What Types of Breast Implants Are Available? Jun 14, 2012 in Breast Implants There are many different types of breast implants, with different fill materials, surface types, and shapes. Breast implantsmay be filled with either saline liquid (salt water) or silicone gel. Both have been approved for use in the US as being safe and effective, and the differences are largely a matter of patient preference. Saline breast implants are less expensive and more flexible surgically–being inserted via… Read More Where Will My Breast Implants Be Placed? Jun 11, 2012 in Breast Implants Breast implants can be placed either directly below the breast tissue (technically called subglandular placement) or they can be placed under some of the muscles in the chest (called submuscular placement). Submuscular breast implant placement has several advantages. Because there is more tissue to cover the breast implant, it is less likely to be visible, which is especially important for saline breast implants, which are… Read More How to Choose Breast Implant Size Jun 7, 2012 in Breast Implants Only you can determine your ideal breast size. Once you have decided on your desired breast size, we can easily determine the right breast implant size to achieve that result. A good place to start is with pictures of you at a time you were happy with the size of your breasts. Perhaps you were pregnant or had gained weight, causing your breasts to swell,… Read More Sagging and Breast Implants May 31, 2012 in Breast Implants Breast implants can be used to reliably achieve many cosmetic improvements of the breasts. However, breast sagging may or may not be correctable using breast implants. If your breasts are sagging as a result of lost volume that causes you to have slack, empty breasts, then breast implants can be used to restore that volume. Sometimes, too, breasts can look saggy because of their shape…. Read More What Is Involved in Breast Augmentation Surgery? May 31, 2012 in Breast Augmentation Philadelphia plastic surgeon Dr. David A. Bottger recommends performing breast augmentation under general anesthesia. Once you have been placed under anesthesia, an incision is made in the location you discussed with Dr. Bottger during your consultation. Dr. Bottger uses three different breast augmentation incision locations: the inframammary (in the breast crease), the periareolar (at the edge of the nipple-areola complex), or the axillary (in the armpit). The incision… Read More Who Is a Candidate for Breast Augmentation? May 31, 2012 in Breast Augmentation If you are considering breast augmentation, one of the most important questions you might ask is “Am I a candidate?” here is some basic information about the ideal candidates for breast augmentation using breast implants. First, the best candidates have cosmetic goals that can be achieved using breast implants. This can be to increase the size of breasts or restore lost volume in the breasts. Breast… Read More Study Looks at Shape Results for Round, Anatomic Breast implants May 21, 2012 in Breast Implants In recent months, plastic surgery has turned its attention to the effort to create more objective standards for breast augmentation results. One earlier effort established “standards” for the shape of the ideal breast. A more recent effort looks at the impact of the type of breast implant on breast shape after breast augmentation. The study looked at relatively small sample sizes of women receiving round breast implants and anatomic… Read More Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Breast Reduction Nightmare May 8, 2012 in Breast Reduction, Plastic Surgery Last week, buxom actress Jennifer Love Hewitt revealed a nightmare she had about losing her breasts. She said she was trying to work when someone put tubes in her breasts and began making them smaller. She cried out “Guys, don’t take them away!” Hewitt has suffered significant manipulation of her breasts in the public advertising campaign for her new series The Client List. The racy… Read More Tissue Expansion before Breast Augmentation with Fat Grafting Apr 30, 2012 in Breast Augmentation Tissue expansion with an external expander can increase the survival rate and therefore predictability of breast augmentation with fat grafting, according to a study published in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Fat grafting seems for many women to be a valuable alternative to using breast implants for breast augmentation, but the technique is… Read More Are Gummy Bear Breast Implants Better? Part 1: Safety Apr 23, 2012 in Breast Implants Last month we had the long-awaited approval of gummy bear breast implants. Believed imminent since at least 2007, the FDA surprised many people by taking so long to approve the implants, then surprised others by approving them so suddenly. “Gummy bear” breast implants, more properly known as form-stable silicone breast implants, received their nickname because of their firm but yielding texture. Think of fresh gummy… Read More ← Previous 1 … 23 24 25 26 27 … 31 Next →
What Types of Breast Implants Are Available? Jun 14, 2012 in Breast Implants There are many different types of breast implants, with different fill materials, surface types, and shapes. Breast implantsmay be filled with either saline liquid (salt water) or silicone gel. Both have been approved for use in the US as being safe and effective, and the differences are largely a matter of patient preference. Saline breast implants are less expensive and more flexible surgically–being inserted via… Read More
Where Will My Breast Implants Be Placed? Jun 11, 2012 in Breast Implants Breast implants can be placed either directly below the breast tissue (technically called subglandular placement) or they can be placed under some of the muscles in the chest (called submuscular placement). Submuscular breast implant placement has several advantages. Because there is more tissue to cover the breast implant, it is less likely to be visible, which is especially important for saline breast implants, which are… Read More
How to Choose Breast Implant Size Jun 7, 2012 in Breast Implants Only you can determine your ideal breast size. Once you have decided on your desired breast size, we can easily determine the right breast implant size to achieve that result. A good place to start is with pictures of you at a time you were happy with the size of your breasts. Perhaps you were pregnant or had gained weight, causing your breasts to swell,… Read More
Sagging and Breast Implants May 31, 2012 in Breast Implants Breast implants can be used to reliably achieve many cosmetic improvements of the breasts. However, breast sagging may or may not be correctable using breast implants. If your breasts are sagging as a result of lost volume that causes you to have slack, empty breasts, then breast implants can be used to restore that volume. Sometimes, too, breasts can look saggy because of their shape…. Read More
What Is Involved in Breast Augmentation Surgery? May 31, 2012 in Breast Augmentation Philadelphia plastic surgeon Dr. David A. Bottger recommends performing breast augmentation under general anesthesia. Once you have been placed under anesthesia, an incision is made in the location you discussed with Dr. Bottger during your consultation. Dr. Bottger uses three different breast augmentation incision locations: the inframammary (in the breast crease), the periareolar (at the edge of the nipple-areola complex), or the axillary (in the armpit). The incision… Read More
Who Is a Candidate for Breast Augmentation? May 31, 2012 in Breast Augmentation If you are considering breast augmentation, one of the most important questions you might ask is “Am I a candidate?” here is some basic information about the ideal candidates for breast augmentation using breast implants. First, the best candidates have cosmetic goals that can be achieved using breast implants. This can be to increase the size of breasts or restore lost volume in the breasts. Breast… Read More
Study Looks at Shape Results for Round, Anatomic Breast implants May 21, 2012 in Breast Implants In recent months, plastic surgery has turned its attention to the effort to create more objective standards for breast augmentation results. One earlier effort established “standards” for the shape of the ideal breast. A more recent effort looks at the impact of the type of breast implant on breast shape after breast augmentation. The study looked at relatively small sample sizes of women receiving round breast implants and anatomic… Read More
Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Breast Reduction Nightmare May 8, 2012 in Breast Reduction, Plastic Surgery Last week, buxom actress Jennifer Love Hewitt revealed a nightmare she had about losing her breasts. She said she was trying to work when someone put tubes in her breasts and began making them smaller. She cried out “Guys, don’t take them away!” Hewitt has suffered significant manipulation of her breasts in the public advertising campaign for her new series The Client List. The racy… Read More
Tissue Expansion before Breast Augmentation with Fat Grafting Apr 30, 2012 in Breast Augmentation Tissue expansion with an external expander can increase the survival rate and therefore predictability of breast augmentation with fat grafting, according to a study published in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Fat grafting seems for many women to be a valuable alternative to using breast implants for breast augmentation, but the technique is… Read More
Are Gummy Bear Breast Implants Better? Part 1: Safety Apr 23, 2012 in Breast Implants Last month we had the long-awaited approval of gummy bear breast implants. Believed imminent since at least 2007, the FDA surprised many people by taking so long to approve the implants, then surprised others by approving them so suddenly. “Gummy bear” breast implants, more properly known as form-stable silicone breast implants, received their nickname because of their firm but yielding texture. Think of fresh gummy… Read More
