Plastic Surgery Medical Spa Raleigh North Carolina

Best Spa Gift Raleigh NC

Blue Water Spa www.bluewaterspa.com offers a Complimentary Luxury Robe or custom Delux Gym Bag with spa gift of $200 or more

Spa gift certificates are becoming more and more popular and are right at the top of everyone's holiday wish list. Spas offer stress-relief, pampering, and results. Spa gift certificates are a wonderful way to show someone special how much you care.

Visiting a day spas web site for a spa can give you an idea of the spa's environment, their experience, and philosophy. The spa experience begins when a guest enters the door. By taking a virtual tour, you can get an idea of what the experience will be.

Important Questions to Ask Before Purchasing a Spa Gift Certificate:

1) Can Gift Certificates be sent immediately via email?

For those of us who wait until the last minute, gift certificates that can be purchased over the phone can be a big help. In most cases, gift certificates can even be emailed to ensure "on-time" delivery. Blue Water Spa in Raleigh, NC offers instant printable gift certificates.

2) Do the aestheticians (facialists) ever leave the room during a treatment?

The therapist should be in the room at all times delivering pampering, relaxation, and results. A client who is left alone can feel forgotten and uneasy and certainly they are not getting the best  treatment possible.

3) Do Therapists (facialists, massage therapists, etc). have sales quotas?

I know it's crazy, but it's true. Some spas actually have service providers on quotas. A Relaxing experience can quickly turn tense if a therapist on sales quotas begins to suggest additional treatments and products that won't benefit the client. Add on treatments should be suggested only if they will truly benefit a client. Likewise, home care products can enhance the result of a treatment, but if the conclusion of a treatment includes stress to purchase products, much of the relaxation benefits are eliminated.

For information about day spa gift certificates in Raleigh, North Carolina, visit  www.bluewaterspa or call 919 870-6066

Blue Water Spa will be accepting, new, unwrapped toys and new unwrapped children’s pajamas to donate to charity. For each toy or each pair of unwrapped pajamas, you will receive 1 raffle ticket good for one of many door prizes including a year of beauty which includes 1 facial treatment each month for a year, 1 massage every month for a year and laser skin tightening 6 times in a one year period. Other door prizes will include spa packages, spa products and laser hair removal treatments.

Blue Water Spa is accepting toys and pajamas daily from November 26, 2008 through December 10 2008. The winning ticket will be drawn and the winner will be announced at Blue Water Spa’s 6 anniversary party Wednesday December 10 2008. Winner does not need to be present to win and all lucky winners will be notified immediately.

The majority of the toys and pajamas will go to the Raleigh Rescue Mission, but if the number of toys and or pajamas exceeds the need the Mission has for this Christmas, Blue Water Spa will distribute toys and pajamas to other Triangle Organizations that will distribute the items to children in the area this Christmas.

For more information about the raffle or Blue Water Spa’s 6 year anniversary party, please call www.bluewaterspa.com or call 919 870-6066.

Blue Water Spa has been best medical spa in America 2006 and 2007 by American Spa magazine. The spa is owned and operated by board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Law and his wife Kile. Blue Water Spa has been named best spa in the Triangle area and a Five-Star Beauty Destination by New Beauty Magazine. Blue Water Spa has been recognized as The Best Place to Work in the Triangle 2006 by The Triangle Business Journal. Blue Water Spa often has promotions, like food drives to help the local community and offer savings to clients. The Blue Water Spa Community Appreciation Page recognizes Community heroes like teachers, nurses, firefighters and volunteers with special pricing on spa services throughout the year. Blue Water Spa will soon be celebrating it's 6th anniversary with an event to benefit local charities. For more information visit www.bluewaterspa.com

Q: My doctor’s office is medi-care certified and he said he could perform my liposuction there, instead of in a hospital. Is this safe?

A: Liposuction, as you may have heard in the popular media, is the most commonly performed surgical procedure each year in the United States. Here's a statistic that you may not have heard: the majority of physicians performing liposuction in the United States are not plastic surgeons; in fact, many do not have any formal surgical training whatsoever. It seems hard to believe, but many physicians performing liposuction have had no more training in liposuction than a 'weekend course'. One way to determine whether or not a physician has had appropriate training in a particular surgery is to confirm that they have hospital privileges for that procedure.

I fear that some practitioners view liposuction as a 'simple' surgery, since it does not involve making large incisions, and it requires little, if any, suturing. Nothing could be further from the truth. Liposuction, in my mind, is a very challenging operation that requires careful planning and preparation, and a great deal of care and finesse when it is actually performed. It requires a three-dimensional understanding of the layers of human anatomy, an understanding that is second nature to a surgeon alone. I think that it is often an inadequate understanding of anatomy (and, perhaps, of the body's response to surgery) which leads to the poor results in liposuction and body contouring that unfortunately are so often seen.

It is important that your physician has hospital priveleges for the procedure you are interested in having performed.  A hospital has access to information and records that the general public does not. Hospitals also have tremendous exposure to liability for cosmetic surgery procedures performed within them. They therefore will only grant surgical privileges to physicians that can demonstrate appropriate training and experience.

Although many aesthetic cosmetic surgery procedures are not performed in hospital operating rooms, the fact that a hospital has granted a surgeon privileges for a given procedure ensures that the surgeon has met an accepted standard of competence. It also means that your surgeon will be able to take care of you at a hospital should any complications from cosmetic surgery arise.

If you are planning to have cosmetic surgery performed, you should do your due diligence to determine if your surgeon has the appropriate credentials. This issue can be settled by the following simple question: Does my surgeon have hospital privileges to perform my cosmetic surgery?

Michael Law MD

Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon

Raleigh, North Carolina

The nature of the tummy tuck surgery that will best suit each patient is determined during the consultation and is based on the physical examination. For all patients, I draw the proposed incisions on their body with a skin marker (it washes off easily) so that it is clear what the nature of the resulting surgical scars will be. I also outline liposuction areas if that is part of the surgical plan.
In some people, the abdominal skin will contract after delivery and maintain a great deal of its natural tone. Abdominal bulging may be confined to the area below the belly button. In these patients, a mini-tummy tuck may be adequate, which involves a shorter suprapubic incision, no surgical alteration of the belly button, and a quicker recovery time.

In a mini-abdominoplasty, the rectus abdominis muscles may be tightened below the belly button only, if the abdominal "bulge" is confined to that area. If abdominal wall laxity extends above the belly button, it is possible to tighten the muscles all the way up to the level of the sternum (ribcage). To do this, the umbilical stalk is divided at its base, and then reinserted at its original location once the muscle-tightening sutures have been placed. The patient still keeps their 'original' belly button.

A mini-tummy tuck generally does not alter the blood supply of the abdominal skin as much as a full tummy tuck, and therefore more aggressive liposuction of the waist and back may be performed in many cases.

Michael Law MD

Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon

Raleigh, North Carolina

The facelift procedure involves incisions that skirt the contour of the ears, using the anatomy of the ear to help conceal them. For a full facelift, the incision starts in the sideburn area, follows the contours of the junction of the ear with the face, curves behind the earlobe into the recess between the posterior ear and the neck/scalp, and then extends into the hairline posteriorly at the top of the ear. When I make these incisions, I design them so that, once fully healed, they may be difficult for even a hairdresser to detect. That goal can often be achieved, and it requires meticulous attention to every centimeter of the closure.

Each year, aesthetic plastic surgery and non-surgical medical spa procedures become more popular among men. It is quite clear that in the United States, and around the world, the percentage of aesthetic surgery patients which are male is rising. As Americans live longer and healthier lives, more and more people have the expectation of appearing young and vital into their sixties and even their seventies. When performed artistically and conservatively, aesthetic surgery of the male face and body can have a dramatic rejuvenating effect. Non-surgical aesthetic technologies are also available to enhance the male face and body, without the 'downtime' required for surgical procedures.