Author Archives: Dr. David Stoker

A woman looks happy with her skin while doing her skin care routine.

Post-Summer Skin Care Tips

Living in Southern California can take a toll on your skin, especially in the summer and fall when people spend a lot of time outside. Even though preventing damage is the best skincare strategy, that's not always possible. But it's never too late to repair skin damaged by sun exposure with treatments such as chemical …

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Dr. David Stoker

How ‘Rapid’ Is Rapid Recovery Breast Augmentation?

Consultations with breast augmentation patients at my Los Angeles practice always include a discussion about the recovery process. One of the questions I often hear—and that is asked frequently on sites such as RealSelf—is whether the "Rapid Recovery" technique really speeds up the pace of healing. I understand why potential patients may be skeptical. The …

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A woman relaxes at home and looks happy with her facelift results.

Facelift: Social Downtime vs. Physical Downtime

Getting a facelift so you look your best for an upcoming high-profile social event involves more planning than you would think. Many patients consider only the physical downtime involved with having facial plastic surgery. I advise my facelift patients in Los Angeles to also think about "social downtime"—the time needed to ensure that their results …

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A woman appears happy with her fat transfer results.

The Beauty of Fat Transfer

What could be better, cosmetically, than taking fat from an area of the body where it's unwanted and using it to augment another area to improve your appearance? When Kim Kardashian "broke the internet" a few years ago with a magazine cover shot of her well-endowed derrière, people started talking about the Brazilian butt lift. …

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How To Get a Better Jawline: 6 Options (Updated 2024)

Angular, contoured jawlines are considered universally attractive—for both women and men. As a board-certified plastic surgeon, I offer both surgical and nonsurgical options—such as neck liposuction or injectables—at my Los Angeles-area practice to create the jawlines patients desire. In this post, I'll explain how to get a better jawline, describe who is a good candidate …

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A man measures his waistline after receiving a body lift.

What You Should Know Before a Body Lift

Getting plastic surgery to remove excess skin after massive weight loss is a physically and emotionally significant step that often includes more than one operation. As a specialist in plastic surgery after weight loss in Los Angeles, I understand the multiple issues that body lift patients encounter both before and after surgery. I believe that …

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A woman looks happy with her facelift results.

The Fall and Rise of the Facelift

Even as nonsurgical skin tightening treatments, the latest fillers, and BOTOX® Cosmetic continue to dominate headlines in the beauty world, there has been a resurgence of facial plastic surgery procedures, especially facelift. My Los Angeles patients choose facelift for the natural, yet remarkable results that newer surgical techniques achieve. In the 1980s and 1990s, women and …

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