Monday, February 21, 2011

Introducing Dr. Walden's Calendar Girls of 2011!

Welcome to 2011! Yes, we are late getting started showing you our calendar girls, but we've had a few things going on :)

Anyway, we'd like to showcase some of our favorite patients month by month this year starting with Allison! She is a lovely young woman who is beautiful and was confident enough in herself to research and choose to undergo rhinoplasty, or nasal reshaping surgery. She had an awesome outlook on things, and her journey is documented on her own YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Allybaley.

We love Ally at our office, as she really exemplifies a confident young lady who has understood how plastic surgery can be used to enhance your outer beauty in the presence of an already strong self-confidence and inner beauty.  (PS: Mom was on board also!!)
Check her out on this video:
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Monday, February 14, 2011

The "Gammy" Awards





Whether they stole the show in a mini, or were sexily peaking out from underneath the slit of a gown, beautiful legs were a full on accessory at last night's grammy awards. Some of these ladies could have gotten away with wearing no makeup at all since the viewer's eye was never going to make it above the waist anyway. Jennifer Lopez's sticks looked so hot I wouldn't have noticed if she still had a towel on her head!

Long, thin, toned, cellulite & spider vein free legs are every woman's dream and if great legs were easy to come by the floor length gown probably would have been done away with a long time ago. You don't hear us plastic surgery folks talking about legs all that much but I assure you this is not because women don't consider it a problem area. These days you can get rid of your wrinkles during a lunch break, and going from an A to a C cup takes about as long as a yoga class. Making legs look prettier is unfortunately not such an easy task...liposuction can leave a legacy of excess skin and dimpling behind while none of the newer skin tightening devices offer predictable or long term results. Then there is the infamous thigh lift which in theory sounds great until you start talking scars and recovery, not such a panacea anymore...and my favorite, if all the money spent on cellulite creams that do nothing went to starving children in Africa they would have the same childhood obesity problem we do. Made my point?

Is all hope lost? Of course not! There are many people who are good candidates for leg liposuction and I think as the non-surgical tightening devices continue to evolve the results will improve greatly. Spider veins respond well to traditional sclerotherapy which works by collapsing the vein (don't worry, they're so small your circulatory system won't even know they're gone!) or laser therapy. Diet and exercise are imperative to minimizing leg fat, toning, and improving circulation so don't expect your doctor to do it all. With a strong doctor-patient team effort beautiful legs can be your best accessory too.

Has Eva had liposuction? Did Jenny from the block need sclerotherapy after the birth of the twins? These are hard procedures to detect. Unlike the guessing game of "did she or didn't she" with a breast augmentation these more subtle fixes can stay under the plastic surgery radar. This is of course a good thing for the patient and as much as I can't tell you for 'fairly certain' who's had what of the celebrity sect, I can assure you if there has been a need it's been done.

So ladies, go out there and invest in a good pair of sneakers for the gym, heels for those big nights out (nothing elongates legs like 5 inch stilettos) , and follow up with your plastic surgeon for the rest!



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Thursday, February 10, 2011
















In order of appearance:
Modigliani's Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne
Brueghel's Flowers in a Vase
Schiele's Blonde sketch, 1912
Claude Monet in his garden
Still of Christina Ricci in Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66
Still from Dogtooth
Jil Sander pants (season?)
Still from Stan Brakhage's A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea
Reality Bites promo shot (can we talk about J Garofalo's outfit for a second)
Another still from Buffalo '66
Still from a Jonas Mekas film (Walden, I think)
Excerpt from An Object of Beauty via
Own shot
Source unknown (kick ass outfits though)
Frida Gustavsson via
Robert Frank's Home Improvements
William Faulkner wearing a very desirable tweed blazer (*the elbows*)
Broadcast's tune Corporeal (long live Trish Keenan)
+ what I wore today - Old Navy red plaid blouse, H&M cream wool-y cardigan, thrifted skirt/belt/brooch
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Monday, February 7, 2011

Laugh of the day: Your typical plastic surgery ER consult during residency

One of the most grueling things during surgical training is emergency room call, where you have to make yourself available for services 24/7. In plastic surgery there are 2 things that torture you
1) hand injuries - which inevitably happen late at night and can require urgent multi-hour surgery

2) calls to the children's hospital for lacerations.

Dealing with pediatric patients can be very tricky as they are difficult to anesthetize to repair even simple lacerations. What in an adult can take several minutes, can take an hour+ by the time everything is set up. Part of the frustration involves the sometimes "under informed" phone calls that usually come from a desk clerk or nurse who has little to no idea why they're calling you. Someone took the time to make a classic parody of this below. Too true & too funny!





Rob
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Not Just An American Dream


In case anyone was wondering whether or not the plastic surgery obsession was just an American thing, it was confirmed this week by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery that the folks across the pond are equally has addicted. The British newspaper, The Telegraph, reported earlier in the week that the BAAPS released their plastic surgery statistics for 2010 with many procedures showing significant increases from 2009.

One of the most dramatic increases was the number of Breast Augmentations done on English soil last year. BAAPS reported 9,430 cases in 2010, up 10% from the previous year. British plastic surgeons are attributing this in large part to Mad Men actress Christina Hendricks curvaceous figure. The Telegraph quotes a sources as saying, "Christina Hendricks is gorgeous, and the hourglass figure is definitely back in fashion. Let's just say that heroin chic isn't the big thing at the moment." Poor Kate Moss. It will be interesting to see if she shows up in the tabloids with double d's in the near future...




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