I am often asked by my breast implant patients to go as big as possible, but let’s consider the downsides. There is more pain after large breast implant surgery. The pocket for the implant is stretched by the large implant and this causes pain. It makes recovery longer and may cause more swelling. They are… Read More »
Can breast implants improve your sex life?
Most women, at one time or another, wonder what it would be like to have breast implants. Realself.com went one better. They asked, “Do breast implants improve a woman’s sex life?” To get answers, they took a survey of women who had breast implants or lifts. Here is what they found: • Sixty-one percent of… Read More »
Treatment of Capsular Contracture
We know that breast capsular contracture is a thickening and shrinkage of the scar tissue that surrounds all breast implants. This shrinkage causes the breast implant to become compressed, hard and misshapen. Conservative Treatment: This is non-operative treatment. The patient is advised to push the breast implant in an effort to stretch out the shrinking… Read More »
Causes of Capsular Contracture
Scars around the breast implants occur in everyone who has had a breast implant. This is normal. In my explanation it is similar to the lining of your coat pocket. This lining can stretch or shrink and we do not know how to control it. It can happen in one breast or both. It can… Read More »
Effects of Capsular Contracture
Capsules are scars. They completely envelop the breast implant, just like a lining in your clothes pocket will surround a balloon if you put a balloon in your pocket. Scar capsule can shrink. Since we do not know why, the least we can do is to observe exactly what happens. The capsule may shrink at… Read More »
Breast Implants and capsules
Whenever the human body is cut it heals with a scar. We see the outside scar, but there is scar inside too. When breast implants are placed in the human breast the space for the breast implant becomes lined with scar all around, like a ball or like the lining of a pocket. We call… Read More »
Unequal Breasts
When I see someone with unequal breasts several issues need to discussed. 1. First we need to analyze what is different about the breasts. It might be shape or volume or both. Measurements are taken. 2. Second it is important to find out from the patient what she wants and which breast she prefers. 3…. Read More »
Cosmetic Surgery Statistics for 2008
Here are some interesting facts as reported by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. I am a member of this society. From 2007-2008, there was over a 12 percent decrease in the total number of cosmetic procedures. Surgical procedures decreased by 15 percent, and nonsurgical procedures decreased by almost 12 percent. The top five… Read More »
Why I prefer the peri-areola incision choice
1. The scar is usually better. It is camouflaged at the brown to regular skin color junction. It hardly ever becomes keloid. I have seen the incision under the breast get keloid more often. The incision under the breast is in plain skin and therefore shows more clearly – at least until it fully matures,… Read More »
The Cup Size Conundrum
I am always being asked “What is the difference between a “C” cup and a “D” cup. This is a very difficult question because there is no standard and how can you describe a cup size in words? To make things more difficult the “C” cup for a 32C and 34C and 36C are all… Read More »
