Category Archives: Featured Patients

This month’s Featured Patient demonstrates Dr. Parker’s state-of-the-art facelift technique, designed to provide patients with a natural-looking, youthful appearance and lasting results. Today’s facelift is personalized for each patient and often includes non-surgical procedures to refine the patient’s final appearance. It’s a far cry from the results that could be obtained even 30 years back, …

This month, we are discussing the power of chin implants in improving facial aesthetics. This procedure is usually performed in less than 30 minutes under monitored sedation or general anesthesia. In this short time frame, a weak chin can be made stronger and in better proportion with other facial features, making it a quick yet …

This month’s featured patient underwent lipoabdominoplasty and liposuction of the hips during the same surgery to restore her midsection following multiple pregnancies. This powerful combination of procedures, which we perform frequently at the Parker Center, allowed us to achieve the following for this patient: remove excess skin and fat from the abdomen by combining liposuction with …

This month’s Featured Patient highlights facelift surgery. A well done, state of the art facelift should rejuvenate a patient to make them look more youthful and well rested, specifically avoiding an “operated look”. A recent study in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journal showed that patients  5 ½ years (on average) after their face lift …

This month’s featured patients address the topic of neck contouring. An attractive neck is seen as something very desirable—one that is long and slender, with smooth skin and a defined jaw line and chin. This appearance conveys youth, beauty, and femininity. Patient #1 As demonstrated by Patient #1, patients who have excess fatty tissue in …

This month’s Featured Patient demonstrates the correction of inverted nipples. We see an increasing number of patients bothered by this problem. It can occur at birth or later in life. An inverted nipple occurs when a portion of the nipple or the entire nipple is buried under the areolar surface. This can lead to problems …

In this month’s Featured Patient section, we discuss the importance of “” as an adjunct to our plastic surgery consultations and surgery, as well. At the Parker Center, all patients have high quality digital photographs taken by our professional photographer at the time of their consultation with Dr. Parker. For most of our procedures, our …

This month’s case deals with , enlargement of the male breast. This condition occurs in approximately 35% of males, often at the time of puberty and usually without a clear-cut cause. Male breast enlargement often regresses within several months after its onset. When the condition persists for more than 12 months, is unlikely to go away. …