Bilateral mastectomy is often reconstructed with tissue expanders and breast implants. The tissue expander is inserted at the time of the mastectomy and the skin is allowed to heal and more oncologic information is gathered. Once the mastectomy skin has healed, saline is placed in the tissue expander to gradually expand the skin. The expanded skin is allowed to settle…
Breast augmentation is a procedure with a high patient satisfaction rate. There are two different implant options for breast augmentation. Patients can either select from silicone or saline mammary prosthesis. Patients can have saline breast reconstruction with excellent results.
Breast augmentation is one of the more common aesthetic procedures performed and patients tend to be very happy with the procedure. The most common implants selected tend to be silicone gel implants. Silicone gel implants tend to be associated with less rippling and tend to be lighter. The recovery for breast augmentation is typically about 4 weeks before patients can…
Facelift surgery is one of my favorite surgeries to perform. In general the lower face and neck-lift operation is a procedure performed under general anesthesia to relax the muscles of the neck that are to be tightened. After the surgery the patient will stay overnight one night in the surgery center to adequately control blood pressure, pain, and nausea. There…
