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There has been a lot of media coverage lately on breast implant illness and breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL). This is a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or cancer of the immune system that has been linked to textured breast implants. Patients present with a late-occurring seroma or swelling in the breast pocket around… [Read More]

My vocation, at its core, is about helping my patients to look and feel their best. Typically, this entails one of two things. I am either working with you to prevent the early signs of aging or erase them altogether. And though I have lots of tools in my tool chest for rejuvenating a patient’s… [Read More]

As I write this, snow is falling outside and the temperature in Boston is a “brrrr” inducing 28°. Welcome to winter — the season that just seems to drag on and on and on. This is the time of year where I find myself dreaming of Miami, where it’s a balmy 79° and sunny. If… [Read More]

February has become, unofficially, lip augmentation month in my office. I think it’s thanks to Valentine’s Day. The mouth gets a lot of air time in the weeks leading up to February 14. Everyone wants a kissable pout. Nothing is more inviting than full, lush lips…. well, unless those lips are so full that they… [Read More]

As a Boston native, I grew up reading Boston Magazine. For the past 40 years, it’s been a go-to reference for the best and the brightest that our city has to offer. So, you can imagine how excited I was to find out that both I and my mentor and colleague Dr. Leonard Miller made… [Read More]

As a health and beauty consumer, you may have noticed a recent backlash against the term “anti-aging”. Allure was the first magazine to ban the word from its pages, but other companies are quickly following suit. The reason is that by tacking the word “anti” in front of “aging”, it makes it sound as if… [Read More]

There are close to a thousand famous quotes about the eyes. Shakespeare wrote about the eyes being “the windows to the soul” while Thoreau thought that they were “the jewel of the body”. But both understood that our eyes, as a direct reflection of our emotions, are probably the most important feature on the face…. [Read More]

Are your hands a dead giveaway of your actual age? My guess is that the answer to that question is “yes”. Most of us are pretty aware (sometimes too aware) of how the aging process affects our face and neck. But the hands get the same exposure to the elements as the face yet we… [Read More]

You might think me crazy for talking about the holidays when it’s not even sweater weather yet, but I subscribe to the theory that the day after Labor Day is Christmas. There is just something turbocharged about the next four months. They speed by. So now is the perfect time to start thinking about how… [Read More]

My goal with any procedure is a happy patient. I want you to love how you look. Delivering an exemplary aesthetic result is a given. But believe it or not, this isn’t always enough. Managing a patient’s expectations can be just as important as my skill as a surgeon. Let’s take laser skin resurfacing as… [Read More]