Breast Implants
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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 [...]
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 [...]
DOW CORNING RUPTURED IMPLANTS
Friday, October 14th, 2011We see patients who present with implants from the Dow Corning era. Those are implants placed well over 20 to 35 years ago. These implants are obviously no longer allowed on the market. The company is no longer producing these implants. The Dow Corning implants were smooth shelled implants that had a Dacron patch on [...]
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 [...]
Double Bubble Breast Deformity
Friday, August 26th, 2011BECKER IMPLANTS Below is a case example of a severe double-bubble breast deformity in which the patient presented status post augmentation mammoplasty procedure 26 years ago through a transaxillary approach which she thought were saline implants. Intraoperatively, the patient was found to have Becker double lumen silicone gel, internal lumen and saline external lumen implants. [...]
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 [...]
Breast Augmentation Cost in Beverly Hills
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 [...]
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