In the Media

Social Media and Unrealistic Expectations: Orange County-based board-certified plastic surgeon Goretti Ho Taghva opened her clinic in part because she felt that plastic surgery failed to represent her own “ideals of beauty” as an Asian woman…

How To Pick The Best Eyebrow Treatment For You, According To Brow Experts: Eyebrows not only accentuate your eyes they also frame your face and give it character. This is why choosing the right brow treatment is so important. But with so many eyebrow treatments available today…

I Haven’t Gotten Injections in a Half a Year—Does It Mean I’ll Need a Double Dose Now?: A shared trait among many of the patients who frequent Denver dermatologist Joel Cohen, MD’s practice is that they’ve missed their regularly scheduled aesthetic treatments over the past six months as a result of the stay-at-home guidance…

The 7 Top Requests Plastic Surgeons Have Received Most After Reopening: The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) recently conducted a member survey to highlight which procedures patients want to get to first when their doctor’s offices reopen…

More Than Meets The Eye: We are proud to announce that Dr. Goretti H. Taghva has been hand-selected by New Beauty as a partner and will be featured in the Fall 2019 edition of New Beauty magazine, due on newsstands Fall 2019…

A Lesser-Known Plastic Surgery Procedure is Boosting Confidence and Changing Lives: Nose jobs, boob jobs, tummy tucks: they’re all procedures we’re familiar with because they’re constantly in high demand in every plastic surgeon’s practice. Patients are looking for a cuter nose, larger breasts, or a smaller stomach, but sometimes we forget just how vast the world of plastic surgery actually is…

Forehead Fat Transfer: Forehead fat transfer is a procedure that involves grafting the patient’s own body fat to minimize wrinkles and add volume to the face, creating an anti-aging effect. The key to this procedure is harvesting the fat gently and manually in order to ensure a higher viability of usable fat cells…

Double Eyelid Surgery: Double eyelid surgery creates a crease that makes the eyes appear larger and more alert. While Caucasians typically are born with a double eyelid crease, approximately 50% of Asians do not have a double eyelid crease…

The Long-Lasting Must-Have ‘Walk-In, Walk-Out’ Cosmetic Procedure: As many seek Kardashian-esque cosmetic tweaks and with ‘walk-in, walk-out’ elective procedures continuing to grow in popularity, it is important to discuss the options, even if surgeons are not talking about them. These two cosmetic options are natural vs. synthetic fillers…