Archive for January, 2009
Ruptured Breast Implants
Friday, January 30th, 2009Patients present to us in Beverly Hills / Hollywood for ruptured breast implants every week. Ruptured implants can occur for many reasons. They can occur due to trauma, blunt trauma, such as a seatbelt whiplash accident or even being assaulted. It can also occur simply due to wear and tear of an [...]
Dr. Linder Featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Dr. Linder Contributing Author, Writer for Cosmopolitan Magazine
February 2009
If you pick up next month’s issue of Cosmopolitan, now available in book stands and book stores throughout the country, you’ll find a very interesting article on 25 wacky questions about plastic surgery. Both Dr. Stuart Linder and Dr. Robert Kotler were given the opportunity to help [...]
Inverted Nipples, Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery
Monday, January 19th, 2009Inverted nipples are not an infrequent problem that we see in our Beverly Hills practice. Patients can present with a variety of different degrees of inversion of the nipples.
Usually, the nipples have suspensory ligaments that help to maintain them in an outward position. If these ligaments are short, the nipples may invert and it may [...]
Breast Augmentation Above versus Below the Muscle
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Breast implants can be placed either above or below the muscle or placed within the dual plane, which means two-thirds under and the lateral one-third over.
At my Beverly Hills breast augmentation practice, we prefer to place the implants behind the muscle whenever possible because it helps to reduce scar tissue, capsular contracture as well as [...]