Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) is designed to remove excess skin and muscle from the upper and lower eyelids. The procedure can correct drooping upper lids that tend to sag with time and the puffy bags below the eyes. Blepharoplasty can be done as a single procedure, or in conjunction with other facial surgery such as a facelift, browlift, or with LipoSelection.

Frown lines above our noses and in the middle of your forehead will give you an unwanted older appearance. Under stress and as we age, we tend to make faces that encourage the creases, giving us the serious, unhappy look. A brow lift improves these lines and is one of the only procedures that allows a plastic surgeon to access the hard to reach muscles that cause furrow lines.

Dr. Popham uses facial implants to improve and enhance facial contours. These implants help provide a more harmonious balance to your face and features so that you feel better about the way you look. Cheek and chin implants may help strengthen a jawline or bring the chin or cheekbones into balance with the rest of the face. Lip implants augment, alter, resize, reshape or lift your lips.

Ear surgery typically serves two functions: setting prominent ears back closer to the head, and reducing the size of large ears. Surgery may also be helpful for "lop ear," "cupped ear" and "shell ear," large or stretched earlobes, and lobes with large creases and wrinkles. Surgeons are also able to construct new ears for patients who are missing them from injury or other causes.

If you would like to improve the appearance of a scar, then you may wish to consider scar revision. A finer, less obvious scar can be the result, depending on your own healing capabilities. Initially, a freshly revised scar looks quite satisfactory. Then it can become red and firm. Gradually it softens and becomes more pale than the adjacent skin. Occasionally, steroid injections into the scar or dermabrasion is used to further refine the area.

CO2 laser resurfacing has been the "gold-standard" for skin rejuvenation for the past 10 years remaining one of our most powerful tool for treating acne scars, advanced sun-damage and wrinkles. Less vigorous Erbium laser resurfacing can be performed in the office with topical anesthesia for moderately wrinkled and sun-damaged skin with excellent results and short healing times.

Over time, the long-term effects of gravity, exposure to sun, dry air, and general stress takes its toll on an individual's face and neckline. Jowls can develop under the jawline with folds and fat deposits. Sometimes creases begin to form between the nose and the mouth.

A facelift can considerably reduce these signs of aging by removing excess fat, tightening the underlying muscles, and redraping the skin around the neck and face. Facelifts can be done alone, or frequently performed in conjunction with another procedure such as a browlift, eyelid surgery, or nose reshaping. If your problem areas are limited to the neck, a more conservative procedure, known as a "platysmaplasty" will be recommended. In some cases, a facelift can reduce the outward signs of aging by ten or fifteen years.

Ever catch yourself in a department store mirror and instantly suck in your stomach? It really improves your look, doesn't it? LipoSelection only by Vaser can give you that look all of the time, without having to "suck it in" and now it's available right here in our private surgery center.

LipoSelection only by Vaser is one more way you can take care of yourself and be your personal best. The LipoSelection procedure is tissue selective ultrasound energy to break up the fat while leaving other important tissues largely undisturbed. You can smooth down your shape to eliminate accumulated fat pockets just about any place where a little extra body cushioning is keeping you from looking and feeling your greatest. If your true slimmer self is yearning to break free, you owe it to yourself to check this out.

BOTOX® is used for the temporary improvement of the appearance of moderate to severe horizontal lines in the forehead, frown lines, crows feet and neck bands in men and women. It relaxes targeted muscles by blocking nerve impulses that trigger wrinkle-causing muscle contractions.

Imagine reducing lines between your nose and mouth. Restoring fullness to your lips. Even greatly diminishing blemishes, including acne scars. Now you can restore a more youthful glow and enhance your natural features with Sculptra soft-tissue filler.

Be one of the first to try the next generation Dermal filler. Juvederm is a long-lasting gel that, once injected into the skin, lifts and adds volume to the areas being treated. Similar to one of the body's own natural substances (hyaluronic acid), it is a completely safe treatment.

The hyaluronic acid in Juvederm simply supplements the body's age-depleted hyaluronic acid to plump-up the lip or to raise the skin and 'fill in' the particular wrinkle being treated. Dr. Popham is one of a select few doctors given access to Juvederm before commercial arrival in January 2007.

Dr. Popham also specializes in reconstructive surgery of the face, with particular emphasis on restoring or preserving the function and beauty of the eyes. He manages and repairs problems primarily related to the tissues or structures surrounding the eye, rather than the eyeball itself. These structures include the eyelids, the orbit (bony socket surrounding the eye), the muscles that move the eyes, the soft tissues that surround the eyes, and the tear system that helps keep the eyes moist. These structures can be affected by injuries, infections, inflammations, tumors, congenital anomalies and problems related to aging.

For more information on Reconstructive Surgery please visit our Park Avenue OculoPlastic Surgeons web site at: www.parkavenueoculoplasticsurgeons.com