

The Facelift’s PR Problem: Why plastic surgeons say the stigma is still very real
Despite the fact “people who have facelifts are almost universally happy,” the facelift patient’s greatest fear is they’re going to wind up looking unlike themselves and will then be judged for having surgery, says Dr. Levine.


Dr. Levine discusses the popularity of buccal fat removal procedures and what you need to know
The buccal fat pad is located in the middle of the cheek and serves as a gliding pad between the facial muscles. It is present at birth and contributes to that “baby face” appearance. For many people, its volume persists later in life and adds undesirable fullness to the cheek area.

Dr. Levine discusses how your life experience is worn on your face and how the reflection we see in the mirror is not always just age, but our life experiences.
In this article, the author Emily Listfield discusses how grief and a difficult year created a look on her face that needed refreshing. She spoke with Dr. Levine and was comforted by the procedures she was seeking. “Levine made sure I understood the procedure itself, the risks that all surgery entails, as well as the healing time.”

We all know how a small computer camera used during a zoom call can make us well, not look our best.
In this issue of allure, Dr. Levine discusses how a traumatizing year has contributed to that look and why the neck has been the focus for so many to fix. He says, many of us seemed to “age more than the chronological amount of time that passed in 2020.”

Dr. Levine discusses thread lifts and why there are better options to get the look you want
In this article, Dr. Steven Levine discusses how thread lifts aren’t really new. “Very little is new in my field. Only new marketing. This is clearly one of those examples of something that has been tried and has not been successful in the past, and then companies bring it back.” He continues, “I have never seen a long-term result from threading that I was impressed by.”

One surgeon famous for perfecting the aesthetic of natural-looking breasts is New York’s Steven M. Levine.
The modestly sized, natural-looking breast – is the one that Dr. Levine became familiar with working in the fashion industry in the 2010s. This has now become the gold standard. “I’ve done a few of the most well-known “fashion” breasts”, says Dr. Levine.

Sclerotherapy for Hands Is Now a Thing
If you’ve ever watched a web of spider veins vanish before your eyes, you’re perhaps already familiar with sclerotherapy. During the treatment, doctors inject an irritant solution into offending veins, which damages their linings, causing them to collapse and shrivel, or close up altogether.