Category: Health/Wellness

Back pain is like the common cold – nearly all of us will have to deal with it at some point.  The good news is that most back pain will go away with minimal treatment. This type of pain is typically “acute,” meaning it comes on...

In the 1990s, thread lifts came about and had some success, but with lots of complications because they used permanent threads. They had “barbs,” allowing them to lift the face. Because of the complications, these original...

Since I began using laser light therapy in 2009, it has truly been one of my practice’s greatest treatment tools. Laser therapy helps technologically advanced practices achieve greater results for our patients with dramatically...

Highlighting its nationally recognized achievements in patient safety and quality, Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) was named a 2022 Top General Hospital nationally by The Leapfrog Group, a watchdog organization that is widely...

The word “plastic” in the term “plastic surgery” evolved from the Greek word “plastikos,” meaning “to mold.”  The first textbook on plastic surgery was written by Gaspar Tagliacozzi in the 1500s. He wrote about the...

First, one should know that having one’s face be symmetrical would be very rare. After all, our liver is on the right, the heart is on the left, pancreas on the left, and so forth. Usually, one leg is a little longer than the...

For a basic understanding of what happens to people’s faces with age, we have aging skin with wrinkles, age spots, loss of elasticity, and loss of volume. The latter occurs from diminished fat and bone. Regarding turning back...