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Sientra Breast Implants in Indianapolis

  It has been nearly 2 1/2 years since a new company, Sientra, was permitted to produce and sell breast implants in the U.S. with FDA approval. Sientra joined two other major U.S. manufacturers of breast implants to make a total of three product lines from which to choose for their patients. While there are Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Breast Augmentation in Asymmetric Breasts

Background: Despite the breasts being a paired chest structure, they rarely are perfectly symmetric. These asymmetries may be slight and often are completely unrecognized by many women until they are pointed out. Larger breast asymmetries are more well known to the patient and may have been caused by natural breast development, pregnancies, breast feeding or Read More…

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…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Breast Implants with Periareolar Lift

Background: Loss of breast volume is very common amongst women usually caused by pregnancies or weight loss. As the breast deflates sagging of the breast mound often occurs. As long as the nipple remains positioned at or above the inframammary fold (lower breast crease) augmentation with breast implants will adequately fill up and out the 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…

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