Breast reduction surgery is a common surgery that has a high satisfaction rate. There are many reasons that a patient would seek out breast reduction surgery. The most common reasons are the weight of the breasts on the neck and back causing pain, difficulty engaging in sports activities, skin maceration in the breast creases, and wishing to lose weight. The…
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The lower face and neck lift is a common procedure to improve the appearance of the face and neck after aging. Signs of aging can appear on the face from gain and loss of weight, exposure to sun, stress, genetics, and a whole host of other causes. The face and neck appears aged when there is excess skin, excess fat,…
Breast cancer can be treated with mastectomy. Often when a woman has breast cancer, she would like to proceed with a bilateral mastectomy, which is the removal of both breasts. Bilateral mastectomy can be done if cancer is in both breasts, or, if the patient would like to remove the other breast prophylactically. In a patient with ptotic breast, it…
There are many ways to reconstruct the breast following mastectomy. One way to reconstruct the breast which lasts the lifetime of the patient is the deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap. In DIEP flap breast reconstruction, the skin and fat from the abdomen is harvested along with the deep inferior epigastric artery and vein and transferred to the chest…
Patients are getting more in shape these days. Whether it is with diet and exercise, weight loss surgery, or medications such as Ozempic and Wygovy. After weight loss patients have excess skin that can be bothersome or can serve as a reminder of their previous health state. Patients can undergo surgery to remove the excess skin that accumulates on the…
