Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Understanding Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

When looking at our site, you see the cosmetic applications of Dr. Hetzler’s surgical expertise, but that’s only part of what he can do for you. Dr. Hetzler is also adept at hand surgery, correcting problems caused by injuries and degenerative disorders. One of the most common hand disorders is carpal tunnel syndrome. The carpal […]

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scar revision surgery

Revising a Scar

Human skin can be tricky. When injured it will invariably create a scar. But how that scar develops and how noticeable it will be is unpredictable. When you have a scar that you feel is too visible, you can opt for scar revision with Dr. Hetzler. Although no scar can be magically removed completely, he […]

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Saving Your Kid the Teasing About His Ears

School can often not be a place for the meek, especially if the person has ears that project away from their head, or if the ears are overly large. Because they are so visible, ears like this are prime targets for teasing. This kind of negative interplay day after day can really take a toll […]

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Botox

Botox Isn’t Just a Bully to Wrinkles

Everyone knows Botox beats up wrinkles. The injectable is so well known around the world that people think it’s been around forever just giving crow’s feet the one/two punch. Not so. The FDA only approved Botox to fight wrinkles in 2002. However, before that, Botox had been around for a few decades for other medical […]

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arm lift

No One Wants Flappy Upper Arms

While there will be many a Batman coming to your door on Halloween, you don’t want anything to do with “bat wings.” That is the flattering term for loose skin on the underside of your upper arms that is a result of fluctuations in weight, loosening skin and muscle, even just heredity. No matter how […]

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plastic surgery

Twenty-One Million Procedures in 2015

There are ways to make statistics more relatable. For instance, you could equate the statistics with a population to give a random number some meaning. If you did that with the number of aesthetic procedures from 2015, you could use the country of Romania as a comparison. Picture that every person in the country had […]

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liposuction

Different Liposuction Techniques

When liposuction was first introduced in the United States in the 1980s it was a fairly traumatic procedure for the tissues involved. The cannulas that were inserted were quite a bit larger than those used today, and they were moved back and forth quite violently under the skin to break loose the fat cells that […]

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Laser Resurfacing

Laser Resurfacing is Making Dermabrasion a Thing of the Past

When people have wanted to remove an extensive degree of sun damaged and other problematic skin, the option has usually been dermabrasion or deep chemical peels, invasive methods of resurfacing that demand extensive recovery periods. But the introduction of lasers to skin resurfacing is proving to be more popular because of the precision and easier […]

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Vi Peel

The Vi Peel

If you stay up with trends in skin care, you’ve probably heard about the Vi Peel. We now offer this popular chemical peel in Dr. Hetzler’s practice. What is the Vi Peel? The Vi Peel is a blend of synergistic peeling agents such as trichloroacetic acid, glycoloic acid, and lactic acid. These are the three […]

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breast lift

Bringing Your Breasts Back Up

Gravity isn’t kind to a woman’s breasts. Add to its constant downward pull pregnancy and breastfeeding, weight gain and loss, and decreasing skin elasticity that comes with age and the result is drooping, sagging breasts that aren’t as firm or as high on the chest as they were in younger days. With those sagging breasts […]

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