What Is a Chemical Peel and How Does It Improve Your Skin?

By: The Practice Healthcare Team

Published on: June 15, 2026

Your skin renews itself roughly every 28 days, but that cycle slows with age, sun, and stress. A chemical peel helps restart the process.

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How to Prepare for Plastic Surgery: Simple Step-by-Step Guide

By: The Practice Healthcare Team

Published on: June 1, 2026

Excitement and nerves usually go hand in hand in the weeks before surgery. You've made the call and locked in your date, so the real question now is what to do between today and surgery day.

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What Is a Neck Lift and Who Is a Good Candidate?

By: The Practice Healthcare Team

Published on: May 14, 2026

A neck lift is the most effective way to restore a defined, youthful jawline and neckline. It targets the structural changes, such as loose skin, lax muscle, and submental fat that topical treatments and non-surgical options simply cannot address.

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How Often Should You Really Get Botox?

By: The Practice Healthcare Team

Published on: April 2, 2026

How often can you get Botox? It depends on more than just a calendar interval. Botox works by temporarily blocking nerve signals to targeted muscles.

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Skin Tightening Without Surgery: What Works and What Doesn’t

By: The Practice Healthcare Team

Published on: April 2, 2026

Loose skin develops when collagen and elastin break down faster than the body can replace them. Weight loss, pregnancy, aging, and hormonal decline all accelerate that process at different rates and in different tissue layers.

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How Common is Capsular Contracture?

By: The Practice Healthcare Team

Published on: March 17, 2026

Not every patient who gets breast implants develops capsular contracture. But enough do that it remains the most discussed complication in breast surgery, and the statistics vary widely depending on who’s reporting them. So, how common is capsular contracture? Rates vary by procedure type, implant surface, and surgical technique. Crucially,...

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How to Prevent Capsular Contracture: What You Need to Know

By: The Practice Healthcare Team

Published on: March 17, 2026

Capsular contracture is a well-documented complication following breast implant surgery, yet most patients aren’t informed about it until they’re already experiencing it. Understanding how to prevent capsular contracture starts before the first incision. Your body forms scar tissue around every implant. That’s normal. The problem begins when that tissue tightens,...

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Hormone Therapy: Risks and Benefits Explained

By: The Practice Healthcare Team

Published on: March 13, 2026

Poor sleep, unexpected mood changes, and hot flashes are not random. They are direct results of dropping estrogen and progesterone levels during perimenopause and menopause, and they warrant proper medical attention.

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What Is Perimenopause and How Do you Know You’re In It?

By: The Practice Healthcare Team

Published on: March 13, 2026

What is perimenopause? Perimenopause is the transitional phase before menopause when estrogen and progesterone levels begin to fluctuate, leading to a range of physical and emotional changes.

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Peptide Therapy in Plastic Surgery: Why Physicians Should Lead — Not Fear — the Conversation

By: Dr. Lisa Cassileth, MD FACS

Published on: February 27, 2026

As a plastic surgeon, I am constantly searching for ways to improve healing, optimize outcomes, and enhance recovery for my patients. In recent years, one area has drawn increasing attention: peptide therapy. Peptides are short chains of amino acids that occur naturally in the human body. They function as signaling...

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