Aging on your brows is not only unattractive, but it can give people you interact with an entirely wrong impression, making them think you’re perpetually tired, sad, even angry. In extreme cases, sagging brows can begin to impact your vision. A brow lift with Dr. Barrera takes off the years and stops the misinformation! A […]
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Kids are pretty self-focused and in their own little world on the playground and in elementary school. They don’t notice much about how other kids look, unless there is something that truly sticks out. In the case of the ears, this can be a literal meaning. Children instantly fixate on ears that protrude too far,
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Professional athletes have been putting the power of their blood platelets to work helping them recover after injury or surgery for years. What if you put the same platelets to work restoring thinning hair or rejuvenating dull, lifeless facial skin? You can do that at Dr. Barrera’s with platelet-rich plasma. What is platelet-rich plasma? We
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For his surgical procedures, Dr. Barrera uses a combination of IV sedation and local anesthesia. Patients often have misconceptions about this, so let’s get into this a bit for this cool January blog of the new year. Why IV sedation? Whereas many surgeons opt to have patients under general anesthesia during their surgeries, Dr. Barrera
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Living in sunny Houston, we’ve all had our share of sun exposure. And now we have the sun spots to show for it! Otherwise, your skin may have some acne scarring, hyperpigmentation, even rosacea, and you wonder what you can do to improve it. At Dr. Barrera’s we would advise you to get “intense” with
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In December’s first blog, we addressed the reasons you’re seeing more and more hair in the shower drain every morning. From male pattern hair loss in men to alopecia areata in women, there are many different causes behind hair loss. And exactly none of them are welcome changes in your life. That’s why Dr. Barrera
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If you’re suffering from male or female pattern baldness, every morning can be scary when looking at the drain after your shower. We all shed around 100 hairs every day from our scalp. With normal hair growth these are replaced by a similar amount of new hair produced from follicles in the growth phase of
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This should be a welcome holiday season with that stubborn virus mostly in the rear-view mirror. And a holiday season isn’t a holiday season without lots of parties, hanging with friends, and general social merriment! So, as we move past the food coma of Thanksgiving and into prime party season in Houston, maybe you should
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At Dr. Barrera’s, first and foremost, we want our patients to be comfortable with the decisions they are making about their bodies and potential cosmetic surgery. Sometimes patients have mixed feelings about silicone breast implants because they can rupture without the woman knowing, a phenomenon known as “silent rupture.” In most cases, they will only
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Rhinoplasty is often credited with being the original plastic surgery. It has been around since ancient Egyptian times, around 3,000 B.C. Back then a common punishment for criminals committing theft was rhinectomy. You guessed it — having their nose removed. As you would imagine, enterprising doctors saw a need for reconstructing noses in response to
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