Dr. Horton’s Blog

I waited over a year to write this blog series so I could best reflect on my experience and share the full patient experience with you.  I am very comfortable…

Any change in your body, especially when immediate, like in a breast augmentation, will affect your body image.  Everything you know about your body is suddenly different.  And even if…

After my breast augmentation, I took one week off performing surgery and just saw a few patients in the office.  The hardest day I had was actually self-inflected.  I had…

I am a firm believer in surgical drains after breast augmentation.  So much so, that I brought my OWN drains to my breast augmentation surgery (“BYOD” = bring your own…

On the night before of any Plastic Surgery procedure, I recommend that my patients take an anti-anxiety medication called Lorazepam (Ativan) to calm their nerves and help them get to…

Dr. Karen Horton is well-known and highly respected as a leading Plastic Surgeon in San Francisco. But did you know that she can also shake a mean martini? A recent…