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Classification and Treatment Approaches to the Tuberous Breast

Tuberous breasts are a well known congenital breast problem that presents in varying degrees of deformity. It has its greatest impact with the patient who presents for breast augmentation and often adjunctive strategies must be done at the time of implant placement to get a good breast shape result. Women often recognize that their breast(s) Read More…

Case Study: Large Breast Implants in Smaller Women

Background: The size of breast implants selected for any woman’s breast augmentation is usually a hybrid between the patient’s desire and the surgeon’s recommendations. Many women are heavily focused on a natural look and fear looking like they have had their breasts ‘done’. They talk about being proportionate and having a new breast size that Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Small Natural Breast Augmentation

Background: Many may perceive that breast augmentation is about getting bigger breasts  but for many women is merely about getting back to what they once had. Usually due to pregnancies and breast feeding, a woman’s actual breast volume will almost always become less through a normal biologic phenomenon known as involution. This may not be Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Stretch Marks and Breast Augmentation Surgery

Background: Breast implant surgery works by the simple principle of placing a device under the breast tissues that pushes outward and creates a larger breast mound. Regardless of whether the implant is placed under the glandular tissue (subglandular) or partially or completely submuscular the outward result of a larger breast remains the same. Since the Read More…

MRI and Cancer Detection in Women with Breast Implants

When one combines the number of elective breast augmentations performed and the incidence of breast cancer occurrence, it is no surprise that the two would intersect. While ultrasound and mammography are excellent breast cancer screening tools they are not perfect and not every tumor will be detected. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a well known Read More…

Case Study – Breast Rejuvenation in Older Women with Implants

Background: The demand for breast implants has not waned in women over the past several decades. This is a testament to the success of the procedure in accomplishing its single goal…effective breast enlargement. The devices used to accomplish this body contouring goal have been modified and improved over the years, and are not without their Read More…

Case Study – Silver (Older Women) Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast augmentation continues to enjoy widespread popularity and literally is a procedure for all ages today. While the majority of women getting breast implants is still largely under the age of fifty (50), the above fifty group who are willing to have the surgery is growing. While once it seemed rare to have women Read More…

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