Gorbachov had a major influence on the advance of this treatment with his timely arrival to power in Russia.

Laser eye surgery in Ireland is popular. You can have Lasik, Lasek, PRK or femtosecond bladeless surgery. Uou need to prepare well in advance if you wear contact lenses and check out your surgeons qualifications and equipment.

Training as an Ophthalmologist is a long and serious process and your surgical eye specialist will have trained for even longer. You can easily check the registration and qualification of yours before surgery.