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Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Rise in Mommy Makeover Surgery

The rise in plastic surgery affects all age and both sexes. One of these ‘groups’ that seek body-altering surgery is women, specifically mommies. Looking to reverse the effects of pregnancy on their bodies, they seek breast enhancements and tummy tucks. When put together in a combined procedure, it has become known as a Mommy Makeover. Read More…

The Z-Plasty Breast Lift

The sagging breast is the most formidable challenge in aesthetic plastic surgery of the breast. Not only because the scars needed for breast lifting create new aesthetic concerns but the sustainability of the lifted breast is not assured. While many women want their breast lifted, they are often understandably averse to the scars. But real Read More…

The Emerging Popularity of the Mommy Makeover

The concept of a Mommy Makeover has become a very popular plastic surgery procedure in the past decade. While sounding like a novel procedure, it is really nothing more than combining traditional breast and abdominal reshaping procedures in a single one-time operation. When put together they change the two body parts most affected by pregnancy Read More…

Case Study: The Challenges of Combining Implants with Breast Lifts

Background: A woman’s breast is not a stable structure over her lifetime. It is exposed to many changes from its initial development throughout puberty to an older woman. Undoubtably the greatest changer of breast shape is pregnancy, causing gradual expansion and then a relatively rapid deflation. With this overall yoyo of breast shape comes loss Read More…

The Evolution of the Mommy Makeover in Plastic Surgery

Pregnancy has an effect on the female’s body that is unriveled in men. Stretching of the abdominal muscles and skin and enlargement of the breasts followed by an overall deflation with delivery usually causes irreversible tissue changes. Many of these tissues pass the elastic deformation stage from which there is no snapback or return to Read More…

The Complexities of Combining Breast Implants and Lifts in the Sagging Breast

The sagging breast poses one of the most difficult problems in cosmetic plastic surgery. While many patients assume that the simple placement of a breast implant will create the effect of a breast lift while making it bigger, this perception is usually wrong. This may work for the smallest amount of breast sagging. But for Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Conical Geometry of Breast Reduction/Lift Surgery

Breast reduction and advanced breast lift surgery uses basic geometry to surgically reshape the breast mound. Much like making a cone out of a flat piece of paper, it requires a modified wedge-shaped removal of skin from the lower half of the breast. After this skin is removed, the remaining breast skin is brought together Read More…

Case Study: Breast Augmentation with Lollipop Lifts

Background: Breast augmentation remains one of the most commonly performed body contouring operations because it can successfully increase the size of a breast mound in a very short period of time. While the underlying implant makes the breast bigger, the final appearance of the breast is influenced by more than just the size and shape Read More…

The Effects of Breast Lifts and Reductions on Upper Pole Fullness

Lifting and reduction techniques are common methods of cosmetic breast reshaping. Whether it is to lift up a smaller sagging breast or to reduce a large and pendulous breast, pushing up breast tissue and encasing it in a smaller and tight skin envelope is the basic approach. It would seem logical that by so Read More…

The Challenges of Combination Breast Implants and Lifts

When women are seen in consultation for breast augmentation, they are understandably enthusiastic about how the operation will change the appearance of their chest. Some will be surprised to learn, however, that they will need a breast lift with an implant to achieve the best result. Breast implants are perceived by some to have Read More…