Archive for July, 2009
BREAST REVISION SURGERY, BEVERLY HILLS
Monday, July 27th, 2009Recently, we’ve seen an increased number of breast revision surgical patients here in Beverly Hills. These patients present with a multitude of problems, including severe encapsulation with Baker IV capsular contractures, double-bubble breast deformities, malpositioning of the implants, ruptured silicone and saline implants with painful breast deformities and a multitude of other problems. These patients [...]
AGE AND BREAST SURGERY, BEVERY HILLS/LAS VEGAS
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009In general, we see patients of all ages who are considering breast augmentation, breast reduction and breast reconstructive surgeries. The age of the patient is very important. Obviously, up to a certain age, physiological growth continues to occur. Generally, the age of 18 is usually, in my opinion, considered the cutoff for elective augmentation mammoplasty [...]
BREAST IMPLANT INFECTION
Monday, July 20th, 2009BREAST IMPLANT INFECTION, STATUS POST DENTAL WORK
WHAT TO DO NEXT
A case was presented to me a couple of days ago as an acute emergency. Description of the case includes a patient who underwent silicone gel augmentation approximately 20 years ago in the submuscular pocket. She had dental work approximately three months ago and has had [...]
Beverly Hills Breast Revision Cleavage
Monday, July 13th, 2009Patients present to Dr. Linder for both augmentation and breast revision surgery weekly. We enjoy the reconstruction and challenge of repairing breasts that were done elsewhere. Over time, scar tissue can form around breast implants. This can be associated with breast feeding or simply capsular contracture which occurs due to the body’s [...]
BEVERLY HILLS BREAST AUGMENTATION
Thursday, July 9th, 2009In Beverly Hills we perform breast augmentations weekly. Breast augmentations can be performed using silicone as well as saline implants. Silicone implants are now FDA-approved and there are two FDA-approved companies, Mentor and Allergan Pharmaceuticals. Both implants are excellent. Both implants come in moderate, moderate plus and high profile, both in silicone and saline implants. [...]