Port Washington, NY Drs and Health Practioners

Diane Paxton of Inner Fire Integrative Health Services brings 23 years of experience to her detox programs, Chinese therapies, and colonic-irrigation treatments. This vocation wasn't her first, though. It took a journey through the world of desk jobs and stay-at-home motherhood accompanied by a long list of aches and ailments to discover she was truly destined for a career in alternative medicine.

Laced in a decorative color scheme of calming tans and beiges, Inner Fire's tranquil office offers a calming backdrop to the center's natural medical methods. Treatment rooms house minimalistic paintings and simple foliage displays, which evoke a sense of the outdoors and provide camouflage during games of hide-and-seek.

Dr. Stephanie Yampolsky negates the potential stresses of cosmetic, restorative, and preventative procedures with her six-step relaxation process. Whether patients need root canals or veneers, Dr. Yampolsky spirits their anxiety away with warm pillows and blankets, soothing music, and virtual-reality goggles that bathe eyes in meditative videos, slideshows, and images of Fabio's silken hair. As her patients sink into relaxation, she expertly rights dental wrongs, employing gentle drill-free lasers, four varieties of teeth-whitening treatments, and Invisalign dental aligners.

Born and raised in New York, Dr. Lana Rozenberg comes from a family of dentists. This combination conspired to inspire a lifelong dedication to managing the oral health of her fellow New Yorkers. After a brief sojourn west for a stint at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco, Dr. Rozenberg returned to New York for advanced work at NYU. Her practice’s blend of general dentistry with cutting edge dental techniques earned her the attention of the city’s population and the editors who write about them. In addition to bolstering her patients’ smiles, Dr. Rozenberg also makes time for feature coverage in outlets ranging from Vogue to CNN.

So, what are some of these revolutionary treatments? Gumoflage is one. The corrective procedure mends smiles that show too much gum by repositioning the upper lip so that it doesn’t creep up too high. A scalpel-free smile lift is another, building up teeth and creating a fuller, wider smile through the use of veneers. To enliven faded grins, she also uses the Zoom whitening process, which breaks down stains and discoloration in less than an hour. Dr. Rozenberg also branches out past the mouth, enhancing faces’ overall youthfulness with cosmetic injectables such as Botox and Juvéderm.

Certified practitioner Sara Puerto fights cellulite with the noninvasive massage technology of Endermologie. Her hope is to succeed where exercise, creams, and assiduously applied rolling pins have failed, smoothing skin previously subject the vagaries of hormones and genetics. Though her clients are primarily women, she also helps gents contour their bodies or improve their circulation with these kneading treatments.

A second-generation eye surgeon, Dr. Julia Giyaur specializes in blade-free LASIK operations that are cutting edge in every sense but the literal one. In two locations in Brooklyn and Rego Park, Dr. Giyaur provides basic eye care such as check-ups and surgical vision correction, treatments for conditions such as cataracts, glaucoma, dry eye, and astigmatism, and a few aesthetic services such as Botox and Restylane. A LASIK patient herself, Dr. Giyaur helps allay her clients’ fears or concerns on her blog, covering recently asked questions and common ocular ailments.