Always striving to provide you with individualized care and high-quality results. We are located in the Jane Woodruff Clinic Building on the campus of Highlands-Cashiers Hospital. Everything is done to make your visit as simple and informative as possible. Access is easy and convenient. We are located on the 2nd level with direct entry to that level.
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BOTOX® Injections Treatment
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Dr. Buchanan has considerable experience with Botox. This is treated as a regular procedure and he does all the injections to assure that the possible problems that can occur do not. He also uses a topical anesthetic to reduce the discomfort to an absolute minimum. He also concentrates on the specific muscles causing your problem, rather than injecting everyone the same. This means that he can offer you significant experience to help assure that your procedure meets your expectations. Ideal Candidate:
Frown lines and crow's feet
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Brow Lift (Forehead Lift)
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Dr. Buchanan initially did not like the result of Brow Lifts. With new techniques (now almost entirely endoscopic through tiny incisions) which reverse the signs of age naturally, it is one of the most frequent procedures he performs. He uses it frequently instead of upper blepharoplasty and to reduce the scars in facelifts. Ideal Candidate:
Sagging, low eyebrows, forehead creases, frown lines
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Cheek Augmentation (Implants)
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Cheek augmentation is now much less frequent in Dr. Buchanan's practice because of better ways of reversing the sagging cheeks more naturally by moving the fat that was originally there back to where it belongs. When necessary, he uses both your own fat and synthetic implants, depending on your needs and desires. Ideal Candidate:
Poor facial contour
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Correction of Blepharoplasty
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Dr. Buchanan has significant experience in blepharoplasty, which is, now, one of the most common ones he does. He has also modified the standard approach to achieve excellent repair of the problems around the eyes while obtaining longer lasting results more safely. He uses these techniques to correct problems with previous procedures. This means that he can offer you significant experience to help assure that your surgery is successful and meets your expectations
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Dr. Buchanan has been using the endoscope since the earliest use of the technology. He brought the technique from general surgery to plastic surgery and used it extensively in both reconstructive and cosmetic procedures. He has pushed the indications and developed new uses for the technique. He now does brow lifts almost exclusively endoscopically. This reduces bruising, nerve injury, and scaring and speeds your healing.
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Eye Lid Lift Surgery (Blepharoplasty)
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Dr. Buchanan, our Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, has significant experience in this procedure, which is, now, one of the most common ones he does. He has also modified the standard approach to achieve excellent repair of the problems around the eyes while obtaining longer lasting results more safely. This means that he can offer you significant experience to help assure that your surgery is successful and meets your expectations. Ideal Candidate:
excess fat, wrinkled, drooping skin of upper eyelids; bags, puffiness under eyes
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Face Lift Surgery (Rhytidectomy)
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Dr. Buchanan uses the MACS (Minimal Access Cranial Suspension) Lift technique which corrects facial aging with a more natural apperance with much smaller incisions and much faster recovery. Ideal Candidate:
Loose skin, deep lines, wrinkles, jowls
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Facial Liposuction
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Dr. Buchanan, our Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, was among the first group of surgeons trained in this country to perform liposuction. He then pioneered liposuction techniques and has been working to improve the procedure, including in the face, since. He has never had a significant contour deformity or complication. This means that he can offer you significant experience and increases the chances that your surgery will be successful and meet your expectations. Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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Facial Rejuvenation
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This can include everything from suction to a complete face, neck, eye & browlift. Dr Buchanan has great experience in all these. His present technique usually uses small, inconspicuous incisions. Recovery is faster, with return to normal social activities in less than two weeks. It provides superior results that last as long, or longer than conventional facelifts and prevents many of the problems of older facelifts, including the “pulled look.”
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Juvederm tm
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Dr. Buchanan has considerable experience with Injectable Fillers. These are now a regular part of his practice and treated as a regular procedure to assure that the possible problems that can occur do not. He also does all the injections himself under a combination of topical and regional block anesthesia. This means that he can offer you significant experience to help assure that your procedure is successful and meets your expectations. Juvéderm® is one of the fillers we presently use.
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Laser Skin Resurfacing
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Dr. Buchanan has significant experience with facial rejuvenation. This means that he can help assure that your treatment is successful and meets your expectations. Reversing skin aging is a complex process. Before Laser resurfacing, those things that improve texture and quality of the skin, are done. This, by itself accomplishes a significant amount of improvement. If more is needed, a Laser procedure can then be done safely with much less risk of pigment problems or other complications. Ideal Candidate:
Fair, non-oily skin; sun-damaged facial skin, wrinkles around mouth and eyes, acne scars
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Dr. Buchanan, our Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, was among the first group of surgeons trained in this country to perform liposuction. He then pioneered liposuction techniques and has been working to improve the procedure since. He has never had a significant contour deformity or complication. This means that he can offer you significant experience and increases the likelihood that your surgery will be successful and meet your expectations.
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Male Liposuction
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Dr. Buchanan was among the first group of surgeons trained in this country to perform liposuction. He then pioneered liposuction techniques and has been working to improve the procedure since. He has never had a significant contour deformity or complication. This means that he can offer you significant experience and increases the likelihood that your surgery will be successful and meet your expectations. Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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Obagi Skin Care
Years Performed: 15 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Dr. Buchanan believes that the Obagi Skin Rejuvenation System is the best method available to reverse skin damage. It does a better job than more invasive methods, and frequently eliminates the need for other procedures or surgery when used properly. He personally oversees how you use the Obagi system and follows you throughout your initial period of use or as long as you need assistance to achieve your goals.
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Dr. Buchanan uses PhotoDynamic Therapy to treat severe sun damage and occasionally severe acne. Ideal Candidate:
have sun damage, fine lines, and blotchy pigmentation on the face
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Years Performed: 12 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Injectable Fillers are a regular part of Dr. Buchanan’s practice and treated as a regular procedure to assure that the possible problems do not occur. He also does all the injections himself under a combination of topical and regional block anesthesia. This means that he can offer you significant experience to help assure that your procedure is successful and meets your expectations. Restylane® is one of the fillers we presently use regularly. Other options are available. Ideal Candidate:
Moderate to severe facial wrinkles or folds
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Sunspot Removal
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Dr. Buchanan uses both the Obagi Skin Rejuvenation System, the advanced Ellipse IPL and other methods to remove your Sunspots. The choice depends on your needs and desires. Dr. Buchanan has used TCA to achieve skin rejuvenation for many years. He prefers the Obagi Blue Peel (a modified,safer, more predictable TCA peel) to assure you get the result you desire.
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* The national average fees do not include cost of anesthetics or surgical facility. Be sure to ask your doctor about additonal fees. Costs will vary from city to city throughout the United States.
Associated with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery
Associated with the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Associated with the American College of Surgeons
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We promise to listen to you and provide options of care that allow you to receive only the care you need or desire in the least invasive and least costly manner possible to achieve the best outcome with the fastest recovery.
We set ourselves apart from others with distinctive differences in medical/surgical expertise, information exchange, and caring for you.
E-mails (1 month apart) from an older lady from a mid sized GA town following facial rejuvenation. 1) "I wanted to share with you comments I received today at my first outing venture to the country club here (three weeks post surgery). Two friends said, “You look great. You look so rested.” One friend who is a plastic surgery aficionado from Atlantis, said ”It is the best I have ever seen (quite a complement since she has seen a lot). You are not pulled too tight. It is fantastic! Who did it?” 2) “I just wanted to tell you about my visit this week to my dermatologist for my regular checkup. When I told him about my surgery, he asked who did it because he has patients who ask him all the time for names of surgeons. He said it was the best that he has seen! Too often, he said, it looks way overdone, and mine looks perfect.( he sees patients done by our 7 plastic surgeons here and by several in Atlanta.)
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We provide you the highest quality plastic surgery, at all times remembering to place you first. We do whatever we can to minimize the time, frustration and worry of receiving care. This begins with your first encounter with our office and continues through any procedure or treatment to full recovery.
At our office you can rest easy knowing we care not only for your presenting problem, but also evaluate and assist with any other problems (medical, psychological, and social) as well. We do everything we can to match your desires and needs to what is possible and reasonable for you. We provide time to listen to you, discuss your desires with Dr. Buchanan and for a thorough examination. Following this, we develop an individual care plan with your input. This plan considers your specific goals and matches them with what your body type will allow and what the latest techniques can accomplish. These techniques are designed to reduce or eliminate scars, reduce bruising, and speed healing time and recovery. Many procedures are done endoscopically or with more advanced techniques which provide better results but smaller or almost non-existent incisions. All anesthesia, when needed, is provided by Board Certified Anesthesiologists. If incisional surgery is not for you, we now have methods to correct many facial (and some elsewhere) problems using new instrumentation, products off the shelf or your own tissues.
We take safety very serious. We carefully screen you before any procedure or surgery to reduce risks from the procedure or surgery. We offer everyone, even those for minor injections, medication to reduce bruising and speed its resolution. We provide this medication, plus vitamins, and minerals specifically formulated to speed healing and reduce healing complications to everyone undergoing a major surgical procedure. During the procedure, we monitor everyone appropriately, and, if indicated, use prophylactic measures (such as anti-thrombosis leg compression devices) to prevent even unlikely complications.
So call today to schedule your complimentary consultation and see what Dr. Buchanan and his staff can do for you! You will be glad you did.
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You are provided today's most comprehensive plastic surgery in comfort and serenity.
You are listened to, and your desires and needs are combined with what is currently possible to achieve those desires in the safest and most effective manner with the least effort and fastest or no recovery.
You are provided total service and care with compassion and understanding in a friendly, comfortable environment.
You are provided the highest level of integrity, service orientation, attitude and ethics.
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Some of our most asked about procedures:Eye Lid Lift Surgery (Blepharoplasty), Facial Cosmetic Surgery, BOTOX® Injections Treatment, Rosacea Treatment, AntiWrinkle Skin Creams.
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E-mails (1 month apart) from an older lady from a mid sized GA town following facial rejuvenation. 1) "I wanted to share with you comments I received today at my first outing venture to the country club here (three weeks post surgery). Two friends said, “You look great. You look so rested.” One friend who is a plastic surgery aficionado from Atlantis, said ”It is the best I have ever seen (quite a complement since she has seen a lot). You are not pulled too tight. It is fantastic! Who did it?” 2) “I just wanted to tell you about my visit this week to my dermatologist for my regular checkup. When I told him about my surgery, he asked who did it because he has patients who ask him all the time for names of surgeons. He said it was the best that he has seen! Too often, he said, it looks way overdone, and mine looks perfect.( he sees patients done by our 7 plastic surgeons here and by several in Atlanta.)
