Dr. Rodriguez explains the Lockwood dissection technique he uses during abdominoplasty procedures and why he prefers it over traditional tummy tuck dissection methods.
Plastic surgery videos
Videos by Dr. Ricardo L. Rodriguez about plastic surgery, our practice and topics related to them.
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Lockwood Technique Tummy Tuck
The Lockwood technique minimizes tissue trauma and preserves crucial blood supply. Dr. Rodriguez explains and illustrates why this tummy tuck method not only accelerates healing, but also reduces the risk of complications like wound separation and seromas as well as optimized liposuction outcomes.
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Lip Surface Anatomy with Dr. Rodriguez
Empowering Patients to Navigate Lip Lifts with Confidence!
Explore upper lip lift anatomy to better understand how to communicate with your plastic surgeon the things you might want to change, or that you’re not satisfied with, during your consultation.
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Lip Lift pre-op markings to 2-weeks post-op
This African American lip lift patient requested the remaining distance between the bottom of the nose and the top of the upper lip to be 8mm, shorter than the average 12 to 15 mm, but it totally works for her. See her progression from surgery day pre-op markings through her 1-week and 2-week post-op visits.
If you’re considering a lip lift, be sure to check out our procedure information, before and after photos, as well as reviews from patients and articles I’ve written on the subject.
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Browlift & Liplift Patient Follow Up
This patient came to me concerned about her heavy eyelids infringing on her eyelashes. While she was thinking an eyelid lift, she ended up choosing an endoscopic browlift, which sometimes is a better option to rejuvenate and refresh the eye area. Learn more about there here. She’s also had a lip lift to address her upper lip getting “thinner” with age. The results are a very marked change in her appearance and she’s happy with the results!
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Fat Transfer Breast Augmentation Follow Up
Fat grafting is a great technique for a natural breast augmentation (using your own fat tissue as opposed to using silicone or saline breast implants). This patient (approximately 5’7″ and 130lbs) is very happy with her results.
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Facial Fat Transfer & Lip Lift: Surgical Plans and Results
This patient had fat grafting to the upper and lower face, liposuction of her jowls, and a lip lift for a younger, fresher look. Now she just looks great with #nofacelift and without looking *done*. The recovery for this fantastic procedure is much shorter than the traditional facelift.
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Correction of a Double Bubble Deformity
This patient is one year post correction of a double bubble breast contour deformity. I’m going to show you what it used to look like on a picture and what she looks like now, a year later.
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Dr. Rodriguez’s Covid Vaccination
NEWS! Dr. Rodriguez has received his first round of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine (also known as BNT162b2). He will be getting his second shot 21 days from this injection. Our surgery center OR nurse also received her Covid vaccine and, in addition, our board certified anesthesiologists and all nurses will be vaccinated within the next […]
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We’re Open (COVID Update)
Governor Hogan announced the resumption of elective surgery effective May 7, 2020 – with detailed precautions and a self certification requirement from the Maryland State Department of Health. We are grateful that our entire team has stayed healthy during the quarantine period and we would like to thank all of the front-line workers for their diligence and our entire staff for coming back to work.
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Periareolar Incision Mastopexy Day 2 Post-Op
This patient had a breast lift with a scar just around the areola as opposed to a lollipop scar or an anchor scar.
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Weightlifter Gynecomastia
I corrected this patient’s gynecomastia and he went on to become a Masters National Body Building Champion recognized by the IFBB.
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BBL – 6 Week Follow Up
See what this patient looks like at her 6-week follow up appointment. She had a BBL with fat injections (a fat graft) to the outer thighs.
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Saline Breast Implants – 20 Year Follow Up
This patient had breast augmentation using saline implants 20 years ago and her results still look spectacular. See for yourself and hear Dr. Rodriguez discuss the specifics of her procedure and her long-lasting results.
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Bilateral Breast Augmentation – 9 Year Follow Up
This patient, now in her early 30’s, had a beast augmentation using 500cc implants when she was in her early 20’s. See how her results are holding up 9 years and 1 pregnancy later.