About Our Before and After Pictures

Before and after pictures have long been the standard to show changes from cosmetic surgery. Unfortunately, many surgeons take very few steps to standardize their photography. Dr. Niamtu personally devotes extreme time and effort to standardize the before and after images on this site. We have invested painstaking efforts to keep the poses, lighting and sizes similar on all photographs. We are extremely grateful for the hundreds of patients on this site who have allowed us to use their images to educate other patients. Without them, it would be much more difficult to illustrate post operative changes. You may notice that some patients may have makeup on in their "after" pictures and not in their before pictures. This is not done in any means to be deceptive and is a very common situation for all surgeons. Although all of the pictured patients have given us permission to use their pictures, many of them do not desire to have post operative images showing them without makeup. We duly respect the wishes of our patients and again thank them for participating in our web site.

You may notice that some patients have "shiny" skin in their post operative images. This is especially common for the skin resurfacing pictures. The reason for this is that part of our goal for all cosmetic patients is medically based, life time skin care. Some of the patients shown are in the midst of skin rejuvenation programs and may be wearing moisturizers or other skin care products that appear "shiny" on some pictures.

Finally, we have attempted to categorize the results in the most simple way. Some patients have had single procedures while others have had multiple procedures. In other words, a patient shown on the facelift page may have also had eyelid surgery and vice versa.