September is an exciting month at Santa Barbara Plastic Surgery Center. Dr. Buchanan has unveiled an all new breast specialty website, www.santabarbarbreast.com that contains in-depth information about all of the breast enhancement procedures he offers including breast augmentation, and breast implant replacement surgery. Visitors can also view an extensive gallery of before and after breast surgery photos and watch videos about our practice.
We are also excited to offer patients a Botox® rebate plus a FREE lip plumper with a syringe of Juvederm®! To schedule your appointment, please call the office at (805) 687-7336.

With the kids headed back to school, you can now spend some time on yourself! Santa Barbara Plastic Surgery Center has some great “Back to School” themed specials that are valid during entire month of August. Highlights include savings on BOTOX® and Microdermabrasion, Refer a Friend incentives, and customized Mommy Makeover procedure packages. For more information about these offers or to schedule your appointment, please call us today!

In celebration of the 1st anniversary of Latisse eyelash enhancer, we are bringing you a special deal that could save you up to $100 on Botox® and Juvederm®! All you have to do is visit our office to purchase your Latisse solution kit and you will have a chance to get a rebate for up to $100 off on Botox® and Juvederm® if they are right for you.

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“I am very pleased with the results of my treatment. People tell me that I look so happy and refreshed. I cannot say enough about Kathy and the way she treated me during the procedure. She was so patient and kind and with her talent, both with the treatment as well as her demeanor towards me, I sailed through it. We cowards need someone like Kathy to guide us through. Thank you and your staff for your kindness and understanding.”  – Sincerely, Injectable Patient

Welcome to our Blog!  In this section of our website, we will frequently add new information about our practice including the latest developments in plastic surgery procedures, products, and technology.  You can use the navigation on the left of the page to browse different categories and view information according to date.  We encourage you to come back often to view our latest posts amd  invite you to call or email our office with any questions.

1. His specialty is creating a NATURAL LOOK for patients seeking Facial and Eyelid Rejuvenation, Breast Augmentation, and Body Contouring.
2. He has performed thousands of successful surgeries over the past 25 years for many Happy Patients.
3. He has an exceptional word of mouth reputation, which brings our office a steady supply of referred new patients.
4. He believes in personalized care, limiting the surgeries he performs to approximately 300 cases per year.
5. He is an active and well respected member of the Santa Barbara community and has practiced locally for over 26 years.
6. He is a long time active member of the Cottage Hospital Surgery Department, and our office is conveniently located just one block from the Hospital.
7. He selects only Board Certified Anesthesiologists from Cottage Hospital to assist him in surgery.  (Many practices use a registered Nurse to cut costs).
8. He works out of his office Monday through Thursday and he or the office staff is available to see you in an emergency if the need arises.
9. He has been certified with the American Board of Plastic Surgery since 1983.
10. His talented, warm, caring staff will treat you with respect and do all in their power to make sure your experience goes as smoothly as possible from start to finish.
11. He cares about YOU as if you were a member of his own family.

Santa Barbara is a special place to live. We feel it is a special community. We have lots of weekend visitors from the Los Angeles area because we are about 90 miles north. We have beautiful beaches, relatively unspoiled. We have got an actual working harbor where the fishing boats go out every morning and come back. We have a wide variety of restaurants. We have the Santa Barbara Mission, one of the great old missions clear off the California coast that draws people. But, I think the main attraction is that it feels like a small almost a Midwestern community 90 miles north of the bustling metropolis of Los Angeles, so we think it is a special place and we are delighted to be able to live here.

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What our office does if we have a request from somebody say from Australia that wants to come is we exchange a series of e-mails because we want to be specific about what procedure they would like to have done and whether or not they are a candidate for it and often I will ask them to send me photographs and talk about their health in general and make sure that if they do come there is a high probability that the surgery can be performed and we will arrange for accommodations here in Santa Barbara. We have several B&Bs that we work with. There are several wonderful hotels right on the water and we can help arrange the accommodations that are appropriate for that person and the person who is traveling with them. So, once we have determined that there is a high likelihood that the patient can come and be seen and operated on the next day or two, we will go ahead and schedule the visit. We will examine them when they arrive and then we will proceed with surgery the next day or the day after. We will have already arranged for accommodations for the next usually 10 to 14 days because I would like people to come and I like them to stay so that I can ensure that they have an uneventful recovery and what I do not do is let people fly in, have a big operation, fly home two days later, and say I will have the doctor at home take my stitches out. I just do not think that is good medicine. People come, they stay for a couple of weeks, and then they will leave and they will return home and usually I ask them to send me via e-mail photographs at about a month and to e-mail their photograph if there are any questions or concerns, and we usually follow up with e-mails and phone calls for a period of two to three months after surgery to make sure that everything is okay.

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We have a wide variety of patients who come and many patients are local patients and they like to stay near home and have their surgery done. Some people come from a distance. We have had engineers come from Germany. We have had patients from Canada, from Mexico, from Australia, from a distance and usually the reason that people were coming from a distance is that they value a certain expertise that I have and they want me to do their particular type of surgery. Having said that, in virtually all the major cities of the world there are talented, conscientious, hard-working physicians and that is a choice that people have to make personally. Some people come to Santa Barbara because they want to have the Santa Barbara experience, by that I mean they would like to be recovering down by the beach and listening to the waves in a pleasant place that is sunny most of the time as opposed to in a hotel room somewhere in a big city. So those are sort of personal choices and it has to do also with the spouse or the friend that is coming to be with him and it is sometimes more fun for them if they can be in a resort area than in a city situation. So there are lots of ways to look at it and we have as I say local patients, patients from all over California, the West and then we have you know occasionally patients who come from Europe as well.

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Most people that come to Santa Barbara are drawn to the beaches and Stearns Wharf is very pretty right centrally located with some good restaurants and views of the beach and the mountains and the whole Santa Barbara scene, so that is usually a good starting point. The El Encanto Hotel excellent view is up near the mission. The Santa Barbara Mission is definitely worth a trip with the Rose Gardens adjacent to it. The lower portion of State Street near the beach is full of cute shops and restaurants and Sushi places and we find a lot of people like to stroll back and forth on lower State Street. The Biltmore Hotel is a classic hotel, beautiful hotel and when you are feeling better, maybe towards the end of your trip that is a wonderful place to go sit on the verandah and have a light dinner. We find that that is interesting. The Santa Barbara Wine Country over the pass and into Santa Ynez is very popular and if people have enough energy that is a fun trip, a wine tasting trip. Often that is something they do later when they come back, not right after their surgery. But those are a few of the highlights that a lot of people like to see.

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