admin @ May 22, 2009 # Comments Off
You’ve often read on our blogs that plastic surgeons have years of training beyond medical school and will often add a year of fellowship, working at the side of an older and more experienced surgeon to learn a particular skill.
One such area is microsurgery, operating on very tiny structures of the body through a microscope.
When [...]
admin @ March 16, 2009 # Comments Off
Sometimes, the best laid plans of mice and men do go astray.
It happens in breast augmentation, too.
When breast augmentation became really popular around 2000, more types and sizes of breast implants were designed and added to plastic surgeons’ offices.
One, the tear-drop shaped implant, came into use because, hey, what could be greater than an implant [...]
admin @ February 13, 2009 # One Comment
When plastic surgeons perform a breast enhancement by inserting breast implants, they have four choices for making an incision:
In the areola, the dark ring surrounding the nipple
In the bottom of the breast where it meets the chest wall
Through the belly button
Through the patient’s arm pit
A new article in the International Journal of Surgical Reconstruction, a [...]
admin @ January 15, 2009 # Comments Off
Plastic surgeons who specialize in surgeries of the breast, such as:
Breast augmentation
Breast reduction
Breast lift
say about two percent of the female population have inverted nipples which are turned inward into the breast rather than standing upright.
The condition is usually due to genetics, while some infections and conditions can cause it.
Nonetheless, affected women seek help from plastic [...]
admin @ January 13, 2009 # Comments Off
There’s a new technique for plastic surgery pain relief that will be getting more attention from plastic surgeons.
Two plastic surgeons in Virginia and Maryland noticed a slightly different way to administer pain killers. It made that is making a large impact in a first study on 200 patients.
Dean Jabs, M.D. and Franklin Richards, M.D., like [...]