Have you thought about cosmetic surgery but always been a little timid about taking the next step? You are not alone. Many women secretly wish they could correct a flaw in their appearance. Some would love to erase those telltale signs of aging that make them look older than they feel. Businesswomen rightfully worry that looking too mature puts them at a competitive disadvantage. Women who fought hard to win the battle of the bulge find the sagging skin left after weight loss utterly demoralizing.
Sometimes it's a simple desire to fit into clothes that leads women to consider plastic surgery. We want our curves to match the darts and flares of our clothing. As we move through life, it’s discouraging to find that our bodies have sagged inches off the mark! We know cosmetic surgery can solve our problems, but we’re hesitant to take the plunge.
Dr. Vicente Poblete and the caring staff at Accentuate Within Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery Center in Avon Lake, Ohio understand your concerns. That is why we include resources to educate our patients, such as our Patient Diaries, on our website. Patient Diaries allow you to read about the real-life plastic surgery experiences of Cleveland women just like yourself. Each patient story chronicles a different Cleveland cosmetic surgery experience through the eyes of an Accentuate Within patient. Before and after patient photographs allow you to observe the real body changes made possible by cosmetic surgery. You might also want to view our Patient Gallery for more before and after photographs to see the difference cosmetic surgery can make.
If you're considering plastic surgery, the caring staff at Accentuate Within wants you to feel comfortable with your decision. We will answer all your questions and even arrange for you to talk with a former Cleveland cosmetic surgery patient about their experience. Let plastic surgery unleash your hidden beauty.
One of the most requested Cleveland plastic surgery procedures, tummy tucks, or abdominoplasty, surgically remove loose skin, fat deposits and stretch marks in the abdominal area. Multiple pregnancies, substantial weight loss or genetics can stretch skin, muscles and tissue past its ability to "snap back," giving your stomach a "paunchy" appearance or leaving unsightly folds of loose skin hanging from the stomach area. Even dedicated dieting and exercise can fail to restore elasticity. A tummy tuck can restore your body's balance and shape.
Accentuate Within Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery Center in Avon Lake, Ohio offers three types of tummy tucks: full tummy tuck, mini tummy tuck and lipo tummy tuck which combines liposuction with a mini tuck. In all three, an incision is made above the pubic area from hip to hip. While the mini tuck incision is shorter, the incision will leave a permanent scar that will fade over time. Skilled plastic surgeons like Dr. Poblete are able to position the incision so that it will be hidden by most underwear and bathing suits.
In performing tummy tucks, the abdominal skin is pulled up and the vertical abdominal muscles are stitched together and tightened. In a full tuck, a second incision is made around the belly button allowing the skin to be lifted higher and a larger expanse of muscle to be repaired. A mini tuck requires only a single incision, leaving the belly button intact. A lipo mini tuck includes liposuction of excess fat from the stomach area to improve body profile.
Skin is laid back over the abdomen, sutured and excess skin removed. Depending on the procedure selected, surgery generally lasts 2 to 5 hours, and patients will experience some pain and bruising. Patients are usually able to return to work in 1 week and resume normal activities in about 3 weeks.
If we only knew then what we know now we would never have spent hours at the beach or around the pool baking in that luscious golden tan. Of course, as you turned your youthful face to follow the sun's rays, you didn't know your skin would pay such a heavy price decades later. Now when you look in the mirror you see the creeping damage caused by hours in the sun and, let's be honest, aging.
Those awful fine lines that radiate out from your once plump and sensuous lips are beginning to give you that unnatural "old lady pucker." You've seen it on your grandmother. Tiny age lines and deeper crevices caused by cumulative sun damage ring the lips, creating an unattractive puckery look. Lipstick migrates along the cracks in horrifying red rivers toward nose, cheeks and chin. Even beauty-conscious older women cannot stop the ravages of time. Lip liner can only do so much! Fortunately, non-invasive cosmetic surgery can give us back our youthful appearance.
Accentuate Within offers non-invasive facial rejuvenation to give Cleveland, Akron, Lorain and Sandusky area women the younger, fresher, healthier-looking skin they desire. Experienced cosmetic and plastic surgeon Dr. Vicente Poblete expertly applies Botox and dermal cosmetic tissue fillers to banish those unsightly fine lines around lips and eyes caused by aging and cumulative sun damage. Dr. Poblete may also combine Botox and dermal cosmetic filler treatments with the use of advanced anti-aging skin health products to keep your face looking fresh and beautiful.
The popularity of non-surgical cosmetic procedures like Botox outnumbered surgical procedures by 8 to 1 in 2008, according to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Before deciding to undergo cosmetic surgery, women are finding extremely satisfactory results can be achieved with non-invasive facial rejuvenation treatments at Accentuate Within.
Turkeys are such imposing looking birds. Not particularly beautiful, but regal in their size and carriage. Since the Thanksgiving weekend, turkeys have been in the news. An Ohio turkey recently became the first turkey to win Best of Show in the 54-year history of the Ohio National Poultry Show. Bred for its looks not for eating, the Royal Palm turkey is a stunning bird with a gorgeous coat of black-tipped, silvery-white feathers. She's quite a beauty until you look her in the eye. Yep, like all turkeys, the regal Royal Palm suffers from dreaded "turkey neck."
Unfortunately, the wrinkly folds of skin referred to as "turkey neck" are among the less attractive body changes that occur with age. Loss of skin elasticity, weakening of the support for the neck muscles, significant weight loss or the inexorable force of gravity over time can produce unattractive wrinkles of excess skin along the neck. A Cleveland cosmetic surgery neck lift can remove the unsightly wattles of "turkey neck" and create smooth, youthful-looking skin.
When performed by an experienced Cleveland board-certified cosmetic surgeon like Avon Lake's Dr. J. Vicente Poblete, neck contouring plastic surgery removes unattractive excess skin and fat, creating lovely, smooth skin. During your personal consultation, Dr. Poblete and the caring staff at Accentuate Within will listen to your concerns about your appearance. They will discuss various options that can be used to improve your appearance. The most typical procedures for correcting "turkey neck" include a neck lift, Smart Lipo or a combination of the two.
Dr. Poblete will develop an individualized treatment program that will address your concerns and restore your confidence in your appearance. The attentive staff at Accentuate Within can show you before and after photographs of other Cleveland area patients who have undergone the cosmetic surgery procedures you have selected. If you wish, you can even talk to a former Cleveland plastic surgery patient about their successful cosmetic surgery experience with Dr. Poblete and Accentuate Within.
This was the year you finally did it. After years of dragging around those unattractive excess pounds, you finally made good on your promise to yourself to lose weight and keep it off. Maybe you were inspired by television's The Biggest Loser. Maybe someone make an unkind joke about your "pregnancy." Maybe the wheezing as you climbed the stairs gave you a scare. Maybe you finally listened to your doctor's warnings about heart risk and diabetes. Whatever your motivation for taking better care of yourself, we're sure it wasn't easy and we congratulate you on your accomplishment.
Losing weight is a long, difficult process that requires dedication, commitment, sacrifice and lots of sweat. The goal of a slimmer, trimmer, healthier you, makes it all worthwhile, but sometimes the results can be disappointing. As you've power walked your way around the neighborhood, pedaled away furiously on your stationary bike and sweat to the beat at your local gym, one thing has kept you going. In your mind's eye you have pictured yourself slim, svelte and fabulous. Unfortunately, when you look in the mirror all these months later what you see is flaccid, drooping breasts, wrinkly upper arm "wings," puckery thighs and, worst of all, an ugly saddlebag of stretched belly skin dropping across your lower abdomen. This can't be what you worked so hard to achieve.
What most women and men don't realize is that skin stretched by fat for long periods loses some of its elasticity. Age and rapid weight loss can exacerbate the problem. When you remove the fat that plumped and stretched your skin, the skin may not "snap back" to its former shape. You're left with unsightly folds of skin draping your body. Cosmetic and plastic surgery can remove that excess skin and restore your body shape to give you the attractive appearance you worked so hard to achieve. Cosmetic surgery after significant weight loss has been increasing steadily in Northeast Ohio and the rest of the country, as noted in the Aesthetic Society's latest statistics.