Below is the extremely interesting case of a patient who is now four weeks postoperative for augmentation mammoplasty as well as abdominal contouring as well as thigh liposculpture at six months of age undergoing radiation therapy for neuroblastoma of the gastric or stomach region.  The patient on preoperative photograph has loss of fatty tissue and some muscle development along the left lateral wall.  The umbilicus is shifted to the left.  She was very disturbed in her clothes through the years of the extra fat along the iliac crest roll or hip lower flank area as well as the periumbilical lower abdomen and epigastric area which rolled up upon her pants.  She also is very unhappy with the gynoid appearance of her lower third showing severe lipodystrophy of both the inner and outer thigh in a pear-like figure.  The patient underwent abdominal CT scan showing no fascial defects or hernias on the abdominal wall along the right side of the umbilicus and therefore she was safe to undergo tumescent liposuction of the epigastric right area and the hip as well as of course to sculp the thighs. 

The patient underwent augmentation mammoplasty procedure with a 210 cc saline implant through the subpectoral periareolar approach as well as tumescent liposuction removing over 1.2 liters of fat of the periumbilical, right hip, lower flank and contouring of the inner and outer thighs. 

The patient is ecstatic with her results.  Most importantly, when she wears her clothes and pants, the fat no longer rolls up above the jean line.  She underwent the Linder Bi-directional Flank Liposuction Technique, both in the vertical and oblique plane on the right hip and smoothed out the lower epigastric area.  The thighs are beautifully contoured and she cannot be happier.

This is an extremely interesting case as a young six-month old with a very rare tumor of a stomach.  She had undergone cobalt and radiation therapy which caused necrosis and complete atrophy of the left abdominal wall.  It is always a challenge, but it is very pleasing to be able to help patients not only with cosmetic appearance, but certainly the functional impairments that they have throughout their everyday lives.

1. Must be a Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery.  In other words, is Board Certified with the American Board of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
2. Should be a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.  This is the most prestigious society in the world for Board Certified Plastic Surgeons.
3. Should be a member of the Fellow of American College of Surgeons or FACS.  FACS doctors are those who are Board Certified in their specific surgical fields.
4. Specialist.  Dr. Linder is a specialist in body sculpting procedures, including breast augmentation, breast lift, breast revision, breast reduction, abdominoplasty and total body liposculpture.
5. Experience and judgment.  This can only come with years and years of experience, having done thousands of the specific procedure that you desire to undertake.  It is imperative that the patient be able to look at hundreds, if not thousands, of photographs of before and after pictures.  This will allow the patient to see great variations of this specific surgical procedure.  For example, on breast augmentation patients we have moderate, moderate plus and high profile implants, both saline and silicone.  Patients should have the ability to see the different implants within the body and different sizes of women in order to help them determine which profile implant they desire. 
As money and finances are tighter than ever, it is important that the patient do her homework in order to fine the most qualified Board Certified Plastic Surgeon when undergoing cosmetic surgery of the breast or body, in order to allow for the highest probability of a successful outcome.

Recently having taken a trip through the Mediterranean from Athens through Mykonos, Greece, Corfu, Greece, into Turkey and ending in Venice, Italy.  It is obvious that beauty can be found worldwide and is ageless, starting at the Acropolis or the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.  The ageless beauty of this monumental structure, although deteriorating, is unrelenting.  It is beautiful and withstanding of all time. 

In Mykonos, Greece, the two Islands of Aphrodite’s representing Aphrodite’s two breasts, shows symmetry and elegance.  The clear blue waters of the Greek Isle combined with the beauty of the land and people are amazing.  The silk used from the cocoons to create the beautiful Obeson rugs is brilliant in Kusadasi, Turkey.  The central markets show endless spices with the color is quite brilliant.  The variety of fish throughout the market shows the variation of diets that the people of Turkey maintain.  Going back to the Obeson rugs, some of the silk rugs will take up to eight years to make by a single family performing every stitch by hand.  The silk is produced from the cocoons of the butterfly, which is then placed on a special machine and then given to the laborer after dyed in specific colors to create beautiful silk rugs, masterpieces that is. 

Finally, the City of Venice, Italy presents with the beauty of St. Marks Square, people abound, the Gondolas flow through the canals with brilliant light reflecting off the waters.  Beauty can be found in many ways and in many different forms.  From the creation and recreation of the female body to a beautiful Obeson rug, to beautiful mountain ranges, to the people of the Mediterranean, who are glorious in all their splender.

Indications for use of The Dr. Linder Bra include: 1) as a sleeping beauty bra for women, with or without breast implants, to maintain the shape of their breasts throughout the evening so as to not have continued or recurrent skin laxity and loss of firmness to the breast; 2) as a training bra that can be used for the aerobic and anaerobic workouts to maintain the shape of their breasts during vigorous athletic activities as well as during Pilates; 3) as a pregnancy bra, due to the patented adjustable straps on the side of the chest wall, they can be adjusted to three different sizes and can be used for women in their 9-months pregnancy period as well as post-pregnancy during breast feeding; and 4) can be used post-surgically for breast cancer as well as elective cosmetic breast surgical procedures, including breast reduction, breast augmentation, mastectomy as well as breast cancer reconstructive patients. 

This Bra is not a surgical bra per se, but rather 24/7 hour bra that again can be used for training, sleep bra and beauty bra to maintain women’s breasts, every day bra to be used throughout the world, as well as for pregnant women whose breasts will enlarge over nine months and finally for post-surgical patients. 

The Linder product line will include The Linder Sport, which is the Linder Bra without the zipper in the front as well as The Linder Band, which will be useful for the abdominal area to reduce the abdominal midriff area up to two inches.  The Linder Bra manufacturers with the highest quality of approximately 95% cotton and 5% Spandex as bi-directional stretch, which thereby means has compression which will also allow women to perspire without development of consistent sweat within the bra.  It has excellent evaporative properties and will also have the adjustable straps on the sides with the Ford Steel Clip System which can be adjusted in three different sizes along the chest wall diameter.  This is a very unique bra.  It has been trademarked and is patent-pending at this time.  Manufacturing is occurring and should be completed in the next couple of months. 

Look forward to the informercial as well as selling of the products in multiple stores as well as training stores, sporting good stores and pregnancy stores for women.  We are very excited about The Dr. Linder Bra which will be very useful for women throughout the world for all their maintenance as well as training and post-surgical pregnancy needs.

This website has also been dedicated for international travelers, coming from Europe, the Middle East, Russia, the Caribbean and Asia, as both Dr. Linder and Kotler have international clients.  These surgeons also work concurrently on patients during the same operation.  For example, Dr. Kotler may do a full face lift or rhinoplasty while Dr. Linder performs the augmentation mammoplasty, tummy tuck or lipo contouring under the same general anesthetic.

Dr. Linder is proud to be an advocate as well as a specialist for Kelo-cote on their recent infomercial now playing throughout the United States.  Because a disproportionately large part of Dr. Linder’s practice is body sculpting women, scarring is an inevitable concern, especially with the multitude of breast lifts and abdominoplasty surgeries. 

Having used Kelo-cote for over two years, Dr. Linder has found it to be extremely helpful when used after sutures are removed, twice a day, for at least three months.  Bio corneum is a new product with the Kelo-cote component as well as the SPF to reduce problems associated with the UV light.  Bio corneum is used for management and preventing keloids and hypertrophic scarring.  It is excellent for patients who have had surgical scarring and desires to have less redness, smoothing, flattening and less visibility of scars. 

The benefits of Bio corneum include:  it’s 100% silicone scar treatment with SPF30.  It dries within 45 minutes.  It flattens and softens scars, reducing redness and discoloration.  It also relieves itchiness and discomfort.  The SPF30 of the Bio corneum reduces sun-induced redness discoloration.  Bio corneum and Kelo-cote are excellent products for scarring.  Dr. Linder uses them every day on his patients who have postsurgical scars associated with augmentation, breast revision, breast lift and abdominoplasty procedures.

In this month’s issue of “Pasadena Magazine,” page 27, is an interesting and informative story written by Cliff Dorfman.  He describes specialists in plastic surgery.  The article is specific to Dr. Linder and Dr. Robert Kotler, both specialists in plastic surgery of different parts of the body.  Dr. Stuart Linder is a body sculptist, who only operates below the neck and Dr. Robert Kotler is a specialist in facial plastic surgery operating only from the neck upward.  He goes into great detail, describing reasons why specialists in plastic surgery are an interesting increasing trend and the reasons that this may increase successful results in that doctors who perform the same surgery day after day, month after month, year after year, would develop great experience in judgment with the same operations, understanding the unusual pitfalls of the procedures as well as the anatomical variations.  This may allow for improved and more predictable results. 

As always, I am appreciative and humble whenever magazines come to me asking to do stories on specific issues on body sculpting in plastic surgery.

The building of this site is now complete and breastimplantlasvegas.com  is now online, can be found at the bottom of drlinder.com or on Goggle itself.  This site was built to educate women worldwide on all the different aspects of breast augmentation surgery. 

We are excited that this site specifically yields information that women will desire when considering primary or secondary augmentation mammoplasty procedure.  Subcategories do include “Augmentation Mammoplasty using Silicone Gel versus Saline Implants, Breast Deformities, including asymmetry, tubular breast, breast hypertrophy, pectus excavatum, and pectus carinatum, are described as well as augmentation with concomitant breast lifting, implant positioning, shapes, profiles, as well as reconstruction and revision.  This site is an excellent compliment to breastrevisionsurgeon.com and lasvegasbreastrevision.com .

Finally, breast health and Natrelle’s implant warranty information is given to patients for future reference.  We hope you find this site to be extremely educational and informative when considering primary augmentation mammoplasty procedure or revision of your past breast surgery.

Dr. Linder describes a technique that he uses which includes bi-directional liposuctioning and a vertical and oblique plane in the iliac crest roll/hip areas.  He has found this approach using 3 mm small cannulas under tumescent technique, under general anesthesia, suctioning in two levels of Camper’s and Scarpa’s fascia with a 4 mm cannula in the deeper Scarpa’s fascia both in an oblique and vertical manner and then with a smaller 3 mm cannula in the superficial fat layer as well in a vertical and oblique bi-directional pattern.  This has reduced that muffin top above the jean line and allowed women to have a more elegant, softer contour of the lower flank hip region and less bulkiness above the jeans and the jean riding area.  This will be showcased on Entertainment Tonight/CBS at 7:00 p.m. on May 13, 2010.  Dr. Linder is proud to work with Entertainment Tonight as a correspondent on issues and techniques in body sculpting procedures for women.