Pregnancy and childbirth can entirely change your body’s appearance, and some of these changes can be permanent. Many women report that after childbirth, their breasts don’t look as youthful, their skin seems less supple, their stomach isn't as toned as it once was, or their rectus abdominis muscles (six-pack ab muscles) have separated during [...]
Breast augmentation surgery is one of the most sought after surgeries among women. In fact, it is reported to occur over 350,000 times every year in American alone. Breast augmentation surgery is performed to balance asymmetries and to improve the loss of breast volume due to pregnancy, breastfeeding, and aging. We know it is [...]
Some women, for many reasons, find themselves unhappy with their breast implants. Many patients desire a different look or size than what was originally sought after. Revision surgery of the breast or implant removal can also be done for prior reconstructive or other cosmetic breast surgery. Implant removal candidates include: Women who are not [...]
Many women don’t realize that they still need to get mammograms after getting breast implants. Nearly half of the women who get breast implants are in their 20’s or early 30’s – meaning they have implants before needing to worry about mammograms or breast cancer risk. Mammograms are important to detect breast cancer early. [...]
After breast cancer, many women struggle with the idea of losing one or both breasts. Unfortunately, a mastectomy can be necessary to remove all the breast cancer. While removing all of the cancer is most important, it’s normal to worry how life will feel after a mastectomy. There are two choices for when to [...]
Capsular contracture is the body’s response to foreign materials. It is essentially a scar tissue the body makes to wall off implants, whether they are breast implants or artificial joints, to protect the body from something that it recognizes as a foreign material. Typically every implant has capsular contracture. What [...]
