TUBA - Dr. 90210 Plastic Surgeon’s Passport to Fame
Breast Implants, breast augmentation
TUBA is beloved by many women because it inserts breast implants through a tiny opening in the navel and leaves no other scars.
And while the New York Times has called Dr. 90210’s Robert Rey, M.D. “the most famous plastic surgeon in America,” what the article does not say was that he owes it all to the TUBA.
While in medical school, Dr. Rey learned the then-new technique of inserting breast implants through the belly button.
In 2000, when Dr. Rey came to California he gave a receptionist at the E! Channel in Beverly Hills a TUBA procedure and she raved about it. More women asked for the procedure and word spread throughout the building. Soon, he was asked to appear on a new reality show - Dr. 90210 — about plastic surgeons. The rest, as they say, is history.
The TUBA procedure can be done because plastic surgeons use an instrument known as an endoscope. Inserted just under the skin, the endoscope contains a bright light and camera on a tiny cable. The image then appears on a television monitor.
The plastic surgeon watches the monitor to see where the tools are inside the body; the tiny tools are also inserted under the skin.
Using different, long surgical tools under the skin, the surgeon reaches up to the breasts and creates pockets for the implants. He or she then rolls up the breast implants like cigars, inserts them into the belly button opening and works them into the pockets under the breast.
Then, the inserts are inflated with saline through a long filler tube. (Read more about the difference between saline vs silicone breast implants.) The filler tube seals upon removal while only several stitches are used to close the incision in the navel.
View some breast augmentation before and after pictures.
California Surgical Institute @ January 2, 2009
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