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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 [...]
BREAST SURGERY CONSULTATION
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Beverly Hills Patients present to us in greater numbers for consultation, for breast augmentation, breast revision, breast lift, breast reduction, tummy tuck and lipocontouring. With respect to your breast augmentation or breast revision consultation, it is important that the patient first of all seek a Board Certified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, a Diplomate of the [...]
Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery
Thursday, November 10th, 2011ADVANCES IN MULTI-SPECIALTY AESTHETIC AND PLASTIC SURGERY SYNPOSIUM This weekend, November 4-6, I attended the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Plastic Surgery weekend of conferences. Topics of this year’s conference included Dental Plasty Techniques, Selection of Options in Breast Enhancement and Revision Surgery, Fat Grafting Technique, including Facial, Breasts and Body Contouring, Primary and Secondary Rhinoplasty Surgery, [...]
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 [...]
Plastic Surgery on Entertainment Tonight
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011On November 1, 2011 I was on Entertainment Tonight to discuss a patient regarding Tummy Tuck Revision. I always appreciate the opportunity to consult for ET CBS television. I will expand on this patient and procedure in an upcoming blog.
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 [...]
Abdominoplasties with Concurrent Hernia Repairs
Thursday, October 27th, 2011Recently, the patient presented with a very large periumbilical lower abdominal epigastric hernia combined with significant amounts of abdominal skin laxity. This patient will require both a concurrent epigastric umbilical hernia repair with our general surgeon at the same time as the elective panniculectomy/abdominoplasty. Patients who present with hernias should be seen by general surgeons [...]
Micro Liposulpture of Beverly Hills
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011Patients who present for revision liposculpture may require the use of very small cannulas. The example below is a patient who underwent four liposuctions in Toronto, Canada as well as in Britain. Unfortunately, she was left with some contour deformity of the periumbilical abdominal area which will be very difficult to correct without the use [...]
Status Post Gastric Bypass Breast Reconstruction Revision
Monday, October 24th, 2011This patient underwent a gastric bypass procedure using the Roux-en-Y Gastroplasty at over a 130-pound weight loss. She subsequently underwent augmentation mammoplasty procedure and a breast lift formal mastopexy by a different surgeon for severe involutional upper pole atrophy, and severe grade 3 ptosis. Her preoperative photos indicate unfortunate complete malposition of the implants. There is [...]
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