Procedures & Conditions

This surgery helps your face look younger. It reduces the sagging skin and wrinkles that develop as part of the aging process. It gives your face a tighter, slimmer look.

This surgery removes unwanted fat cells from your body. It's not meant to be a weight loss technique. But it can change the look of specific parts of your body.

This is a nose surgery. It can change the shape of your nose, and some people choose it to improve the way their nose looks. Rhinoplasty can be used to correct a birth defect or repair the nose after an injury. And, it can improve some breathing problems.

This is a procedure to remove loose skin and fat from your stomach area. It tightens your abdomen, and gives it a more toned look. A tummy tuck can help you feel better about your body.

Breast implant surgery (also called breast augmentation) is a cosmetic procedure that changes the size of your breasts. Breast implants are put in above or below the chest muscle to make the breasts larger.

Mastopexy is a type of cosmetic surgery done to reshape the breasts. It is often called a breast lift. Having a breast lift changes the look of your breasts and may improve their appearance.

Breast lift and breast implants are 2 cosmetic surgeries that change the look and size of the breasts. A breast lift helps reshape breasts that have lost their firmness and sag or droop. Augmentation involves putting breast implants above or below the chest muscle, to make the breasts larger. Together, these procedures change the look and size of the breasts. This sheet tells you more about these surgeries and what to expect.

"Abdominoplasty ("tummy tuck") and breast augmentation (implants) are 2 cosmetic surgeries that may be done together."

Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) is a type of cosmetic surgery. It is most often done to improve the look of the eyelids. Both the upper and lower eyelids can be treated during the surgery.

A facelift (rhytidectomy) is a type of cosmetic surgery. It tightens and lifts loose, sagging skin in the face. It also helps reduce lines and wrinkles in the face.

During a tummy tuck, the surgeon removes excess fat and skin from your belly.

Breast reduction surgery is also called reduction mammoplasty. Fat, tissue, and skin are removed from the breasts to make them smaller. The size of the areola (dark skin around the nipple) may be reduced. And the nipple may be moved higher on the breast. Read on to learn more about the procedure.

If you've been injured and have a scar, scar revision surgery may help improve the look of the scar or make it less visible.

Liposuction is a type of cosmetic surgery to remove excess fat from specific body areas.

Abdominoplasty or tummy tuck can be done with liposuction to help remove excess fat and tighten up muscles and skin of the belley.

A skin graft is a piece of healthy skin (graft) that is moved from 1 part of your body to another. If you have a large wound, a skin graft can help close it. This allows the wound to heal. Or a skin graft can be used to treat a scar (a mark left after a wound has healed).

In some cases, scar revision surgery can help improve the look of a scar or make it less visible. If the scar tissue is tight and restricts movement of the skin, revision can improve this. Z-plasty is a method of scar revision.

You had a procedure called breast augmentation (enlargement). It is also known as augmentation mammoplasty. Here's what you need to do after this procedure.

You had a surgical procedure called rhinoplasty, which changes the structure and shape of the nose. Here's what you need to know following this procedure.

You're scheduled to have nasal surgery to improve the way your nose looks. Here's what you can expect from this type of procedure.

Subcutaneous mastectomy and chest contouring is done to give a person a more male-looking chest.

Male-to-female breast augmentation is done to give a person a more female-looking chest. A plastic surgeon increases breast size, often with implants.

Reduction thyrochondroplasty is done to give a person a more female-looking neck. A surgeon removes some of the Adam's apple.