Quatela Center for Plastic Surgery's Blog

The temperature is finally starting to rise and the weather is getting more beautiful as each day passes. Before you know it, summer will be here and there is no better time to prepare for it than now. The majority of our patients consider breast enhancement for years before eventually taking the plunge.  Those same patients commonly report that the only regret they have following surgery is that they didn’t do it sooner. If you’ve been thinking about breast augmentation, read on to see why now is a great time to take the next step. What is the healing process … Continue reading

Day 7: Today is the day I get my cast off and get to see my nose!  I’m excited but very nervous.  I have watched quite a few YouTube videos with patients that cry when they look in the mirror for the first time.  Some of them are happy and some of them hate their new nose.  I’ve learned that almost everyone eventually comes around and loves their result with sufficient time.  Rhinoplasty seems to demand patience which is tough since I like instant gratification.  However, when I made the decision to do this surgery, I also promised myself that … Continue reading

Day 3: I woke up feeling great because I had a good night’s sleep.  I did wake myself up on a few occasions with a dry mouth.  I just drank some water and went back to bed without any issues.  I can certainly feel more pressure in my face today but nothing that bad.  My biggest complaint would be that my front teeth are numb and I have some slight pain on my top row of teeth.  On a scale of 1 to 10, I would call it a 2.  It’s more annoying than painful. My bruising has dropped a … Continue reading

Day One: I was up a lot last night.  Since there is packing in my nose, I basically can’t use my nose to breathe so I have to breathe through my mouth.  That equates to dry mouth and very dry lips.  I have a few bottles of water on my nightstand along with a jar of Aquaphor that I apply several times an hour to my lips.  I also drank almost all of my water.  It may seem like overkill but I assure you it’s not.  I also have a humidifier by my bed to help with the moisture in … Continue reading

ROCHESTER, N.Y., February 21, 2019 –  William J. Koenig has been named among the Top 1,000 Aesthetic Doctors on RealSelf. William J. Koenig is one of 1,000 board-certified doctors, and the only one in Rochester, New York, to be inducted into the RealSelf Hall of Fame, an honor recognizing the highest-rated and most active doctors on RealSelf, the leading online marketplace to learn about cosmetic treatments and connect with medical aesthetic providers.  For eight years, the annual RealSelf 100 and 500 awards recognized doctors with outstanding records of high patient ratings who have given back to the RealSelf community by … Continue reading

Hunger has no boundaries.  It affects millions of children, seniors and households in communities across the country.  Alarming new numbers were recently released about the number of people who go hungry in Rochester and its surrounding counties.  They show that more than 150,000 people in our ten-county region, including one in five children, are considered “food insecure;” meaning they have limited or uncertain access to adequate nutritious food.  Foodlink offers a suite of food access programs to provide a host of access points to nutritious and affordable food to underserved communities in Monroe, Allegany, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, … Continue reading