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Best Injectables to Refresh Your Face in the New Year

If one of your new year’s resolutions is to look absolutely stunning, then it might be a great idea to consider using injectables to refresh and rejuvenate your look. Changing your wardrobe and working out at the gym can be invigorating, but with fillers, you can actually rewind the clock […]

The Do’s and Don’ts After Dermal Filler Treatments

After your dermal filler treatments, you’ll be able to go back to work or your usual activities right away. Expect minor swelling, bruising, and tenderness at the injection sites, but these side effects don’t last long and usually disappear within a few days. While there is not much of a recovery period, it’s […]

What Makes A Good Abdominoplasty?

Dramatic improvements in the appearance of your abdomen can be achieved with abdominoplasty surgery, a procedure that is commonly known as a “tummy tuck.” The procedure helps to reshape your abdomen by removing excess skin and fat and tighten your abdominal muscles by closing any openings between them. The result […]

How Long Does A Chin Augmentation Last?

Patients whose jaw size, shape, or projection don’t meet their own ideals often consider undergoing chin augmentation. The procedure is far more common than it at first appears to be, though it doesn’t rank in popularity quite like most other male and female cosmetic procedures do. In terms of its […]

While statistically speaking, plastic surgery procedures are still done by more women than men, the number of men having cosmetic work done is rapidly increasing. As of 2019, 8% of plastic surgeries in the United States were done on men, for a total of 1.3 million procedures: 211,000 of them […]

How long can Aesthetic Facial Balancing (AFB) procedures really last and why are these filler procedures usually better aesthetically and financially than Botox and Dysport neuromodulators?

I want to start this blog by saying that I don’t think neuromodulators like Botox and Dysport are bad at all. On the contrary, they are wonderful drugs that can have a place in aesthetic interventions! I have been called Dr. No-tox many times in the past and this is […]

Here at the Maercks Institute, we are all about unlocking inner beauty. Today we wanted to share some of our favorite beauties, inside and out, who trusted The Maercks Institute to give them the upgrade they’ve always wanted. These girls are some of Miami’s favorite influencers who spend their careers […]

They’re coming for your vagina! Like it or not, it’s the latest profiteering trend in healthcare, your vagina. Today I received this email from Sciton one of the best manufacturers of laser technology and the manufacturer that we use at The Maercks Institute: “The vaginal health market is a growing and […]

Why Do Augmented Breasts Look So “Augmented” or Fake? In this weeks edition of “Why Does Everyone Look So Weird?” I will examine the obstacles to attaining what so many women want in a breast augmentation: A scarless full youthful look that doesn’t have “plastic surgery” written all over it. […]

Why Does Everyone Look So Weird? How the current FDA warnings will further encourage the creation of strange, dehumanized, and puffy faces. On May 28th the FDA issued an important warning regarding soft tissue fillers of all kinds and devastating adverse effects that have been reported. These adverse outcomes all […]