Breast Augmentation
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011There are four degrees of ptosis that exist as standard with the American Board of Plastic Surgery Classification. Grade 1 is at the level of the inframammary fold. Grade 2 is where the nipple is below the inframammary fold between 1 and 2 cm. Grade 3 is severe skin laxity where the nipple areolar complex [...]
Breast Augmentation to Correct Deformity
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011TUBULAR BREAST DEFORMITY BREAST ASYMMETRY – SEVERE The below case is a patient who is 20 years old, presenting with severe tubular breast deformity on the left with severe breast asymmetry and right breast ptosis. To reconstruct this young lady’s breasts in order to create a normal appearance, requires both different volume implants as well [...]
Dow Corning Ruptured Gel Implant
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011DOW CORNING RUPTURED CASE 2 The above patient presents with silicone gel implants placed 34 years ago. These are ruptured silicone gel implants that had been placed over one-third of a century ago. The patient left the implants in and has now noticed increasing pain. An MRI shows intra and extracapsular ruptured silicone implant and [...]
Concomitant Augmentation Mammoplasty Plus Mastopexy
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011Patients often present with loss of upper fullness of their breasts, referred to as involutional upper pole atrophy as well as severe skin laxity or referred to as grade 3 ptosis. These patients do well with implants placed as well as a mastopexy or skin removal and raising of the nipple areolar complex at the [...]
High Profile Implants, Reshaping the Breasts
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011The patient to the left is an excellent example of a patient who has involutional upper pole atrophy, loss of upper pole fullness of her breasts, slight droop of the nipple areolar complex with grade 1 ptosis. This patient is an excellent candidate for high profile saline implants in order to regain upper pole fullness [...]
BREAST LIFT, BREAST AUGMENTATION REVISION
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011The tubular examples show patients who underwent breast augmentation and breast lifting by a different surgeon with unsatisfactory results. Both of these patients had breast lifts that were performed with inadequate amounts of skin removed as well as with implants placed in the malposition. As a result, these patients have required total breast reconstruction requiring [...]
Plastic Surgery Consultations in Las Vegas
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011Dr. Linder was excited to see patients in Las Vegas over the weekend. Patients most often arrive for breast reconstruction and revision surgery. One of the consultations was with a patient specifically with severe scar tissue contracture with the left implant elevated superiorly and hardening with Baker IV capsular contracture and pain. These can easily [...]
HIGH PROFILE SALINE IMPLANTS
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011Great Candidate for Saline Implants The below example is a patient showing with very narrow inframammary fold, minimal cleavage and bilateral breast hypoplasia. Great candidate for saline implants placed under the muscle using high profile saline Allergan implants. Due to the thickness of the muscle, the 500 cc, style 68 high profile Natrelle implants were [...]
Beverly Hills Extreme Makeovers
Friday, September 16th, 2011Interestingly, patients are now presenting for total facial and body makeovers looking for specialists in Beverly Hills to recreate their entire image and appearance, to recreate youthfulness, enhancement and re-sculpt their bodies to perfection. Patients are presenting for cosmetic dentistry with Dr. Kevin Sands, a world recognized leader in cosmetic dentistry, including all forms of [...]
Pseudoptosis Treated By Augmentation Mammoplasty
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Pseudoptosis refers to extra skin from the breast; however, the nipple areolar complex is located above the inframammary fold. There are four types of ptosis, Grade 1, 2, 3 and pseudoptosis. Pseudoptosis can easily be treated with a straight augmentation mammoplasty procedure, saline or silicone implants, without the need for a breast lift. The preop [...]
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