Category: breast augmentation | breast implants | breast lift | mommy makeover | tummy tuck

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: 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…

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…

Case Study: Correction of Sagging Breasts with Combined Lifts and Implants

Background: The combination of pregnancies, weight loss and gravity change most every woman’s breasts.All of these undesired changes are classic, the breasts change shape and they sag downward. The combination of more skin and less volume allows the breasts to lose their once uplifted and rounder appearance. Some women undergo involution only (breast tissue Read More…

Case Study: Reduction of Large Areolas

Background: The nipple-areolar complex has both a significant functional and aesthetic contribution to the breast mound. Ideally the nipple-areolar complex should sit in the center of the breast mound and has a reasonable size that is not too big or too small. The concept of reasonable nipple-areolar size is a relative one and each Read More…

Avoiding The Need For A Lift In Breast Augmentation

The placement of a breast implant is often viewed as being either under the pectoralis muscle or above it. When it comes to being above the muscle in the so-called subglandular position it can only be completely in that position. But when it comes to the submuscular position, a partial or complete placement relative to Read More…

Common Myths of Breast Lift Surgery

Lifting of the sagging breast is one of the most challenging of all body contouring procedures. While measurements and angles are marked out for a breast lift, there is real artistry in choosing the design of the operation and executing it so that optimal symmetry exists between the breasts. Since every woman’s breasts are Read More…

The Risk of Reoperation in Combined Breast Implant and Lift Surgery

Of the many women who present for consideration for a breast lift, the vast majority do not end up with a breast lift alone. While the various forms of breast lifting do successfully move the nipple position higher and tighten breast skin around it, it does not increase the size of the breast or Read More…

The Sister Concept in Cosmetic Breast Surgery

Cosmetic breast surgery encompasses a wide array of procedures from the placement of implants, lifts, reductions, liposuction and fat grafting. This is not to mention another list of potential changes that can be done to the nipple-areolar complex with or without concomitant mound reshaping. But what makes breast reshaping surgery a very unique collection Read More…