All Entries in the "Surgical Treatments" Category
Understanding the Risks Involved When Having Surgery
Whether your prospective surgery is necessary or elective, there is always a risk attached. Before deciding if you are happy to undergo a surgical procedure, however, it is important that you are fully aware of the risks involved, so that you can make an informed decision. Here, we have highlighted some of the major risks [...]
What to do with Your old Glasses after Laser Eye Surgery
After laser eye surgery, many patients often wonder what to do with their old glasses. In most cases, laser surgery will have banished the need to use any glasses. Alternatively, individuals will also have no need to keep old glasses once their prescription changes. Patients have often spent a great deal of money on their [...]
The Pros and Cons of Teeth Whitening Surgery
Teeth whitening is one of the most popular procedures of cosmetic dentistry, and the truth is that there are very few reasons not to have such procedures because they are said to whiten your teeth without any hazards on your overall health. Nonetheless before you actually go and do something to your teeth, you should [...]
Correcting Nearsightedness with Radial Keratotomy
Radial Keratotomy is the most common procedure used for treating nearsightedness. The procedure includes making small cuts in your cornea that flatten it and decrease nearsightedness. But in people with nearsightedness and astigmatism, the surgeon makes extra cuts to flatten the distorted element of the cornea, which cause astigmatism. The result of surgery on one [...]
You Don’t Look A Day Older
Music to our ears, right? Words all of us would love to hear, but rarely do. With the increasing popularity of cosmetic surgery, more and more people hear those words, but for some people out there, surgery is not an option. So what do you do? Where can you turn? This is where the major [...]
Breast Reconstructive Surgery – Options
Battling breast cancer is traumatic on many levels – the pain and the physical toll that the disease and its treatment takes on you, as also the emotional scarring that can result, lumpectomy or mastectomy is required to be performed. Issues of self esteem and confidence may be inextricably linked to this, making it all [...]
Laser Vein Removal – Who Is A Candidate For The Procedure?
There are chiefly two types of problems that we are talking about here; spider veins and varicose veins. Laser vein removal refers to the latter condition. Spider veins have, as the name suggests, the appearance of a spider crawling or a web like structure of red or purplish patterns visible beneath the skin. Varicose veins [...]
Possible Complications From Gastric Bypass Surgery (Part 2)
As a result of gastric bypass surgery, some people may experience what is known as the Dumping Syndrome. Here sugary food quickly gets passed on to the bowel, and the person may feel the heart beating fast and forcefully, may break out in a cold sweat, and feel anxious and uneasy. This phenomenon is often [...]
Possible Complications From Gastric Bypass Surgery (Part 1)
Many people have sought relief from obesity by virtue of the Gastric Bypass Surgery, which is basically surgery that reduces the volume of the stomach and consequently a person’s capacity for intake. It also alters the body’s physiological and psychological response to food and is seen to result in fairly dramatic weight loss. This surgery [...]
Surgery As Treatment For Treacher Collins Syndrome
Treacher Collins syndrome is a rare genetic condition that results in facial deformities. Its severity may range from a very faint manifestation that could go unnoticed to more severe presentations that are immediately recognizable and may have related problems. Treacher Collins syndrome may either occur as a spontaneous mutation from normal parents or it may [...]
