Breast augmentation also known as augmentation mammoplasty is a surgical procedure to increase breast size. During breast augmentation, breast implants are placed under the breast tissue or chest muscles.
For some women, breast augmentation is a way to enhance self-image and self-confidence. For others, breast augmentation is part of breast reconstruction after surgery for breast cancer or other conditions affecting the breast.
If you’re considering breast augmentation, consult a plastic surgeon. Make sure you understand what surgery involves, including possible risks, complications and follow-up care.
Why it’s done
A woman’s reasons for choosing breast augmentation are highly personal.
Breast augmentation might help you:
Enhance your breast […]
IN this anti-aging age, perhaps it’s unsurprising that vampires ancient, but with forever-young skin are a cultural obsession. Now a cosmetic treatment to fill in wrinkles or to plump up hollow cheeks is being marketed as a “vampire filler” or a “vampire face-lift.”
In fact, it’s not surgery, but an in-office procedure that entails having blood drawn from your arm, then spun in a centrifuge to separate out the platelets. They are then injected into your face, with the hope of stimulating new collagen production. Selphyl, as the system is called, arrived on the booming facial-rejuvenation market in 2009, and is […]
Abdominoplasty or a tummy tuck, as it is more commonly known is a cosmetic surgery procedure that tightens the muscles and removes loose skin and fat from the abdomen so that it appears flat and toned.
Mostly associated with “mommy makeovers,” a procedure that allows women to restore their figures after pregnancy, abdominoplasty is also used to help patients that have undergone extreme weight loss in a short period of time.
Between 2000 and 2014, the number of tummy tuck procedures rose an impressive 87 percent, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Many procedures were, no doubt, for cosmetic reasons, […]
After decades of wanting bigger, rounder breasts, women are increasingly choosing altitude over amplitude. And modern science has a new array of breast-lift techniques to give them exactly that.
In the popular conception of breast surgery, women who seek out the operating room are generally there for the breasts they never had. Whether you always wanted the top half of your hourglass to be bigger or smaller, there was a surgical option for you. Now another group of women is growing rapidly. In the past 16 years, the number of patients opting for breast lifts has risen almost 600 percent, according […]
Nothing can stop the aging process. But for those with the money and motivation, cosmetic surgery can reverse at least some of the ravages of time. A lot of people are willing to pay a high price for a more youthful appearance. More than 150,000 people in the United States had a facelift in 2004, according to The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery [ref].
In this article, we’ll see how plastic surgeons are offering up the promise of youth in the form of facelift surgery. We’ll learn how the procedure is performed, how dramatic the results can be, and what […]
The Promise
Take a “natural” hormone the body makes during pregnancy — and lose a lot of weight? That’s the promise that’s turned the hCG Diet — named after that hormone — into a craze that just won’t quit. If you also go on an ultra-low-calorie diet, backers claim, hCG can “reset your metabolism” so you lose as much as a pound a day without feeling hungry or weak.
Here’s what the science says: Any super-low-cal diet will result in weight loss. Most studies have found that hCG (stands for human chorionic gonadotropin) has nothing to do with it.
The hCG diet limits […]
A recent study out of Belgium presents what the authors call “a novel approach” to large-volume gluteal augmentation.
Working on the basis that a simple, reproducible surgical technique for gluteal shaping and augmentation with autologous fat is needed, the authors plastic surgeons from the Centre HospitalierUniversitaire de Tivoli, Brussels describe a technique that combines power-assisted liposculpting and fat harvesting around the buttock with autologous fat transfer.
“To our knowledge, this is the first report to describe the use of power-assisted technology for gluteal augmentation and sculpting by combined liposuction of the areas around the buttock and large-volume fat transfer to the buttock […]
Background
Breast augmentation is usually performed to enhance the size and shape of a woman’s breasts. Surgery can often improve an individual’s self-image. Historically, breast enlargement was accomplished by 1 of 4 methods, with varying degrees of success.
Inert materials such as silicone or paraffin have been injected directly into the parenchymal tissue to increase breast size. This method was abandoned because of the exceedingly high incidence of acute and long-term complications. Granuloma formation frequently occurs with this procedure, as well as skin loss and scar contracture, producing disfigurement.
Autogenous tissue injections also have been used in an attempt to enhance and enlarge […]
To treat excess fat, reduction via liposuction is a no-brainer. But how do newer technology-based solutions fit in? The jury is still out according to several industry experts. In the March issue of Cosmetic Surgery Times (CST), Dr. Jane Petro, a Boston-based plastic surgeon points out that “there is relatively little evidence-based medicine regarding the varying liposuction devices used in cosmetic surgery today particularly regarding the claimed advantages of one technology over the other.” Her recommendation to the industry at-large? To fill the void with comparative studies that work towards generating the evidence today’s cosmetic surgeons need to select the […]
(Abdominoplasty)
Are sit-ups just not giving you the taut tummy you desire? If you’ve got a little too much flab or excess skin in your abdomen that won’t diminish with diet or exercise, you may want to consider an abdominoplasty, popularly referred to as a “tummy tuck.”
This procedure flattens your abdomen by removing extra fat and skin, and tightening muscles in your abdominal wall.
However, this is a major surgery. So if you’re considering it, take the time to educate yourself, thoroughly analyze your own situation and do not rush to make the final decision.
A tummy tuck should be the last resort […]