Category: breast lift

Breast Lifts Cause A Drop In Bra Cup Size

Sagging of the breasts is a common development for most women due to aging, pregnancy or weight loss. It is most severe with multiple pregnancies or significant amounts of weight loss. While corrective breast lifting is most frequently performed with implants to restore and even increase original breast volume, it can also be done Read More…

Artefill Injections for Acne Scars

Acne scarring remains a very difficult facial problem that defies any single method of improvement. Fundamentally, acne scars are treated by either outer skin resurfacing, complete excision, or injectable filling for pushing out the depressed scar. Each approach has its own utility based on the type of acne scar size and shape. The simplest Read More…

Five Things You May Not Know About Custom Facial Implants

The use of facial implants dates back to over fifty years ago when the first chin augmentation was done. With the expansion of facial implant styles and sizes over the years, there are many options today for nose, cheek, chin and jaw angle implants as the standard facial areas treated. In addition to these areas, Read More…

The Biology of Injectable Fat Grafting – When Will I See The Final Result?

The principal objective for fat grafting today is to serve as a soft tissue filler. Patients understandably expect that the fat that is injected will largely survive and they will retain much of the initial result for a successful outcome. A properly educated patient, however, will have been informed that fat graft survival is Read More…

The Biology of Injectable Fat Grafting – How Does It Work?

Injectable autologous fat grafting has been around about as long as liposuction but has only achieved widespread clinical use and acceptance more recently. Few skeptics remain in plastic surgery as to its potential utility or in the techniques to do it. The only semi-controversy about fat grafting is in the breast because of its unknown Read More…

Case Study: Custom Occipital Implant For Flat Back Of The Head Deformity

Background: Skull shape deformities are not typically perceived as an aesthetic problem. But just because they are not common does not mean they are not just as significant to someone who has it nor that they can not be improved satisfactorily. There are a wide range of aesthetic skull deformities that affect its entire length Read More…

Case Study: Male Chest Reshaping After Weight Loss

Background: Significant or extreme weight loss is defined as any amount over 75 lbs. or more. Such amounts of weight loss are most commonly caused by bariatric bypass, sleeve and gastric stapling procedures. Although there are some patients who do lose such large amounts of weight by their own diet and exercise efforts. One of Read More…

Silicone Breast Implants: Past, Present and Future

Silicone breast implants have been around since 1962, encompassing a complicated and interesting history of device development that now spans over five decades. Between three U.S. manufacturers, a wide array of commercially available breast implant devices exist today. Saline-filled devices have not really changed over these years but silicone-based implants have undergone a significant Read More…

Plastic Surgery Wisdom: Predictability of Operative Outcomes

For many plastic surgery procedures from facial reshaping to breast augmentation, it is often a numbers game. Sizes and dimensional measurements are a key part of numerous face and body procedures, particularly those that involve the use of an implant in particular. But even in those operations that do not involve an implant, measurements are Read More…

Facial Volume Enhancement By Injectable Fillers

Loss of facial fat is a common occurrence as many people age. With loss of this fat volume comes tissue sagging, some of which would not have occurred if it was held up better by retained tissue support. One of today’s new uses for injectable fillers is in the treatment of this facial pseudoptosis. Using Read More…