As I continue to learn about both aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery, I find that the same tools, skill sets, and planning that I use for aesthetic breast procedures apply to reconstructive breast surgery and vice versa. Frequently, I see women in consultation who have undergone first a breast augmentation, second a breast reduction, and often present desiring further reduction…
Today was truly a great day of cases. As the breast augmentation, revision breast augmentation, and capsular contracture surgery practice grows, I continually look for ways to improve patient outcomes, reduce patient recovery time, reduce incision length, and prevent capsular contracture I have found that the Keller Funnel facilitates delivery of silicone gel implants through smaller incisions and allows me to…
I am seeing more and more women in consultation in my office with deflation of their saline breast implants. In fact, twice this month we had women who presented with the development of pain around their breast implant with an associated distortion of the breast shape secondary to breast implant valve failure. It has been my experience that the development…
I have found an increasing number of women who present to my office in consultation who had saline breast implants placed ten years ago and who are now requesting removal and replacement of their mammary implants for highly cohesive silicone gel mammary prosthesis. Often these women underwent reduction mammoplasty with an implant to maintain upper pole fullness, but now want…
