Facial reconstruction surgery is a procedure to recreate part of your face. You may receive facial reconstruction surgery after a traumatic facial injury, due to structural irregularities from birth, ...

Smoking cigarettes before surgery can increase the risk of severe complications. Some complications carry a risk of death. In some extreme cases, doctors may refuse to operate on people who smoke.

Cytoreductive surgery removes tumors that have spread throughout your abdominal cavity. It’s often combined with another procedure called hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. You may need ...

You'll be asleep during the surgery. Once you're sleeping, the urologist makes an incision (cut) on your genital area and inserts the implant into your corpora cavernosa (two tubes of tissue that fill ...

Americans have become obsessed with plastic surgery and other means of image enhancement post-pandemic, research shows. Overall demand for cosmetic procedures increased by 5 percent in 2023 over the ...

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) surgery is a procedure to place a durable mechanical heart pump into a poorly functioning heart. LVADs help your heart’s lower left chamber (ventricle) pump blood ...

"Nanofat, nanofat, nanofat" — this was silently running through my head as I watched an Instagram Reel by double-board-certified plastic surgeon Ben Talei, MD. He was explaining a patient's facial ...