Category: Breast

The breasts are important to a female. They define her femininity and help make her who she is. It isn’t a surprise that breast surgery is one of the most requested plastic surgeries by women. Whether the breasts are too big or too small, asymmetrical, sagging, or lacking in volume, different breast surgery techniques are […]

The holidays are here, and the new year is just around the corner. Many people are hoping to start out 2017 in shape by feeling and looking good. Among the vast group of New Year’s resolution makers are women who have had multiple children. Many women notice the havoc that pregnancy and childbirth can wreak […]

In honor of the kids going back to school, I thought I would write a few words about a growingly popular procedure—The Mommy Makeover.  A mommy makeover is a surgery, usually done in a single stage, that involves surgery on a woman’s breasts and abdomen.  The goal of the procedure is to achieve, and often […]

One of the early decisions that a breast augmentation patient must make is saline versus silicone implants.  Silicone implants are going to give a patient a more natural result, both with appearance and feel than saline implants.  Silicone implants are going to be less likely to result in rippling, which is a deformity seen on […]

When a patient comes to me for a breast augmentation consult, we have to decide what size implant will achieve the patient’s desired results.  One of the first decisions a patient must decide is whether she wants a natural appearing breast or an augmented appearing breast.  More specifically does the patient want to have natural […]

Make sure he/she is a Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon and is a member of the American Board of Plastic Surgery.  This is very different from a Board-Certified Cosmetic Surgeon.  Board-Certified Plastic Surgeons must complete a 6 year residency in Plastic Surgery or they must complete a 5 year residency in General Surgery and a 3 year […]