Face Lift Surgery (Rhytidectomy) Before and After Pictures by Joseph Rucker, MD, FACS

We all want to look our best and having a youthful appearance is often the key to an attractive face. Nevertheless, time, gravity, stress, and the elements are constantly working against us. The results can be seen on your face in the form of wrinkles, sagging skin, jowls, or a "turkey wattle" neck. It is so easy to improve these flaws with a neck or face lift in New York.

There seems to be a lot of attention recently about pain-free cosmetic procedures and especially breast augmentation. Most of this surrounds a new promising long-term local numbing medicine that has far-reaching implications. This local numbing medicine, specifically studied with breast augmentation, showed good results with little to no complications. This is potentially exciting to aesthetic patients who often fear discomfort associated with various cosmetic procedures. Often this is the only reason they do not proceed with their desires. However, there has been no study showing that any method of breast augmentation or use of special medicines has led to consistent “painless breast augmentations”.