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How I Navigated Plastic Surgery Treatments During My GLP-1 Weight Loss

How I Navigated Plastic Surgery Treatments During My GLP-1 Weight Loss

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Chrissy Teigen Got Armpit Botox To Stop Sweating — Here’s How It Works

Chrissy Teigen Got Armpit Botox To Stop Sweating — Here’s How It Works

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A Plastic Surgeon Says This Is What to Know About Injectables and Fillers Before, During and After Treatment

A Plastic Surgeon Says This Is What to Know About Injectables and Fillers Before, During and After Treatment

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The Best Products to Get Rid of Scars, According to Doctors

The Best Products to Get Rid of Scars, According to Doctors

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Decoded: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Botox Versus Fillers

Decoded: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Botox Versus Fillers

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If You’ve Ever Considered Liposuction, You Should Read This

If You’ve Ever Considered Liposuction, You Should Read This

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Freakin Laser Beams – Learning for the “Laser Queen” at Dr. Russo’s Cosmetic Center

Freakin Laser Beams – Learning for the “Laser Queen” at Dr. Russo’s Cosmetic Center

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Don’t Let Dry Skin Get You Down: 4 Tips for Keeping It Soft in Winter

Don’t Let Dry Skin Get You Down: 4 Tips for Keeping It Soft in Winter

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With the 10-Year Challenge, Cosmetic Enhancements are Front and center

With the 10-Year Challenge, Cosmetic Enhancements are Front and center

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B+A: Body Sculpting Gallery

B+A: Body Sculpting Gallery

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The 7 Best Retinols to Try According to Skin Experts

The 7 Best Retinols to Try According to Skin Experts

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The Medspa Must-Have (Article by Dr. Joseph Russo)

The Medspa Must-Have (Article by Dr. Joseph Russo)

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Letting Inner Beauty Shine – A Makeover Video With Bellafill and Dr. Joseph Russo

Letting Inner Beauty Shine – A Makeover Video With Bellafill and Dr. Joseph Russo

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A Haute Mother’s Day At Dr. Joseph Russo’s Cosmetic Center With FaceTite

A Haute Mother’s Day At Dr. Joseph Russo’s Cosmetic Center With FaceTite

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10 Celebrity Buttocks Augmentation Rumors Confirmed

10 Celebrity Buttocks Augmentation Rumors Confirmed

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Aestheticians Share Their Top Tips for Getting Rid of Blackheads

Aestheticians Share Their Top Tips for Getting Rid of Blackheads

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Ask A Wedding Expert: Pre-Wedding Cosmetic Procedures

Ask A Wedding Expert: Pre-Wedding Cosmetic Procedures

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14 Beauty Trends That Are Downright Dangerous

14 Beauty Trends That Are Downright Dangerous

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Testing The Hydrafacial At The Dr. Joseph Russo Cosmetic Center

Testing The Hydrafacial At The Dr. Joseph Russo Cosmetic Center

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Drying Our Patience: Part II

Drying Our Patience: Part II

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Meghan Markle PLASTIC SURGERY Boom As Women Demand Cosmetic Ops

Meghan Markle PLASTIC SURGERY Boom As Women Demand Cosmetic Ops

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How To Resemble Meghan Markle? Plastic Surgeon Talks Non-Invasive ‘Markle Sparkle’ Treatment

How To Resemble Meghan Markle? Plastic Surgeon Talks Non-Invasive ‘Markle Sparkle’ Treatment

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Women Are Getting Plastic Surgery, Injectables and More to Get the ‘Meghan Markle Sparkle’

Women Are Getting Plastic Surgery, Injectables and More to Get the ‘Meghan Markle Sparkle’

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Fall For Great Skin: Autumn Skincare Tips

Springtime Acne-Prone Skin Tips

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Dr. Russo’s Top Doc

Dr. Russo’s Top Doc

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How to Change Up Your Skincare This Fall

How to Change Up Your Skincare This Fall

Article by Jenna Lemoncelli

“Fall is the best time to review and assess your skincare routines, and to make sure you are using the best products for your specific skin type,” says aesthetician Larisa Rabkin of Dr. Russo M.D. “I always suggest speaking to a professional and receiving a skincare consultation.”

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Did Bella Thorne Have Lip Injections? Experts Say Yes — Everything To Know

Did Bella Thorne Have Lip Injections? Experts Say Yes — Everything To Know

JULY 28, 2017

Article by Jenna Lemoncelli

Have you noticed something different about Bella Thorne? Some fans have pointed out that the actress appears to have had lip injections! And, multiple medical professionals have EXCLUSIVELY confirmed to HollywoodLife.com that Bella’s underwent lip procedures!

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Is This New Procedure the Alternative to a Face Lift?

Is This New Procedure the Alternative to a Face Lift?

JULY 10, 2017

Article by VICTORIA MOORHOUSE

Beauty innovation has reached new heights. You want your serum to virtually erase your expression lines? Not a prob.

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The Vampire Breast Lift Is “No Substitute to Surgery,” Experts Say

The Vampire Breast Lift Is “No Substitute to Surgery,” Experts Say

June 27, 2017

Article by Liz Ritter

The Vampire Breast Lift is billed as a non-surgical form of breast augmentation that doesn’t involve any downtime. We asked the experts to weigh in on this odd-sounding procedure — and they didn’t have many good things to say.

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What Is A Nipple Tuck & Should You Get One?

What Is A Nipple Tuck & Should You Get One?

July 6, 2017

Article by Dory Larrabee-Zayas

Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, and tons more celebs have been flaunting their nipples in sheer tops and now there is actually a procedure you can do for more prominent, perky nipples! Would you be interested in a ‘nipple tuck’?

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Rob Kardashian Alleges Blac Chyna Had Secret $100K Post-Baby Plastic Surgery— Watch

Rob Kardashian Alleges Blac Chyna Had Secret $100K Post-Baby Plastic Surgery— Watch

July 5, 2017

Article by Beth Shilliday

Rob Kardashian has alleged that Blac Chyna didn’t get her bangin’ post-baby body through just diet and exercise. Instead he claims to have paid for $100K of plastic surgery and has video he says proves it.

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7 Things Surgeons Say Patients Are Always Surprised to Learn About Liposuction

7 Things Surgeons Say Patients Are Always Surprised to Learn About Liposuction

May 22, 2017

Article by Liz Ritter

Liposuction is one of those procedures that has tried-and-true results. It is not a fleeting trend and everyone has heard of it, yet it doesn’t always seem to be so easily understood. So we asked the experts: What are most patients surprised to hear regarding the topic?

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Breaking Beauty & Rebuilding the Body

Breaking Beauty & Rebuilding the Body

April 27, 2017

Article by Jill Di Donato

“I’d literally gotten to the point where I’d rather be dead than to continue living life as a fat girl,” says Nicole Grays Owens. Co-founder of a multimillion-dollar payroll and staffing company, a media guru, host of two podcasts, and a fixture in Atlanta’s elite social scene, Owens hobnobs with celebrities as a wardrobe stylist and local personality. She’s also spent tens of thousands of dollars over eight years on plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures to become the woman she is today: “charismatic, sexy, and dope,” in her words.

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Maggots Are a Medical Device…and Other Scary Beauty-Related FDA Facts You Had No Idea About

Maggots Are a Medical Device…and Other Scary Beauty-Related FDA Facts You Had No Idea About

April 2017

Article Liz Ritter

This stomach-churning tidbit may sound shocking, but the FDA considers maggots a prescription-only medical treatment that helps with wound healing (there’s a whole lot of disinfection and sterilization involved, but that’s it in a nutshell).

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The I.V. Doc

The I.V. Doc

Article By RadioBDC

Picture this: you’re hungover. Or just getting over the flu. Or jet-lagged. Or just plain run down and exhausted. Now, picture this: a certified nurse comes to your home and helps you through it. That’s the concept behind The I.V. Doc–now available in Boston. Dr. Joseph A. Russo and his team joined me in studio with all the details.

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Read their lips! As a new study reveals what makes cosmetically enhanced pouts look fake, plastic surgeons and dermatologists give more telltale signs.

Read their lips! As a new study reveals what makes cosmetically enhanced pouts look fake, plastic surgeons and dermatologists give more telltale signs.

Article By Sarah Ferguson

Dr. Joseph Russo, a Newton, Massachusetts-based plastic surgeon, agrees with the findings and notes that it’s also important that the full lips are proportional to the rest of the face. ‘When all you see is a person’s lips because they are too large for her face, that typically makes them appear artificial,’ he told FEMAIL

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Why Doctors Are Still Prescribing This Controversial Diet

Why Doctors Are Still Prescribing This Controversial Diet

March 2017

Article By Liz Ritter

Newton Centre, MA, plastic surgeon Joseph Russo, MD, does all the main plastic surgery procedures, and a lot of skin-tightening and fat-melting, but when it comes to noninvasive weight-loss options, he says his favorite is the HCG Diet program.

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Why Doctors Are Turning to This Laser to Destroy Fat

Why Doctors Are Turning to This Laser to Destroy Fat

February 2017

Article By Liz Ritter

“Other than skin tightening, no other noninvasive treatment is more requested than fat removal. And who wouldn’t want to lose some unnecessary inches with a simple procedure?

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MICROBLADING AND REDHEAD EYEBROWS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

MICROBLADING AND REDHEAD EYEBROWS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

January 2017

Article By Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti

Eyebrows: One of the biggest beauty challenges for redheads. Most copper-haired ladies have very fair, almost non-existent brows. Defining, shaping and filling in the brows are important since they help shape the face.

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Get year off to healthy, fit start with tips from pros

Get year off to healthy, fit start with tips from pros

January 2017

Article By Erica Corsano

Whether you’re giving your lifestyle a serious makeover for the new year or just tweaking some bad habits in order to live healthier, it’s easy to start out with great intentions that fizzle out.

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Here’s To The Crazy Ones – 2017 New Year’s Resolution

Here’s To The Crazy Ones – 2017 New Year’s Resolution

January 2017

Article By Stacey Alcorn

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

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For the ‘selfie generation,’ a different kind of breast implant

For the ‘selfie generation,’ a different kind of breast implant

December 2016

Article By Megan Johnson

These days, a number of millennial women are embracing breast augmentation. But they’re avoiding the oversize implants that flashed across TV screens in the ’90s. Instead, a stable silicone implant commonly referred to as the “gummy bear” is gaining popularity.

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Dr. Joseph Russo – Top Doctors 2016

Dr. Joseph Russo – Top Doctors 2016

December 2016

Article by Hallie Smith

Newton Plastic Surgeon Joseph Russo with his new Kybella treatment, a jowlbusting, FDA approved injectable, uses deoxycholic acid to destroy existing fat cells and prevent the body from storing fat in the future.

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Dr. Joseph Russo – Inside Out

Dr. Joseph Russo – Inside Out

November 18th, 2016

Article by Stacey Alcorn

He’s a modern day Michelangelo, except for the fact that his art is very much alive. Thousands upon thousands of beautifully sculpted, buffed, and polished artistic creations living, breathing, and walking among us. For twenty-five years he has grown one of the largest cosmetic surgery empires in Massachusetts.

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Doctors see surge in men seeking surgery-free double chin solution

Doctors see surge in men seeking surgery-free double chin solution

November 21st, 2016

Article by Julie Revelant

“Men associate masculinity with sort of a chiseled jawline, a wide lower face and the absence of a double chin,” Dr. Joseph A. Russo, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Newton, Massachusetts, said.

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CELLULITE REMOVAL OPTIONS: WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN’T

CELLULITE REMOVAL OPTIONS: WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN’T

November 1st, 2016

Article by Marcia Layton Turner

The causes of cellulite are complicated and likely have more to do with genetics than anything else, but it’s more common in women because they have more subcutaneous fat and fewer septae,” says board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Joseph Russo of Boston, MA.

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This is the most coveted boob size, according to plastic surgeons

This is the most coveted boob size, according to plastic surgeons

August 31st, 2016

Article by Melissa Stanger

The average bra size for women in the US may be a 34DD, but for women who have the desire, and the money, to take matters (and by “matters” we mean “boobs”) into their own hands, a DD is not what they’re going for.

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PLASTIC SURGEONS ON THE WEIRDEST REQUESTS THEY’VE EVER RECEIVED

PLASTIC SURGEONS ON THE WEIRDEST REQUESTS THEY’VE EVER RECEIVED

October 20th, 2016

Article by Missy Wilkinson

“Although it has happened more than once, I still find it quite bizarre when I get requests to give women breasts that ‘don’t move.’ Women have asked for augmentations that are as high and solid as possible. One even went further to say she would like to be able to perform handsprings without them moving.” — Dr. Joseph A. Russo

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Don’t Raise your Brows Over This

Don’t Raise your Brows Over This

October 23rd, 2016

Article by Kara Baskin

Without a doubt, eyebrows are an important – but endlessly frustrating – facial feature. (I myself am one of the countless overly zealous women who have plucked theirs to oblivion.

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My Non-Negotiable Beauty Rule, According to 38 Experts

My Non-Negotiable Beauty Rule, According to 38 Experts

Article by Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Want to know what the beauty pros swear by? From dermatologists to plastic surgeons to makeup artists, we’ve got you covered

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This Will Be the Most Popular Plastic Surgery Treatment of 2017

This Will Be the Most Popular Plastic Surgery Treatment of 2017

Article by Amanda Montell

I don’t remember the exact day, but at some point this year, I realized that half the women I know are sporting some kind of injection—lip injections, under-eye injections, underarm injections.

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