There are many reasons not to smoke. Everybody knows it is not good for you. Smoking can cause heart disease and cancer. It causes bad breath and makes your clothes smell. But if you are having cosmetic plastic surgery there are very specific reasons why you should not smoke either […]
In his more than 24 years in private practice, board certified plastic surgeon Robert Rothfield, MD has answered many patient questions about the relationship between dieting, weight loss, and plastic surgery. In this blog from 2009, Dr. Rothfield provides his opinion on when weight loss should be accomplished to maximize […]
When considering a plastic surgeon to perform the surgical procedures you desire, it is vital to your safety and the quality of your results to make sure you ask the right preliminary questions. Before you make a commitment, Weston plastic surgeon Robert E. Rothfield, MD, FACS, recommends making these five […]
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), patients had 7.2 million anatomic sites treated with BOTOX® Cosmetic injections in 2017—making it the #1 minimally invasive cosmetic procedure of the year. Weston plastic surgeon Robert Rothfield, MD believes the two main reasons BOTOX® Cosmetic has retained its popularity over […]
What is the perfect size breast implant? This is one of the most common questions asked by women considering breast augmentation. The answer is… it depends. It depends on the cup size the patient thinks she wants, it depends on the particular anatomy and measurements of the patient, and it […]
The odds are that at some point, if you have breast implants, you will change them. Sometimes the change is simply to make the breasts larger by replacing the current implant with a larger implant. Or it may be to switch from an older saline implant to one of the […]
Our plastic surgeon—Robert E. Rothfield, MD, FACS—shares his philosophy on combining multiple surgical procedures: I am not a fan of the “extreme makeover” approach to plastic surgery that has been popularized on television. In this process, multiple unrelated procedures are performed over many hours in a single day, which could […]