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Case Study: Implant Augmentation of the Deflated Post-Pregnancy Breast

Background: The breasts are well known to be changing structures throughout a women’s lifetime. While gravity does have its own effect over time, the impact of pregnancies is usually more significant. While the increase in size is a well known effect of pregnancy on the breast, less appreciated is the actual loss of breast tissue Read More…

Postoperative Instructions for Temporal Implants

  Temporal augmentation with implants is done by inserting them through a small vertical incision in the temporal hairline. They are placed on top of the muscle but below the overlying fascia. They are composed of a very soft and flexible silicone material that feels like soft tissue (muscle or fat) and not hard like Read More…

Consent for Plastic Surgery: Temporal Implants

  Every plastic surgery procedure has numerous issues that every patient who is undergoing a procedure should know. These explanations are always on a consent form that you should read in detail before surgery. This consent form, while many perceive as strictly a legal protection for the doctor, is actually more intended to improve the Read More…

World of Plastic Surgery: El Salvador

  El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America, oftened called the Tom Thumb of the Americas. With a population of just over 6 million in a land mass of around 8,000 square miles (the size of the state of Massachusetts), it is also the most densely populated country south of Mexico. It is Read More…

Postoperative Instructions for Scar Revision

  Scar revision is most commonly done by surgical excision of the scar and putting it back together as either a straight line or a geometric or broken line closure pattern. The type of scar revision used depends on the location of the scar, its size and dimensions and the patient’s skin characteristics. The following Read More…

Consent for Plastic Surgery: Scar Revision

  Every plastic surgery procedure has numerous issues that every patient who is undergoing a procedure should know. These explanations are always on a consent form that you should read in detail before surgery. This consent form, while many perceive as strictly a legal protection for the doctor, is actually more intended to improve the Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Mineral Water

  Everyone knows the benefits of drinking water for hydration and ultimately for survival. But what is the deal with mineral water? While tap and many bottled waters have a modest amount of minerals, it is just a fraction of what is found in various mineral waters. Such water is derived having flowed through rocks Read More…

Postoperative Instructions for Breast Lifts with Implants

  Breast reshaping for many women requires a combination of volume enhancement/restoration and lifting of sagging skin and a low nipple-areolar position. Saline or silicone breast implants are placed in a complete or partial submuscular position and various types of lifts are performed on the overlying breast skin envelope. In most cases of significant breast Read More…

Consent for Plastic Surgery: Breast Lifts with Implants

  Every plastic surgery procedure has numerous issues that every patient who is undergoing a procedure should know. These explanations are always on a consent form that you should read in detail before surgery. This consent form, while many perceive as strictly a legal protection for the doctor, is actually more intended to improve the Read More…

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