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Case Study: Breast Implant Size Exchange For Bigger Breasts

Background: The choice of implant size is often the most important issue that every women ponders before her breast augmentation procedure. While there is no exact science to making that selection, important considerations include breast and implant base diameters, the amount of breast mound skin and what final breast shape (round vs. tear drop) Read More…

The Risk of Breast Implants Falling Out

A recent story from the New York Daily News reports on a young woman who had a breast implant ‘fall out of her body’. While very unfortunate for this young lady, this very concern is one that prospective breast augmentation patients often ask if it can happen. Since the most common location for the Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Breast Implants and Attractiveness

Breast implants have now been with us for over fifty years and they are likely to be with us for at least another fifty years and longer. Their popularity has never been higher in the U.S. with over 300,000 breast augmentations performed in 2012, making it the number one cosmetic procedure performed. Women who get Read More…

Breast Implants – A Fifty Year History

Breast implants have undergone an interesting and at times tumultous history. While they have brought improved self-esteem and restoration of a more normal body shape to tens of millions of women, they have also had their share of legal and regulatory issues. This is not surprising given the very large numbers of patient implanted Read More…

Common Questions About Mommy Makeovers

Mommy Makeover is a descriptive term that has worked its way into the plastic surgery nomenclature in a very short time. Introduced just a few years, women are increasingly requesting this type of surgery. While the term may be recent, the plastic surgery operations used in it have been around for over half a century. Read More…

Case Study: Small Silicone Gel Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast augmentation is one surgical plastic surgery procedure whose numbers performed per year continue to rise. One such reason is that the desire for larger breasts encompasses a wide variety of desires from being just a little bigger to very big and a large number of implant styles and sizes to match. On both Read More…

Case Study: The Value of Nipple Lifts in Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast implants are placed in a wide variety of breast shapes. While they will always increase breast size that does not mean an improved breast shape will always result. A key feature of the perception of breast shape is the location of the nipple-areolar complex. It is always most aesthetically pleasing when it is Read More…

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…

Case Study: Breast Augmentation in the Female Bodybuilder

Background: Breast augmentation can be done placing implants either above or below the pectoralis major muscle. There are arguments for and against either implant location although the vast majority of plastic surgeons today opt for an under the muscle (subpectoral) implant position. The reasons are better tissue coverage of the implant and a reduced risk Read More…

Subpectoral vs Subglandular Breast Implant Placement

One of the historic debates in primary (first time) breast augmentation is whether the implants should be placed above or below the pectoralis muscle. While this issue has various opinions amongst different plastic surgeons and has waxed and waned over the years as implant options have changed, it is important that prospective patients know the Read More…