October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer can be treated with lumpectomy or with mastectomy. Breast reconstruction is challenging. When the breast is reconstructed with tissue expanders and implants, there are two options of expander placement. Pre-pectoral (in front of the muscle) and sub pectoral (behind the muscle). Either plane is used today. In some instances, the tissue expander…
It is important for patients to understand that often in the most hostile soft tissue environments there may still be possibilities for breast cancer reconstruction. With adequate interval decolonization of mastectomy pockets, time, appropriate nutrition, appropriate tissue expander or implant size selection, and hyperbaric oxygen we can often improve upon a patients reconstruction. Breast cancer reconstruction is a challenging field…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer and breast cancer reconstruction can be challenging to treat, reconstruct, and manage. There are however, many different options available to patients to reconstruct the breast. The mastectomy operation in itself can significantly devascularize the skin of the chest wall. Placing tissue expanders at the time of mastectomy can often lead to cellulitis…
The deep plane lower face and neck lift is one of the most effective procedures to restore facial volume to the proper location. As we age the facial volume often descends. This can result in laxity of the neck as well as jowls along the mandibular border. The jowls create a more rectangular appearance along the mandible. The region beneath…
