Wrinkles are a natural part of aging. Each smile and raised eyebrow encourages your skin to take a new shape. Treating them should be simple, but the market is flooded with potential solutions. Whether you’re looking for a new product or your first in-office treatment, there’s something out there for you. If you’re interested in […]
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Microneedling is a safe and straightforward procedure that can help firm and brighten your skin. It employs the help of your own body’s immune system to send fresh, new collagen to the treated areas, giving your skin a rejuvenated glow. It’s quickly becoming a prevalent type of cosmetic therapy because it carries fewer risks than many other
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Dr. Barrera has extensive experience providing the highest levels of surgical expertise for his patients for over 35 years. He is a double board-certified plastic surgeon, both by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology (head and neck surgery). With that level of knowledge and experience, Dr. Barrera is called
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When a person suffers hair loss from an accident, burn, birth defect, tumor removal, or even from a former facelift performed elsewhere, Dr. Barrera has extensive experience helping those patients return hair to areas where it has been lost. This is known as reconstructive hair transplantation. What Is Reconstructive Hair Transplantation? While many people seek
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Humans lose around 100 hairs every day. For most people this doesn’t become a problem because other hair follicles are entering the hair growth phase and growing new hair. Hair loss occurs when follicles begin to spend more time in the resting phase or become fully dormant. Dr. Barrera helps patients from Houston and the
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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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