Blepharoplasty procedures are common procedures as patients tend to age. An upper blepharoplasty procedure involves removing the excess skin and fat from the upper eyelid compartments and then closing the skin at the location of the upper eyelid crease. Occasionally, as people age, the muscle that raises the eyelid, the levator muscle, becomes weak or attenuated “stretched out”. This “stretching…
Blepharoplasty is a common procedure to rejuvenate the upper eyelids. As we age, the skin on the upper eyelids accumulates and becomes lax. There is also the accumulation of fat behind the upper eyelids. A blepharoplasty procedure involves the removal of skin and fat from the upper eyelids. Typically, the incision is placed in the eyelid skin and the excess…
Breast augmentation revision is a common procedure. Patients often wish to increase the size of their mammary prosthesis. Patients may want to exchange their implants for a variety of reasons. Some of the more common reasons for changing implant size is to change the size, change from saline to silicone, or silicone to saline, and a size change is accomplished…
Reconstruction following lumpectomy can be challenging and even more so in the setting of radiation therapy. Radiation and implant reconstructions can often cause capsular contracture. When one mammary prosthesis has capsular contracture and the other does not, obtaining symmetry can be quite challenging. In patients who have repeated capsular contracture, it is often best to remove the mammary prosthesis and…
