Breast Augmentation
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011Breast augmentation costs will vary from region to region throughout the United States. In general; however, with the economy being in the state that it is, certainly augmentation mammoplasty, both with silicone as well as saline implants, has reduced significantly in the last 48 months. The straight breast enhancement surgery with saline implants is significant [...]
SILICONE GEL IMPLANTS AND RIPPLING
Thursday, August 11th, 2011There is a fallacy in the community that silicone gel implants do not ripple. This is completely untrue. All implants, saline and silicone, can ripple. In fact, silicone textured implants can ripple more than smooth saline implants. Patients who have thin tissue, are ectomorphic, have minimal amounts of breast tissue and/or muscle, are at high [...]
Beverly Hills Trans-Umbilical Augmentation
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011PROS AND CONS (TRANS-UMBILICAL AUGMENTATION) In my practice, having performed thousands and thousands of breast enhancement surgeries, I found that safety and predictability are of utmost importance in achieving excellent results in breast augmentation surgery. I have seen countless numbers of patients who have undergone the trans-umbilical augmentation mammoplasty procedure, many with unsatisfactory results. My [...]
Natural Looking Breast Implant
Friday, April 22nd, 2011ALLERGAN, STYLE 15, PROS AND CONS Style 15, Allergan/Natrelle silicone gel implant, is a very natural breast implant. It is a moderate plus profile silicone gel, not too narrow and not too wide. Advantages include a very natural appearance. Please see photograph to the left of a 371 moderate plus silicone gel Allergan implant placed in a [...]
New York Times Cosmetic Surgery Statistics Review
Friday, April 8th, 2011In the March 30, 2011 New York times, an article which discusses a decade of boosting breast size, had very interesting statistics, notably, the breast augmentations performed in comparison to facial plastic surgery procedures. In summary, breast augmentation procedures continue to remain stable or are on the increase, while facial plastic surgery trends have shown [...]
Creating a Slight Breast Enhancement
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011NOTICABLE BEAUTY Conservative patients do present to me for breast augmentation. They are most concerned about maintaining a natural appearance with a subtle change in breast size in order to simply fill out their bra; however, not become disproportionately large. For this subset of patients, I have found using small style 15 moderate plus Allergen [...]
Natural Breast Augmentation Surgery
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011BEVERLY HILLS, CA – In order for our patients to obtain the most natural appearance on their augmentation mammoplasty procedure and still obtain upper pole fullness, in general, I like to place high profile saline, moderate plus profile saline or silicone gel implants under the subpectoral dual plane technique. Placing implants with medical two-third muscle [...]
Reducing Rippling of the Breast
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011REDUCING RIPPLING – MEDIAL VISIBILITY Patients present to me who either have had multiple breast augmentation or breast revision surgeries and/or ectomorphic with minimal amounts of breast tissue to start. They may encounter visibility or rippling of the implant along the medial breast edge. This can occur even on a primary augmentation on very thin [...]
Breast Implant Placements
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011Placement of Breast Implants Saline or silicone implants may be placed in one or two planes, either the subglandular retromammary or the dual plane technique or subpectoral two-thirds under the muscle, one-third over. The majority of our patients with primary augmentation we prefer the dual plane technique, placing the implant behind the muscle along the [...]
Extra High Profile Breast Implants
Sunday, February 27th, 2011STYLE 45 Silicone Implants Extra high profile text style 45 Allergan silicone implants. The extra high profile, Style 45 Allergen silicone implants are the fullest and roundest implants available on the market today. These implants are quite narrow based, but have the greatest AP projection for a silicone implant. These implants may reduce visibility and [...]
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