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Enough said.  Be well. Dr Michael Persky is located in Encino, California but services all of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Including, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Malibu, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Tarzana, Thousand Oaks, Agoura Hills and more

In the rapidly evolving field of plastic aesthetic surgery, it is most difficult to keep up with new technologies, surgical techniques, patient management, and treatments.  I spend time away from my family and practice to attend at least 3 to 4 carefully selected quality national and international facial plastic surgical conferences per year.  It is important to […]

“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”    Groucho Marx While minding my own business this morning in a stationary bicycling  (spinning) class, the woman in front of me removed her sweatshirt revealing a beautifully done tatoo on her mid, lower back.  The tattoo was an artful rendition of a religious icon, […]

Around my office this week, the talk among my patients has been about Suzanne Somers face, and that talk has been “What did Suzanne Somers do?”  From the looks of it, it appears that she has had a great deal of volume placed into her face (perhaps it is still very swollen).  The most likely procedure […]

Most physicians decided to go into medicine to be able to save lives and t0 make their patients lives better. In March of 2010, AT&T launched to educate consumers about the dangers of testing while driving.   The brave individuals in the video, “Your Last Text”” documentary, shared their stories because of how deeply they felt about texting […]

A few years ago I listed Audrey Hepburn’s list of beauty tips.  It was actually one of her favorite essays to quote in public, and whenever she did, she always carefully gave credit to it’s author, humorist Sam Levenson.  Sam Levenson also said that “Insanity is hereditary–you can get it from your children!” Here is Ms. […]

After much due diligence (I spent over one year of research and investigation as well as personal communications with the experts in the field, traveling around the country getting personal reports from patients), I began offering my patients Coolsculpting by Zeltiq in November 2010.  My criteria for incorporating  any new treatment or technology into my […]

An online article from “The Chart” on CNN Health begins: “Face transplant: $349,959 A year’s supply of immune-suppressing drugs: $14,000 – $20,000 Being able to breathe, to eat and to feel better about appearing in public: priceless” After celebrating the initial success of the first face transplant in the United States, the doctors who performed the […]

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me” means that people cannot hurt you with bad things they say or write about you.   The childhood idiom that we have used as comfort against cruel words seems to have met it’s match on today’s Internet.  At the recent Rejuvenation of the Face […]

The current issue of ENT Journal reports only the second known case of a nostril being glued shut by “Super Glue”.   A nine year old boy suffered the deliberate application of cyanoacrylate during a fight.  When he rubbed his nose, his nostrils stuck together.  The full article by James Sira, MBChB, Sandeep Uppal, FRCS (ORL-HNS), and […]

Just back from the latest in facial plastic surgery after five great days of lecture, dissection labs, demonstrations, shared knowledge between world experts, hands on with the latest tools, wonderful accommodations at the fabulous 100 year old U. S. Grant Hotel (Ulysses S. slept here!), good food, and even a little touch of social life.  I look […]

Many plastic surgical procedures (as well as non-plastic surgery treatments) require one to two weeks of recovery. Often times, as with aggressive fractional laser skin rejuvenation procedures, patients are asked to remain at home for up to one week.   Face lift recovery may take 10 to 14 days, while rhinoplasty up to one week. Recovery […]