Archive for 2012

Dr. Niamtu Featured on America Now

What a surprise today when a TV was on in our office and all of a sudden, Dr. Niamtu was talking on national TV!  America Now is a national TV syndicated show featuring Leeza Gibbons and Bill Rancic that covers popular culture.  The show and website featured a news story and video originally aired by […]

Neil Armstrong: an icon passing

I have had the opportunity to meet numerous celebrities along the way and have a collection of pictures in my game room.  I was often asked “out of this array of actors, sports figures, and politicians, who was your most memorable encounter and picture?”  The answer was always very simple “Neil Armstrong”. There are some […]

Lip Reduction Surgery; Estimating the Amount of Reduction

Dr. Joe Niamtu, III, cosmetic facial surgeon, Richmond, Virginia (www.lovethatface.com) has lectured and published on lip reduction surgery and frequently performs the procedure. One of the most common questions posed by prospective patients is “how much do you take off or how do you decide the amount of reduction?) The following video discusses one method […]

Fat Injection Gone Wrong

  Fat injection, also called fat transfer, is a popular procedure to fill lips and wrinkles or augment anatomy such as the cheeks.  Many practitioners and patients love fat and have no problem with it.  On the other hand, there are many cases of fat injection that happens to patients and does not work out.  […]

Dr. Niamtu Interviewed in Australian Cosmetic Surgery Magazine

                        Dr. Niamtu Interview in Australian Cosmetic Surgery Magazine      

Bullying and Cosmetic Surgery in Children

Cosmetic surgery is my life’s work and passion.  I love doing it, talking about it and writing about it.The way it usually works is that a patient see aging changes and decides to perform elective cosmetic surgery.  A pretty simple cause and effect scenario. There are times, however, when this template is different and one […]

DPN Facial Lesions (“skin tags”) in African-American Patients

DPN stands for Dermatosis Papulosa Nigra and is a common benign lesion in African-American patients. It is usually characterized by multiple, small, hyperpigmented, asymptomatic papules (skin tags) on the face of adults. Histologically, dermatosis papulosa nigra resembles keratosis. The condition may be cosmetically undesirable to some patients and removal is generally simple.  Effective methods include […]

Custom Facial Implants: a procedure whose time has arrived.

Although you hear a lot of people discussing custom facial implants, it is really not a new technique.  I believe I performed some of the first custom facial implants in the State of Virginia as evidenced by the balding young doctor in the 1990 article below. Dr. Niamtu in a 1990 article in the Richmond […]

Argentina: a surgical trip of a lifetime

My academic cosmetic surgery travels have taken me to six continents over the past 15 years and I have been lucky to share the beauty and friendship of many countries.  This summer I lectured in Turkey and had an awesome trip.  Last week, I returned from Buenos Aires Argentina with phenomenal experience and memories. I […]

Diamond Again

For the 5 year in a row, I am extremely proud to have been honored as the only Diamond Level Botox in the Central Virginia region.  This means that I am the largest solo Botox injector in the State of Virginia (of any specialty) and in the 1% of Botox injectors in the USA as […]