Niamtu Cosmetic Facial Surgery

Young people have positive fat distribution in the face that contributes to a “young” look. As we age, this fat atrophies and sags and produces a hollow and aged appearance. Aging is a process of deflation and as the youthful midface fat changes position, we look drawn and aged. Young people have plentiful midface volume […]

In the fast moving arena of cosmetic surgery, hype is omnipresent and the media is full of “new” and miraculous procedures that promise fantastic results with little or no downtime. Most of these “discoveries” fade into obscurity because of results that fail to meet expectations. Barbed suture facelifts, skin tightening devices, and minimally invasive laser treatments that produce minimal results are examples of hyped procedures that entered like a lion and […]

Chin implant surgery is a simple surgical procedure with dramatic results that takes less than an hour and is adjustable and reversible.  For patients with a deficient chin, profile or jawline, chin implant surgery can improve aesthetics and boost confidence.  Not everyone with a recessive chin is a candidate for chin implants and depending on […]

Last year I had the pleasure to meet and spend some time with Garth Brooks while he was in Richmond to film some promotional commercials for the Commonwealth. This guy meets about a million people a year, but that evening he acted like my wife and April and I were friends he knew all his […]

Dr. Niamtu had the honor of publishing a textbook chapter in Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America on Lip Reduction.  Dr. Niamtu J. Lip reduction surgery (reduction cheiloplasty). Facial Plast Surg Clin North Am. 2010 Feb;18(1):79-97.

Click the video below to see a very short video of Dr. Niamtu performing a lip lift. (caution: contains actual surgical footage)

The lip lift procedure is a simple means of shortening the upper lip to provide more pout and enhance aesthetics. The procedure also allows the patient to show more teeth when talking and smiling. Although many patients heal fine without the laser, those patients who desire a more aesthetic scar can be treated with the […]

In the video below Dr. Niamtu explains the process he uses to determine the amount of tissue that needs to be removed to achieve the patients’ desired lip size.

The lips are extremely vascular and bleed very easy during surgery.  The more bleeding there is, the harder it is to do the surgery and bleeding also causes increased pain, swelling and recovery.  Using the CO2 laser for lip reduction enables Dr. Niamtu to perform this procedure virtually blood free.  The video below shows Dr. […]

Although most lip reductions are performed on non-Caucasian patients, there are patients of every race that desire to have smaller lips.  The video below shows a bloodless laser lip reduction on a Caucasian patient.  Note that there is no blood loss during the procedure.