Plastic Surgery
Here's What You Can Expect from Cosmetic Surgery
By Harvey Jason Blum
Are you at the point in your life
when looking in the mirror raises anxiety about aging? Your face
doesn't look like it did twenty years ago, your body is out of shape
and you know longer feel as you did when you were thirty?
So what do you do? Exercise? Yes. Check your eating habits?
Yes. Cosmetic surgery? Well, you first must check if it's for you
and this involves a visit to a physician for a discussion of what it
might do for you and what this procedure will cost.
The U.S. male skin care market is now worth a staggering $3.5 billion. With men believing that a youthful, vigorous appearance is a goal, especially when they reach their 40s, 50s, and 60s. To effect change, some of today's men are turning to plastic surgery The top men's cosmetic surgery procedures are , hair transplants, nose fixing, liposuction, eyelid surgery and breast reduction. Here's a breakdown of costs of some popular cosmetic surgery procedures:
Facelift from between $5000 to $10000
Eyelid surgery from $2000
Nose fixing (rhinoplasty) from $3000
Liposuction from $2000.
Always check with the appropriate and accredited cosmetic surgery physician for actual rates
What do you do now?
First check with your primary physician for there might be alternatives to surgery, such as change of lifestyle or medication.
Rhytidectomy, the technical term for a facelift is the surgical procedure to improve visible signs of aging in the face and neck.
Here's
What A Facelift Can Do.
1. Fix sagging in the mid-face area.
2. Correct deep creases between the nose and mouth.
3. Correct deep creases below your eyelids.
4. Tighten skin under the skin and jaw.
5. Fix muscle tone in the lower face, where jowls form.
The Surgical Procedure
1. Typically, an incision begins under the hairline and continues
behind the ear. This will reduce sagging by tightening the
underlying tissue.
2. Swelling, redness and bruising resulting from the facelift will
begin to subside within four to six weeks.
3. Final results may appear in one or
two months, with incision lines fading with a year. Each procedure
involves risks. Check with your surgeon for possible risks
pertaining to procedure you are considering.
Vasectomy Reversal: The Solution For You?
By Mark Slocum
More than half a million have a vasectomy each year, yet two to six percent of them — some 10,000 to 30,000 men — decide later on to have the vasectomy reversed. What happens in the surgery? Ducts that carry sperm from the testicles into the semen are reconnected. With a successful vasectomy reversal, sperm are present in your semen again.
First you and your spouse should check with a physician to determine whether both of you are fertile. Second, know the cost. Vasectomy reversal can cost between $6,000 and $15,000. And a word of caution the procedure doesn't always work and most likely it isn't covered by insurance.
What to expect and how to prepare.
OK, what do you do first. Interview your prospective doctor. Ask how many procedures your physician has performed and how many were successful. Though the operation is done on an out patient basis, determine the cost, including the hospital stay. Once you decided on a doctor, he or she will advise you not to take aspirin or ibuprofen for two weeks before and after the surgery, because they act as blood thinners. Instead it will be recommended that you use acetaminophen ( Tylenol, etc.) for headaches and discomfort.
You will check into a hospital. Surgery takes from two to four hours, plus time to recover from anesthesia. You could choose to ask your doctor to save some of your sperm during the procedure for freezing. This is a precaution, in case the procedure doesn't take. A small number of vasectomy reversals do not work.
After the vasectomy reversal the man will stay in the hospital for a few hours, or overnight. Your surgeon will make sure recovery is on course and look for any problems that may arise. Don't drive yourself home. Arrange for someone to drive you home after surgery.
For the first four weeks after the surgery, do not engage in sexual intercourse. Patients are also cautioned to avoid showering and swimming pools for a few days after the procedure.