Dr Andrew Hayduke

NON-LIPOSUCTION FAT REDUCTION APPROACHES Frequently and aggressively marketed as “non-invasive” or “non-surgical” approaches to fat reduction, these methods are most commonly performed by non plastic surgeons (such as gynecologists, family physicians, general practitioners, retired emergency room doctors, etc) who likely took a short instructional course sponsored by the manufacturer of the machine. Many times these physicians are trying to simply increase cash flow to their practice by adding some type of “fat reduction treatment” to their services even though cosmetic procedures are totally unrelated to the actual field (specialty) they were formally trained in. These non-liposuction fat reduction methods usually lure in patients with a relatively low up front cost (for the first treatment) and claims of “non-invasiveness” and “safety”. Frequently there are also claims of “no down time” which is very appealing to the consumer. What potential clients frequently fail to underst...

CHOOSING A SURGEON YOU CAN TRUST To find out if your potential surgeon holds any board certification in any specialty whatsoever, we suggest you visit www.certificationmatters.org and discover which SPECIFIC board certification (if any) your potential surgeon actually holds.   Breast implant surgery involves many choices. Finding a formally trained and credentialed breast implant surgeon is difficult. Since insurance does not cover cosmetic breast implant surgery, many types of surgeons from different specialties (general surgery, gynecology, otolaryngology, ear nose throat surgery, etc) will try to capture you as a breast implant patient. We feel that the first and most important recommendation is selecting a formally trained PLASTIC SURGEON who is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) Although it is hard to believe, in the state of California, your surgeon does not need to be a formally trained plastic surgeon or board certified by the ABPS in o...

Liposculpture Palm Desert Liposuction is a cosmetic procedure designed to physically remove unwanted fat from your body using a small blunt metal tube and suction. The main purpose of liposuction is to flatten (sculpt down) bulging fat in one or more areas of your body. Liposuction is extremely popular. In fact, liposuction has replaced breast augmentation as the most frequently performed cosmetic surgical procedure in the United States according to one American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery research study. It is important to understand, however, that liposuction is not a method of weight loss. Liposuction is ideally used on bulging “problem” areas that have not responded well to diet and exercise in patients of normal (or near normal) weight. Occasionally, however, even overweight patients may benefit from sculpting of certain problematic bulging fat regions. Both women and men have a tendency to store fat in certain predictable “fat depot” regions that are frequent...