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Nov

New Study Evaluates Risk of Capsular Contracture After Breast Augmentation

Patients who undergo breast augmentation surgery usually have a smooth recovery and are happy with the results of their surgery. As with any surgery, there are potential complications. One complication specific to breast augmentation surgery is capsular contracture, which may oc...

Nov

Surgeon’s Skill Affects Surgical Outcome

Patients have an enormous amount of information they can sift through when trying to choose which plastic surgeon they want to perform their operation. The following questions should be asked and answered prior to your surgery: What is your plastic surgeon's education a...

Nov

International Plastic Surgery Tourism: Travel Abroad for Cosmetic Procedures

The concept of combining a vacation with plastic surgery may be appealing, and a recent study in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open discusses some of the recent trends associated with this phenomenon. Whereas foreign patients are generally attracte...

Nov

Are Surgical or Non-Invasive Options Best?

There seems to be an ever increasing number of non-invasive, non-surgical procedures that claim to remove fat, tighten skin, and produce incredible results. Some of the technologies are modifications on well established treatments, such as laser skin resurfacing. Others use moda...

Nov

Timing Your Plastic Surgery: Scheduling and Recovery Considerations

Among the many variables involved in planning any plastic surgery procedure, an important one is when to schedule your surgery. Minimally invasive cosmetic procedures such as Botox, fillers and skin rejuvenation only require minimal preparation. For most aesthetic surgical proced...

Nov

Patient Education In Plastic Surgery

With the plethora of news channels, websites, articles, chat rooms and other sources of information about plastic surgery, how are patients supposed to distinguish fact from fiction? Ultimately, undergoing any plastic surgery procedure should be a personal decision that you make...

Nov

Brazilian Butt Lift: Enhancing Your Derriere

The buttocks - also known as gluteus maximus, posterior, derriere, booty, and some less socially acceptable terms – have been a focus of plastic surgery procedures recently. As with any other part of our body, when it comes to beauty and enhancement there are va...

Nov

Smarter Breast Implants: Microchip Tracking

Breast implants are medical devices that are used in plastic surgery for both cosmetic breast augmentation and for breast reconstruction. Once implanted inside a woman's body, identification of the implants may prove difficult, and currently relies on a card given to the pa...

Nov

Breast Implant Tracking: New FDA Rule

All breast implants are considered medical devices, and currently breast implant manufacturers for the US market include Allergan, Mentor and Sientra. Whether used for cosmetic purposes such as in breast augmentation or enhancement, or in breast reconstruction, all breast implant...

Nov

Cosmetic Surgery Lift Results: Look Younger, Maybe Not Prettier

In yet another study aimed to quantitate the outcome of plastic surgery procedures, patients were evaluated both in terms of their apparent age and attractiveness after cosmetic surgery. The findings, published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, included a series of patients who und...

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