Cosmetic Services and Surgery

Apex: Features Dermabrasion, the only proven method to rid your skin of wrinkles, large pores, uneven skin and moderate acne. Best of all, you’ll be able to go right back to work or resume your regular activities in just one hour. Location: 446 41^st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-534-7255.

Aventura Center For Cosmetic Surgery: Run by Dr. Sam Gershenbaum, the Aventura Center is a state-of-the-art facility with on-site surgical suites, overnight after care, and a full service day spa. The experienced staff also provides services such as face and neck lift, breast surgery and reconstruction, nose cosmetic surgery, tummy tuck, eyelid surgery, facial implants, reconstructive surgery, botox, collagen, hair restoration, etc., etc.  Location: 2954B Aventura Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-933-1838.

Greater Miami Vein Clinic: Offers laser treatment, sclerotherapy and surgery for spider veins, reticular veins and all types of varicosities. The clinic also does permanent hair removal, Photorejuvenation, Botox, facials, microdermabrasion, LPG Endermologie and nail and body treatments. Location: 1072 Kane Concourse, 96^th Street, Bay Harbor Islands. Phone: 305-293-1309.

Modern Therapy: Specializes in the use of human growth hormones (HGH), the latest rage for people hoping to turn back the aging clock. Location: 1680 Meridian Avenue, Suite 612, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-695-8929.

Dr. Martin Zaiac: Dr. Zaiac, a board-certified and licensed dermatologist, is a master of purified botulinum toxin type A…a/k/a Botox. A safe procedure used cosmetically for the reduction of facial lines, Zaiac has performed the procedures on models, celebrities, professionals and socialites in offices in Aventura, Mount Sinai and Alexia’s Day Spa in South Miami. Location: 4302 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-4478.

Advanced Dentistry of South Beach: The office specializes in laser bleaching, a process that brightens the dingiest of teeth in just one hour. Dr. Steven Roth is also expert in other areas of the art of reconstructive dentistry, including re-alignment and fixing chipped and otherwise damaged teeth. The office also has access to a pair of “virtual glasses” enabling patients to relax and watch a movie. Location: 1688 Meridian Avenue, Suite 414, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-534-7338.

Beach Dental Center: Dr. Georgia M. Hernandez offers complete dental care such as crowns, cosmetic bonding, bleachings, laminate veneers, cleaning, fillings, implant surgery, root canals, dentures and extractions. Location: 1370 Washington Avenue, Suite 201, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-3300.

Dentaland Dental Centers: Does cosmetic dentistry, bonding, whitening, dentures, crowns, bridges, extractions, implants, gum therapy, root canal and complete oral surgery. Location: 19501 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-935-1400.

Ileana Ramudo-Townsend: Well-versed in the study of periodontics (the branch of dentistry concerned with diseases of the bone and tissue supporting the teeth) and implants. Location: 1370 Washington Avenue, Suite 201, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-3242.

Arnold M. Sheir: Offers free consultations and un-free teeth cleaning, bleaching, bonding, implant reconstruction, etc. Location: 17971 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura.  Phone: 305-931-5252.

South Beach Dental:  Located in Decoplage, Dr. Luis A. Sanchez’s practice offers the latest in technology, including computerized anesthesia, which Sanchez says, “Puts patients at ease and makes a once difficult injection more comfortable.”  He also offers computerized radiographs that give the patients 50% less radiation. South Beach Dental offers financing and perks such as early appointments and valet parking. Location: 100 Lincoln Rd. #CU7, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-6977.

Bally Total Fitness:  The latest in gym equipment, cardiovascular machines, steam rooms and in-door pools. Plus an assortment of exercise classes. Location: 3455 N.E. 207^th Street, Aventura. Phone: 305-931-3181.

Body 2000:  The folks here use “the newest in fitness technology” to promote muscle stimulation. This place uses Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) electrodes to zap your nerves (thus blocking pain) and your muscles. Managers claim these sessions will tone your body and assist in shedding pounds. Really. Don’t believe?  Check out the website at www.MyBody2000.com or pay them a visit and chat.  Location: 1444 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-6113.

Gold’s Gym: Has free weights and state of the art machines and classes, of course. But this South Beach gym also has a full service juice bar, a health cafe, sundecks, and a “muscle beach” area on the roof. Location: 1400 Alton Road, Miami Beach; 170^th and Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach. Phone: (Miami Beach) 305-538-4653, (Sunny Isles) 305-945-7570.

Harbor Fitness: Besides offering the latest in exercise equipment, Harbor Fitness has a contingent of personal trainers, physical therapists and, for patrons who pulled a muscle or who are more in the mood to be pampered, massage therapists. Location: 1086 Kane Concourse, Bay Harbor Islands. Phone: 305-865-4144.

M. Power Project Gym: Yoga, aerobics, Pilates, spinning, personal trainers, free weights, weigh machines, cardio stage, free parking, child care and tanning booths are all available here. And in an offer that will end on September 30, you can get a three month membership for just $135. Location: 9037 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami Shores. Phone: 305-758-8600.

Master Sang’s Tae Kwon Do and Martial Arts Center: Sang Koo Kang is a seven time winner of the Sunshine State Tae Kwon Do Championship, a 6^th Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. He’s also considered a master of Muay Thai boxing and other fighting styles. Location: 7128 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-861-7166.

Miami Beach Martial Arts: Provides self defense instruction for men, women and children. Also offers kickboxing aerobics classes. Location: 923 41^st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-673-2467.

Normandy Gym: Bored with ordinary workouts? Danny Hawk’s Normandy Gym will seek to enhance your endurance and motivation through boxing, cardio kickboxing and body sculpting. $10 classes available as well as personal training. Location: 1145 71^st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-865-8570.

Olympia Gym: Owned by Peter Cicale, this gym offers free weights, machines, exercise classes and yoga, and an army of personal trainers. Location: 20335 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-932-3500.

Physique Transformations: Run by Jeff Seidman, Physique Transformations will try to help you become physically fit in just 12 short weeks in Seidman’s 3,200 square feet facility. Not bad for thrity-five bucks. Location: 1420 Alton Road, Miami Beach.  Phone: 305-672-8580.

Pilates Miami:  The owner of Pilates Miami, Kevin Bowen, equipped his studio with essential Pilate equipment and apparatuses. He also has a trained staff that is prepared to give private one-on-one sessions and group sessions for those interested in learning about Pilates.  For the really committed, Pilates Miami also teaches how to become a Pilates instructor. Location: 3936 North Miami Avenue, Miami. Phone: 305-573-4430.

Medical Services

Aventura Hospital and Medical Center: Recently underwent a $130 million expansion and now has a 26-bed emergency services department, two intensive care units, 10 new operating rooms and a six story, 815-space parking facility. Location: 20900 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-682-7000.

Dr. Alex Farshcian: Call him a visionary, call him radical, but Alex Farshcian believes that arthritis can be properly treated through Ligament and Joint Regeneration and Nuevogeneration therapy (a.k.a. LaJRan) where a serum of naturally produced growth stimulants is injected into an affected area inducing  “natural regeneration…of ligaments, tendon fibers, cartilages and joints, reversing arthritis and improving mobility.” Location: 9573 Harding Avenue, Surfside. Phone: 305-866-8384.

Gaffas Optical, Inc.: Has two doctors on staff: one specializing in eye exams and the other on contact lenses.  Has all the big names in stock.  Currently has a 50 percent off sale on all frames. Location: 7409 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-867-1500.

Impact Rehab: Robert Murdocco practiced physical therapy at Mt Sinai hospital for eight years before going to business with his occupational therapist wife, Jacqueline.  Impact Rehab treats patients with arthritis, recovering from surgery, afflicted with knee and hip pain, and also those who suffer from back pain, neurological impairment, Parkinson’s and acute pain. Location: 523 41^st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-2992.

Lee Ann Pharmacy: Opened in 1953 by Edward Cohn, Lee Ann has all the meds you would expect to find from the corporate giants, and with competitive prices. Lee Ann will also deliver to addresses all over Miami Beach and their staff is also knowledgeable in Spanish, English and Creole. Incidentally, Lee Ann is also a market, a variety store and is known as the place where people can pay their utility bills or wire money to far away places. Location: 955 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-1256.

Miami Beach Health Clinic: Non-profit full service clinic that provides a wide-range of affordable health care. Location: 710 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-538-8835.

Mount Sinai and Miami Heart Institute Medical Center: Each of this hospital’s campuses has fully operational emergency rooms staffed by board certified physicians.  The center has the only ER medical residency program in South Florida and their ER’s are among the few equipped to handle Hazmat emergencies. The staff is also actively involved in disaster planning for Miami Beach and Miami-Dade County. Forty thousand patients are treated in the center’s dual emergency rooms every year. Location: 4300 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-674-2600.

Parkway Regional Medical Center: Provides medical and surgical services, ER, maternity, pediatrics, a healthy heart center, rehab, spine and pain institute, wound care clinic and psychiatric services. Location: 160 N.W. 170^th Street, North Miami Beach. Phone: 305-651-1100.

South Shore Hospital: Possesses a 24-hour urgent care center, is home to the University of Miami’s Comprehensive Pain and Rehabilitation Center and has a comprehensive immunology center. Location: 630 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-2100.

Sun Bridge: A rehabilitation center where patients receive ongoing healthcare assessments from trained staffers. Sun Bridge offers IV Therapy, therapeutic activities, hospice care, respite care, wound care, respiratory services and intensive rehabilitation.  Sun Bridge also offers recreational activities, field trips and religious services for patients. Location: 42 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-1771.

Salons

By The Ocean: Opened two years ago by Alex Gomez, this full-service salon specializes in the latest beauty techniques such as glycolic acid facials, hair extensions, micro-derma abrasion, Brazilian bikini waxes and a wide array of other specialized services. Open 11 hours a day, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and staffers also provide hair and massage services for several prime hotels on the Beach—and the occasional Hollywood-type celebrity. Location: 1200 Ocean Drive, Suite 103, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-1023.

Face Maker Salon: A selection of packages is available – all of which can be customized to better meet customers’ needs, including bridal packages, fruit and herbs pedicures and manicures, massages, hair removal, etc. Make an appointment for Millie, the salon’s medical facialist. On Mondays you can get laser hair removal, collagen, and Botox from the salon’s resident medical doctor. Location: 5225 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305- 861-1255.  

Gerard Rossi Salon: After conquering Beverly Hills and New York with his salons Gerard Rossi brings his talents to Miami-Dade. A full-service salon, Gerard Rossi also includes a day spa and a gift shop. Rossi himself meets with each of his patrons on an individual basis to figure out what would best compliment them. Location: 1160 Kane Concourse, Bay Harbor Islands. Phone: 305-866-7939.

Hair Masters: For when you want to look your best without bankruptcy, Hair Master Unisex Salon is the place to look up. Location: 1428 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-6173.

Hannah and Her Scissors: A former colorist at New York’s Pipino Buccheri Salon, owner Hanah Lasky and her staff provide hair colorings, shampoos and stylings as well as manicures, pedicures, waxing and more. Lasky, who has been publicized in national beauty magazines, also has her own line of hair products. Location: 451 41^st Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-673-1445.

Manolo International Hair Salon: Owned by Manolo Ruiz, a stylist who has worked with Enrique Iglesias and Sophia Vergara, Manolo International offers services such as hair coloring, highlights, cuts, manicures, pedicures, facials, body massages and waxing.  Manolo also markets a complete line of beauty and spa accessories and products. Location: 2180 N.E. 123^rd Street, North Miami; 1166 Kane Concourse (Level 2), Bay Harbor Islands. Phone: 305-893-1022 (North Miami), 305-891-7128 (Bay Harbor).

Pino Leo Lina: Owner Gonzalo Perez has been involved in the salon business from the day he was born. Using experience acquired by himself and his family (who own salons in Argentina and Uruguay), he created a full service salon and spa specializing in hair, make-up, extensions, facials, waxing, manicures, pedicures and massages. Location: 9466 Harding Avenue, Surfside.  Phone: 305-867-0113.

Some Like It Hot: Located inside Brownes and Co., Some Like It Hot is an all-purpose salon offering skin care, massages, manicures, pedicures, unisex hairdressing, hair removal, etc. Location: 841 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-532-7752.

Steve’s Hair Design:  Steve Esteban Hernandez has assembled an experienced staff who know the ways of hair coloring and highlighting. This full-service salon has also perfected other hair dressing arts, pedicures, manicures, make-up and skin care. Steve’s Hair Design also carries over two dozen top of the line professional salon products and is the exclusive Miami Beach carrier of Guinot skin care items. Location: 765 –17^th Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-3547.

SuperCuts:  The place for both sexes to get their hair affordably cut and styled. No appointment needed. Just pop in. Location: 6784 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach; 1364 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: (North Beach) 305-865-6333, (South Beach) 305-531-8575.

Van Michael Miami Salon: Besides the talented beauty masters found at Van Michael (including owners Gina Derry and Leslie Munsell), this full-service salon is the only place in Florida to find thermal reconditioning, a way of straightening hair invented by the Japanese. Thermal reconditioning has been touted as the ultimate way of eliminating curls in this day and age where straight hair is all the rage. Location: 1667 Michigan Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-534-6789.

Aqua: Located on the penthouse floor of the Delano, the Aqua Bath House offers Biologique Skin Care treatments, Eve Lom, massages of various forms, specialized body services, guided meditations, wet body treatments, body baths, manicuring, pedicuring and other spa packages. Location: 1685 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-674-6100.

European Spa: Offering a variety of packages that include therapeutic whirlpools, oxygen steam bath, aromatherapy treatment, full body massage, deluxe facials, manicures and pedicures, scalp treatments, nourishing masks, healthy lunches, hot stone therapy, body wraps, mineral water, something called endermatherapy cellulite treatment, oxy-brasion, etc. Location: 9575 Harding Avenue, Surfside. Phone: 305-867-0100.

Nirvana: A 20,000 square foot spa in North Beach that has four different steam rooms: an all-cedar Russian steam room with Platza and aromatherapy treatments (the only one of its kind in the United States, according to the management), a Turkish Hamam steam room, a Lavendar Aromatherapy steam room and a Finish Sauna. Nirvana also has facilities that include a huge communal Jacuzzi, Swiss showers, a fully equipped gym, etc. Location: 8701 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-867-4850.

Merle Norman Cosmetics & Day Spa: Facials, enzyme peels, herbal body wraps, full waxing, nail service, eyelash tinting and a little thing called “photo rejuvenation.” All are available here. Location: 3785 N.E. 163^rd Street, North Miami Beach. Phone: 305-957-0025.

Ocean Point Beach Resort and Spa: Services include pool side massages in an Oceanside cabana, several forms of message therapy (including Swedish, Shiatsu, Hot Stone, Aromatherapy, Pre-Natal and Tiki Torch), rain forest body scrubs, reflexology, herbal wraps, facials, steam room and sauna.  If that isn’t enough, Ocean also has a full service salon and state-of-the-art fitness facilities. Location: 17375 Collins Avenue, Sunny Isles Beach. Phone: 786-528-2500.

Spa of Eden at the Eden Roc Spa: 55,000 square feet in size, the Spa of Eden offers massage, aromatherapy, scrubs and facials. Eden also has an Olympic-sized lap pool, a state-of-the-art gym, basketball, squash and racquetball facilities, Lifestyles Wellness sessions on the beach and Florida’s only indoor rock-climbing wall. Location: 4525 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-0000.

Williams Island Spa: A 27,000-square-foot facility that has been frequented by celebrities, sports personalities and other high-profile individuals. Features the latest cardiovascular and strength training equipment, personal trainers and classes and programs under the watchful eye of licensed or certified instructors. Plus a 60-foot indoor lap pool, steam rooms, saunas, whirlpools, and a full-service hair salon. Location: 5300 Island Boulevard, Aventura. Phone: 305-937-7860.

Waxing and Tanning

South Beach Body Waxing Co.: This establishment has developed all sorts of waxes sure to remove the most stubborn of body follicles while, at the same time, not damaging the surrounding flesh. Location: 1352 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-3130.

Tan V: All about tanning at this state of the art facility. And better yet, after receiving your first tanning session, the second one is free for the first time artificial tanner. No appointment necessary. Location: 844 Alton Road, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-672-0767.

Uni-K-Wax: Among the services offered include women’s body waxing, men’s body waxing, women’s face waxing, men’s face waxing as well as women’s special packages and men’s special package. By using the “European Wax System,” the staff of Uni-K-Wax can remove hair from any part of the face or body at a fraction of the cost of honey wax via a safe and gentle process sure to leave the skin “soft and silky smooth.”  Location: 771 17^th Street, Miami Beach. Phone: 305-531-7777.