Suite 300 is located on the third floor of a structure inside CityPlace, a subdued, upscale complex off New Ballas Court in St. Louis, Missouri. The address is not self-announced. There isn’t a large billboard along the highway or a grand entrance. Simply put, it’s a tidy, professional setting where people come to discuss changing their appearance, sometimes with anxiety and other times after years of deliberation. As it happens, that understated quality appears to be part of the point. In the field of cosmetic medicine, where practices can feel interchangeable and marketing frequently outpaces results, Parkcrest Plastic Surgery has…
Author: Michael Martinez
In Britain, April has a way of keeping you in suspense. When the sun comes out in the afternoon, you’re momentarily, foolishly optimistic. In the morning, there’s frost on the windscreen and a gray sky pressing down over the rooftops. That’s kind of how this week has been; it’s been cold along the eastern coasts, surprisingly warm in sheltered western locations, and the kind of weather that makes it really hard to know what to wear. However, something is changing, and it’s difficult to ignore the forecast data. As April turns into May, a heat wave appears to be approaching…
Miami’s relationship with beauty has always been complex. The conversations by the poolside about who did what and where, the morning joggers on South Beach, and the unwritten knowledge that being attractive here is more of a local language than a vanity are all examples of how the city runs on it. In light of this, a cosmetic surgery practice requires more than just skilled surgeons to gain recognition. It requires a viewpoint. It appears that Vixen Plastic Surgery, located in Suite 822 on NW 7th Street, has figured that out. Just the name suggests intentionality. Vixen. Unlike many plastic…
It takes time to develop a certain kind of trust. Just years of showing up, doing meticulous work, and letting patients tell the story for you—not marketing, not a brightly lit Instagram grid, not even a lengthy list of credentials. For over fifty years, Forsyth Plastic Surgery on Maplewood Avenue in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been doing just that. And somehow, despite operating in a mid-sized Southern city rather than a coastal media market, it has managed to build a reputation that most newer practices would spend years chasing. One aspect of the picture is the numbers. Maintaining a 4.8…
You wouldn’t expect to find a surgeon who trained under some of the most renowned Park Avenue cosmetic doctors in Woodlands, Texas. It’s a planned community north of Houston; it’s quiet, well-kept, and the kind of suburb where people care about their appearance but don’t want to show it. Despite this, SGK Aesthetics & Plastic Surgery has spent the last few years developing a reputation that is beginning to spread far beyond the zip code. It wasn’t by accident that Dr. Sugene Kim came here. After earning her medical degree from NYU, completing her residency at Georgetown, and graduating from…
Every new Housewives franchise starts with a scene where viewers stop, tilt their heads, and begin to ask questions. It’s not about the drama. Not because of the slogans. Regarding the faces. With New Jersey, it took place. Salt Lake City experienced this. And now, just one week into The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, it’s happening again, and this time, Liz McGraw has become the focus of the conversation almost immediately. Liz didn’t wait long to give people something genuine to work with, which sets this particular scenario apart from the typical Bravo conjecture. She metaphorically approached a microphone…
All the elements of a viral hit are present in the story. According to the post, a 40-year-old Camden, New Jersey man named James Mack gets so fixated on his ex-girlfriend that he has 37 different plastic surgeries after she files for a restraining order against him. A new nose, a new face, restructured bones, and bleached hair. He legally adopts the name Jason Monroe. Then he approaches her once more, seemingly unrecognizable even to himself. It reads like a suspenseful crime novel. Unsettling, particular, almost cinematic. And entirely fabricated. The article initially surfaced on the World News Daily Report…
People without tinnitus frequently fail to recognize the unique cruelty of the condition. It’s not as loud as an automobile alarm. It’s more subtle than that; a high-pitched ringing, occasionally a hiss, or a low throb that persists long after you go to sleep. It affects between 10% and 14% of people worldwide. It makes clinical sense that many of them also suffer from anxiety or depression, since the constant barrage of phantom noise would exhaust nearly everyone. Millions of those patients eventually take antidepressants, of course—SSRIs in particular. According to a recent study that was published in the Proceedings…