A chin implant can add definition, contour and overall tone the jawline. While correcting a protruding chin or extending a smaller chin, a chin augmentation surgery inserts the implant in front of the jawbone through a small incision below the mouth. A patient who has undergone a chin implant will be secured with taped bandages …
What Is Capsular Contracture & How To Correct It
Capsular contracture is caused by scar tissue forming around a breast implant during a breast augmentation or reconstruction procedure. Capsular contracture has many signs and symptoms including pain, stiffness and possibly leakage. Thanks to new developments and advancements in technology, you do not need to remove your implants if you suffer from capsular contracture. How …
Facial Enhancement Cosmetic Procedures with Surgery
If you are looking for long term results and natural, yet noticeable cosmetic improvements to certain facial features such as the chin, forehead, lips, cheeks, ears, nose or neck, you should consider a procedure with a board-certified plastic surgeon. Dr. Jimmy Firouz has extensive training, experience and first-hand knowledge of how to maximize the desired …
How Botox Works and Why It is So Effective
Botox is the number one injectable non-surgical procedure. It is simple with no recovery or downtime. It is not invasive like surgery. It is a neurotoxin that is injected into various areas of the face like between the eyebrows, lines on your forehead and around your eyes. It paralyzes the muscles and relaxes them, allowing …
Ideally, Who Should Get a Tummy Tuck?
Many of our patients interested in a tummy tuck would like a tighter, toned abdomen. In addition to removing excess fat from the stomach and abdomen, the abdomen muscles are aligned into tighter formation(unlike during a liposuction procedure). Many mothers, post-partum and post-delivery after just one or multiple children may benefit from a tummy tuck. …
Perks of Breast Augmentation Surgery
What are the perks of breast enhancement or augmentation surgery? The opportunity to correct the size of your breasts (if one breast is larger or smaller than the other), create proportionality to the rest of the body, go up a cup size or two, or three, and create an attractively, appealing chest. Breast augmentation surgery …
Get Plumper Fuller Lips with Lip Enhancement Surgery
Lip augmentation is typically thought of as creating the “duck face” or the look of overdone plastic surgery when done incorrectly. With a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon in Beverly Hills like Dr. Firouz, you cannot go wrong with lip augmentation surgery using fat injections or lip fillers. The lips have their own proportionality, dimension, …
Plastic Surgery Options for Men in Los Angeles
In the United States, both men and women desire and utilize the cosmetic and functional benefits plastic surgery brings. With Dr. Jimmy Firouz, a Beverly Hills board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, his male patients are impressed with the results of various cosmetic procedures and the preservation of manliness and masculine features that is accomplished by …
When to Choose a Breast Reduction Surgery
The circumstances for a breast reduction surgery are unique compared to breast augmentation, lift and other procedures. The reason being that an individual usually selects to reduce the size of their breasts due to pain. Neck and back pain, sagging breasts and lack of ability to fully enjoy daily life due to larger breasts can …
Differing Breast Lift Incisions and Techniques
Breasts are a primary area of the body that attracts much attention in the cosmetic and plastic surgery world. Whether you are looking to enhance the shape, increase the size, or lift breasts that may have sagged or drooped naturally after nursing or with age and time, Dr. Jimmy Firouz is a plastic and reconstructive …