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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
Sientra breast implants may have had a rough patch in the past six months due to a voluntary cessation of manufacturing and distribution of their implants. But now that their breast implants have been fully cleared again by the FDA with no concerns about them or their manufacturing process, they are now again clinically Read More…
Background: Severe sagging of the breasts occurs for a variety of reasons but the most common is weight loss. Weight loss creates the unaesthetic combination of excessive stretched out breast skin and loss of breast volume. Occurring together this allows many breast mounds to fall over the inframammary fold carrying the nipple with it. The Read More…
Background: It is well known in breast implant surgery that the final shape of the breasts afterwards is highly influenced by what they looked like before. Besides asymmetry, the most common adverse breast shape problem seen in breast augmentation patients is sagging or ptosis. Such breast mound sagging can occur in many degrees of Read More…
Background: Sagging or ptosis of the breasts is seen in s wide variety of forms, all of which can influence breast augnentation results. Severe or Grade III and IV breast ptosis is an easy breast lift decision to make as there is no other choice. Grade I breast ptosis is also an easy decision as Read More…
Sientra has announced today that all of their products, including the Sientra Silicone Gel Breast Implants, will be returning to market effective March 1, 2016. Based on extensive independent testing and analyses that were performed on Sientra breast implants over the past four months, the FDA has determined that they are perfectly safe for Read More…
Breast implants create their effect by causing an instantaneous expansion of the overlying breast mound. This relatively simple and obvious concept causes a variety of postoperative effects on the shape of the breast that are often incompletely understood by patients…although understandably so. Some of their well known effects is that implants just make the breasts Read More…
Background: Breasts that are either deflated or have developed sagging are prime reasons to pursue breast augmentation surgery. Pregnancy and weight loss are the most common culprits for causing this type of breast shape change. Breast augmentation surgery is the solution to these breast shape concerns. With loss of the supporting breast volume combined with Read More…
Background: Placing implants to increase breast size is the most common surgical method of breast enhancement. The most common non-surgical method of breast enhancement are tattoos. When it comes to breast tattoos, there is an endless variety of patterns, sizes and colors. From words to images to some incredible artistic patterns, breast tattoos are as Read More…
Background: Many women who are to undergo breast augmentation surgery have asymmetric breasts. These asymmetries may be in breast mound size, breast mound shape, amounts of sagging and the nipple position. Preoperative education about how breast implants will impact these asymmetries is of critical importance as breast implants alone will not correct many breast asymmetries. Read More…
For women undergoing breast augmentation surgery, the location as well as the size of the breast implants is of critical importance. While women can participate in the selection of the size of their breast implants, they have little say in where they are positioned on the chest wall. Ideally the plastic surgeon centers the implant Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...