With every breast augmentation patient in Santa Barbara, I go over the various types of breast implants, the various pockets that breast implants can be placed in, and additionally the different incisions that can be used to place the breast implant into the breast pocket.  With respect to this last issue, I think there is some helpful information that has recently been published.  (more…)

We are seeing more and more women come from Beverly Hills and Hollywood to have their plastic surgery in Santa Barbara.  I find this a very interesting phenomenon.  I’ve never been one to gawk at celebrities- I see them as people just like you and I, with very interesting careers.  (I have some friends, whoever, that I’m convinced only visit me both here in Santa Barbara and also at my home in Aspen because they like to see and be seen with the rich and famous.)  Personally, I feel that privacy issues are of ultimate importance, and as I refuse to divulge anything about my patients (more…)

I’ve finally been persuaded to put up a Facebook page for our office, which you can find HERE.  I’m seeing more and more questionable information out there, and so I think that the tools of social networking may be an excellent way for patients to have access to us, and additionally allow patients to be made aware of things going on in the world of plastic surgery in Santa Barbara and Montecito.  Through Facebook, I’m hoping to be able to make people aware of things going on at the office, and special situations such as our “Fillers for Firefighters� event which you can read about below.  So visit our Facebook page, become a fan, and keep up to date!!!!

Recently, our entire Santa Barbara community was affected by the Jesusita fire, from Goleta to Montecito.  Personally, my wife and I hosted evacuees from the foothills, and my wife additionally volunteered at the call center to help provide information regarding the Jesusita Fire.  Only by the outstanding work of the firefighters was the home of our nurse, Suzanne, spared.  Homes all around hers were unfortunately destroyed, and despite the fire burning down the tool shed in the back yard, and even charring the house itself, the firefighters were able to save her home and we are all so very grateful to them.

Although I’ve been buying dinners for firefighters at any restaurant that I see them at, I’m hoping to do more for the brave men and women that fought the Jesusita fire here in Santa Barbara.  I am going to be donating 100% of our profit from all injectables- fillers and additionally BOTOX® as well, from now to the end of June, to the Santa Barbara Fire Department.  I’m calling the event, “FILLERS FOR FIREFIGHTING�.
Soft tissue fillers including Retylane®, Juviderm™, and Evolence™ will be available, as well as BOTOX® used to treat dynamic wrinkles.  I hope that our patients will enjoy not only the outstanding results obtained from getting their fillers and BOTOX® performed by a plastic surgeon himself, but also receive a sense of pride that the means to enhance their beauty will additionally be going to a good cause.  We are expecting to raise several thousands of dollars to donate to the Santa Barbara Fire Department as a thank you for their skill and valor fighting the Jesusita Fire.

I’m posting this on our “What’s New� page of this website as well, and I hope you will tell your friends and spread the word as much as possible.  I’m hoping to raise as much as possible by donating the entire profit from our medical injectables for the next 6 weeks.