DR. RICARDO L. RODRIGUEZ
Founder, Ricardo L. Rodriguez MD, Baltimore Plastic Surgeon
Medical Director, Cosmetic Surgery Facility, LLC
Board-Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Dr. Ricardo L. Rodriguez, a Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon with a state-of-the-art Surgical Center in Baltimore, shares his expertise in the science of beauty. Trained at Yale, where he also served as a Professor of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Rodriguez offers trusted guidance on Buttock, Body, Breast, and Face enhancements.
Besides a Facelift, there are several options for treating the signs of an aging face. As our dermis thins, facial skin loosens, and wrinkles develop, many patients seeking short-term results turn to Botox. For patients who are not interested in a Facelift, but want long-lasting results, the alternatives are Laser skin resurfacing or Fat grafting.
Dr. Todd Hobelmann is one of the board-certified anesthesiologists who works with us here at Cosmeticsurg in Baltimore. In this video, he talks about the anesthetic that they perform here for most of our surgical cases.
In this video, I talk more about Fat transfer, specifically, how long fat grafts last. If you frequent various plastic surgery blogs and portals, you might be aware there is a wide variation in the types of techniques that surgeons are using. Thus, there is a wide variation in their results and a wide variation in their opinions about whether fat injections are permanent.
In this video I talk about the reasons why I often find myself recommending fat grafts to the cheek, and to the face, when patients come to me wanting a rejuvenation of the face… wanting to, in general, look younger. Fat grafts, also known as Fat transfer or Fat injections, are a great way to rejuvenate the face.
The most natural way to rejuvenate and refresh the eye area is often to lift the brow so that the upper eyelids resume their natural, youthful position. When we age, the brow droops such that it crowds down on the upper eyelids. Often people feel like they have excess skin in the eyelids when, in fact, it’s the brow that’s causing the feeling.
Two things matter when it comes to breast implant wrinkling or implant ripples: the consistency of the soft tissue cover and the implant material itself. I know that the issue of implants and visible rippling or wrinkling comes up in implant forums and I often hear it mentioned during consults. In this video presentation, I show both saline and silicone implants so you can see how the wrinkling can appear directly on the implant itself as it’s held up. While silicone is more gel-like, it is not immune to wrinkling. I also discuss the gummy bear implant, which has a very stiff silicone consistency and is recommended for patients with breast reconstruction who have very little soft tissue cover in place.
Breast implants can be quite complicated when it comes to choosing the right fit. For my Breast augmentation patients, one of my roles as a plastic surgeon is to help you choose the best breast implant for your body and for what you want to accomplish. There are more choices to make than most patients originally think and making the right choices is essential to getting the desired result that you’re after.
Since the Brazilian butt lift results from a fat transfer, the question I get from most patients is whether they’ll lose the effect of the procedure if they lose weight after the surgery! The short answer is this: If the fat is processed and grafted correctly, you will not lose the effects.
In this video I explain the special techniques I use for the very popular Brazilian butt lift, showing some of the tools I use, detailing the complex series of steps involved in the surgery that I’ve perfected, and sharing a few of our patients’ before and after photos.
In this video, I talk about what it means to be “Board-certified” and how you can check to see if the plastic surgeon you’re considering for a procedure is truly board-certified or not, regardless of the number of diplomas hanging on the wall.
Dr. Ricardo L. Rodriguez was one of 6 board-certified plastic surgeons to serve on the ASPS Brazilian butt lift safety panel at The Meeting in Orlando, Florida in 2017. This video is a clip of one of the comments he made during the 45-minute presentation.
Hi, my name is Ricardo Rodriguez and I am the Medical Director at CosmeticSurg.net. Today I want to introduce you to our practice.
Giving you the maximum amount of information is very important to us, as we feel this will help you make the best possible choice.
We make it a special point to give you the best possible care that we can.
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 from this fantastic procedure is much shorter than the traditional facelift.
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.
This is a facial rejuvenation patient holding her pre-op photo, allowing us to see the results achieved with facial fat grafting alone – it was all done with fat grafting.
