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Abdomen
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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extensive experience in performing abdominal cosmetic surgery utilizing techniqes which address the various contributing factors to the patient's deformity, including skin, subcutaneous fat and muscle wall applying combined techiques of liposculptures and demolipectomy
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Abdominal Liposuction (Liposculpture)
Years Performed: 20 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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many years of experience in the technique having utilized the various types of liposuction including tumescent and ultrasonic methods. A sense of judgement in the surgical plan and execution. Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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Abdominoplasty (Tummy Tuck)
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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An extensive experience performing abdominoplasties addressing the various tissues requiring repair, including skin, subcutaneous fat and muscle. My abdominoplasty experience has included a growing number of patients who have undergone massive weight loss following gastric bypass or banding surgery for morbid obesity. Frequently this procedure is perfomed in combination with breast surgery, either reduction, lift or augmentation - lift. The results can be dramatic and rewarding to the patient Ideal Candidate:
Protruding abdomen; excess fat and skin; weak abdominal muscles
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Arm Lifts (Brachioplasty)
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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years of experience in applying both dermolipectomy combined with liposuction in patients ranging from those with moderate redundancy to extensive deformities following large amounts of weight loss in patients who have undergone gastric bypass/banding procedures Ideal Candidate:
Excess skin and fat on underside of arm
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Arm Liposuction
Years Performed: 20 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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years of experience with the various types of liposculpture including tumescent and ultrasonic techniques Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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many years of experience utilizing the various techniques including liposculpture and dermolipectomy Ideal Candidate:
Skin laxity without significant fat deposits
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Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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extensive experience in the various techniques and types of implants including saline, cohesive gel round and anatomically shaped silicone implants. During a comprehensive consultation process the breast augmentation patient is offered a thorough explanation of the various options for both the type and location of the implant that would be optimal for her specific physical dimensions. The patient and I decide together which implant would most achieve a result that aims at looking natural. Ideal Candidate:
Small, disproportionate breasts
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many years and a vast experience in the various techniques of breast surgery Ideal Candidate:
Sagging, poorly shaped breasts
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Breast Reduction Surgery
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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A vast experience in breast reduction surgery performed on thousands of patients Ideal Candidate:
Sagging, poorly shaped breasts
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Breast Symmetry
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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A vast experience in breast surgery utilizing various techniques to achieve the optimal result Ideal Candidate:
Sagging, poorly shaped breasts
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Years Performed: 5 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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With 25 years of experience in breast augmentation I have utlized the various generations of breast implants, including saline implants, and the new generation of cohesive gel, round and anatomically shaped implants. I have used anatomical implants not just to augment but also to produce a "lift" without the scarring of a mastopexy in those patients with some droopiness to the breast. The advantage of the anatomical implant is the ability to individualize to the patient's chest dimensions.
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extensive experience and sound judgement in various body cosmetic surgery procedures including breast, abdomen, thighs and arms.
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Cosmetic Surgery of the Face
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Years of experience, surgical technique and a conservative sense of judgement in perfoming various facial cosmetic surgery procedures including browlifts, facelift with SMAS plication, liposuction of the face and neck, rhinoplasties and otoplasties.
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Ear Surgery (Otoplasty)
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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years of experience performing this surgery mostly on children but also adults Ideal Candidate:
Protruding or disproportionate ears
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extensive experience with a sense of judgement with a conservative approach aimed at achieving a natural rather than operated look Ideal Candidate:
excess fat, wrinkled, drooping skin of upper eyelids; bags, puffiness under eyes
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Face Lift Surgery (Rhytidectomy)
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Years of experience utlizing combined techniques where necessary to achieve optimal result, including liposuction, SMAS plication and rhytidectomy aimed at avoiding the unnaturally tight appearance seen all too often. Ideal Candidate:
Loose skin, deep lines, wrinkles, jowls
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Facial Cosmetic Surgery
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Years of experience, surgical technique and a conservative sense of judgement in perfoming various facial cosmetic surgery procedures including browlifts, facelift with SMAS plication, liposuction of the face and neck, rhinoplasties and otoplasties.
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Facial Liposuction
Years Performed: 20 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Years of experience performing liposuction either as an isolated procedure on submental and submandibular region and/or cheeks in the younger patient, or as an adjunctive tool combined with skin and muscle tightening in a rejuvenative facelift procedure. Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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Gynecomastia (Male Breast Reduction)
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Many years and vast experience performing surgery on the male breast utilizing either liposuction alone (tumescent or ultrasonic) in the male with fatty breasts or combined with excision of the glandular breast, utilizing minila scars located in the camouflaged junction between the areola and the skin Ideal Candidate:
Enlarged male breasts
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Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Local anesthetic procedure utlizing sling, de-epithelialized areolar flaps that support the nipple in its projected position to minimize the likelihood of recurrence of nipple inversion
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Leg Lift
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Years experience with medial thigh lift procedures in patients ranging from those with moderate skin laxity to those with extreme skin excess following massive weight loss secondary to gastric bypass, partitioning or banding procedures. The procedure of thigh lift must be individualized to the patient's specific dimension of skin redundancy whether it be in the upper inner thigh or circumferencially. Occasionally liposuction is utilized in combination with skin resection to optimize result.
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Lipoplasty (Liposuction Surgery)
Years Performed: 20 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Many years and thousands of cases of experience in perfoming various techniques of liposuction including tumescent and ultrasonic, either as isolated procedures or combined with skin reduction and muscle tightening procedures. The key is to avoid excessive removal of fat to achieve as natural a result as possible and minimize contour irregularities. The key is judgement and experience. Liposuction is NOT a weight loss procedure. Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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Liposuction Surgery (Lipoplasty)
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Many years and thousands of cases of experience in perfoming various techniques of liposuction including tumescent and ultrasonic, either as isolated procedures or combined with skin reduction and muscle tightening procedures. The key is to avoid excessive removal of fat to achieve as natural a result as possible and minimize contour irregularities. The key is judgement and experience. Liposuction is NOT a weight loss procedure. Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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Lower Eyelid Surgery (Blepharoplasty)
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Extensive experience performing lower blepharoplasties, usually combined with upper blephs and/or facelift. Optimally the procedure is carried out under local anesthetic to facilitate assessment of how much skin is safe to remove in order to minimize the risk of ectropion (lower lid excessively pulled down). The amount of fat removal or replacement must be properly and conservatively judged to avoid a hollowed out appearance due to excessive fat removal. Judgement, experience and technique. Ideal Candidate:
excess fat, wrinkled, drooping skin of upper eyelids; bags, puffiness under eyes
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Male Liposuction
Years Performed: 20 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Extensive experience utilizing various techniques including tumescent and ultrasonic liposuction either as isolated procedures or combined with skin reduction and muscle tightening. Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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Neck Lift
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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As a natural part of a facelift procedure the neck is the area most dramatically tightened and smoothed by a procedure which tightens both the muscle and skin. Ideal Candidate:
Loose skin, deep lines, wrinkles, jowls
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Neck Liposuction
Years Performed: 20 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Vast experience performing liposuction in the neck both as an isolated procedure in the younger pateint with a hereditary full neck or as a part of the rejuvenative procedure in an older patient undergoing a facelift. Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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Nipple Inversion Surgery
Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Local anesthetic procedure utlizing sling, de-epithelialized areolar flaps that support the nipple in its projected position to minimize the likelihood of recurrence of nipple inversion
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Years Performed: 15 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Injection of fillers such as Restylane was preceded by experience utilizing the previous materials including collagen. In more recent years have also utliized Botox to address creases in glabellar, forehead and periorbital regions.
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Non-Surgical Cosmetic Procedures
Years Performed: 20 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Injection of fillers such as Restylane was preceded by experience utilizing the previous materials including collagen. In more recent years have also utliized Botox to address creases in glabellar, forehead and periorbital regions.
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Perlane® Injections
Years Performed: 10 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Extensive experience utilizing Perlane to fill in larger defects and augment lips utilizing Perlane, some times in combination with Restylane where required.
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Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Many years and an extensive experience in rhinoplasty surgery with an emphasis on the natural, unoperated look where thenose is consistent with the patient's ethnic background. Ideal Candidate:
Nose too large, wide, or tip needs reshaping
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Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Extensive experience on perfoming thigh lifts, either in combination with liposuction or as an isolated skin tightening procedure. Patients have ranged from the younger patient who has skin excess in the upper inner thigh who can be improved from an upward advancement of the skin with a resultant scar in the groin crease, to the massive weight loss patient who has undergone gastric banding/bypass and has skin excess in all dimensions requiring resection along entire inner length of the thigh. Ideal Candidate:
Loose, excess skin
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Thigh Liposculpture
Years Performed: 20 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Years experience performing liposculpture of outer hips, inner thigh, anterior thigh, utilizing various types of liposuction techniques including tumescent and ultrasonic liposuction. Ideal Candidate:
Normal weight with isolated fatty areas
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Tumescent Liposuction
Years Performed: 15 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Vast experience perfoorming liposuction utilizing tumescent technique on all areas of the body trqaditionally amenable to liposuction other than calves. I prefer not to perform calf liposuction because of my concern regarding phlebitis in the lower leg. My experience has provided me with an enhanced ability to judge the amount of fat that is optimal and safe to remove so as to produce the most natural result and minimize the risk of contour irregularities Ideal Candidate:
pockets of fat around abdomen, thighs, buttocks, arms, or back
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Years Performed: 25 Approx Cost with this Doctor:
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Extensive experience perfoming upper blepharoplasties under local anesthesia. The surgery is frequently performed as an isolated procedure but also in combination with lower lids and/or facelift. The result is a more alert, refreshed appearance. The procedure usually takes about 30 minutes with minimal downtime. Ideal Candidate:
excess fat, wrinkled, drooping skin of upper eyelids; bags, puffiness under eyes
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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.
Steve E.S. Samuel, MD, FRCSC - Gives FREE Consultations!
About Steve E.S. Samuel, MD, FRCSC - Toronto,
Ontario (ON)
Dr. Steve Samuel iscertified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in the specialty of Plastic Surgery. His training in Plastic Surgery was completed at the University of Toronto and he has been practising for the last 25 years in Toronto.
His approach to a consultation relating to a cosmetic problem will involve the obtaining of a complete history, including any medical or psychological contraindications to the operation the patient is seeking. An examination of the patient's area of cosmetic concern would determine whether the problem is amenable to significant improvement. The various options, both surgical and non-surgical would be discussed as well as the downsides, the potential complications and the recommendation of the surgeon as to whether surgery is recommended or not. Patients appreciate the honesty which puts their interest ahead of any other considerations.
Top Benefits:
Honest evaluation to the point of advising patients against surgery when the benefit of surgery will not significantly outweigh the downside.
A sense of judgement in analysis of the presenting problem
Extensive experience
Technical expertise
Pleasant office environment and helpful staff
Some of our most asked about procedures:Breast Augmentation (Breast Implants), Abdominoplasty (Tummy Tuck), Liposuction Surgery (Lipoplasty), Cosmetic Surgery of the Body, Body Contouring.
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