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Many of my Houston blepharoplasty patients come in desiring a change in their hooded eyelid appearance with a tired look. Upper eyelid surgery can help with the crepe upper eyelid skin and upper eyelid hooding. However, the eyebrows must be examined to assure the patient does not have brow ptosis or low seated eyebrows.…

An important question for many of our Houston facelift patients is how long will they need time off after their facelift or necklift. This will depend on the type of surgery performed and your healing. Deep plane facelifts with platysmaplasty of the neck may require 2-3 weeks until you are feeling social or ready…

Many of our Houston rhinoplasty patients main concern with their nose will be the width. This could be a wide bridge due to wide nasal bones. Other patients may be concerned about a bulbous broad tip due to wide or redundant nasal tip cartilge. Lastly, other patients may be concerned about wide or flared nostrils.

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Some of my lower eyelid surgery Houston patients will present not only with the classic bags under the eyes, but also with festoons or malar bags. It is important to correctly diagnose these patients as the treatment for these patients is different than those simply with lower eyelid bags due to fat pseudoherniation.

Festoons are excess skin below the eyelid fat…

Many of my Houston rhinoplasty patients will ask if rhinoplasty is our number one procedure at Funk Facial Plastic Surgery. With experience comes expertise. Dr. Funk performs around 300 rhinoplasty procedures each year and it is the procedure he performs most often. This will include revision rhinoplasty, ethnic rhinoplasty…

Many of my Houston otoplasty patients are curious as to how we pin the ears back with otoplasty. There are two different approaches to this procedure. One is cartilage cutting while the other is cartilage sparing. With cartilage sparing otoplasty, stitches or sutures are used to bend and reshape the cartilage to treat protruding…

Many of my Houston facelift patients will ask if their facelift will need fat grafting in addition. This will depend on the amount of deflation your face may have due to fat loss. However, a deep plane facelift will frequently reposition fat pads to create a fuller and more youthful face without the need for fat grafting.

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Many of my Houston rhinoplasty patients will ask if their nose will need to be broken during surgery. This depends, but in the majority of rhinoplasty procedures, osteotomies or controlled fractures of the bone are performed. Patients who have a nasal hump that is taken down will have a wider nose with what is termed an…