Ah. Driving after surgery varies by surgery type and your pain level. Simple rules? If you are on pain medication or muscle relaxants, you cannot drive. I saw signs this weekend “DUI doesn’t just mean booze. […]
The latest issue of the Plastic Surgery News (June 2017), a publication put out by our national plastic surgical society, had a front page article, “Gluteal fat grafting complications prompt a Global Scale Investigation.” The byline […]
The purpose of this study is simple. If you have a breast augmentation surgery with implants, will you be able to breastfeed? December 2016 study out Argentina in the Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Journal, “Cohort Study […]
A recent Plastic Surgery Magazine reiterated the ALCL stats. By the numbers. 1 : 30,000. This is the risk of ALCL for women with textured implants. (no cases reported in patients with smooth implants) 126. This […]
Natrelle Inspira implants expanded the number of profiles we see (so you can get widths which fit you better), which allows for better tailoring to each woman’s body. And you can choose textured or smooth shell. Now […]
First let’s get some terminology down (when I read my blog title, even I was like #)*&$#??? There are so many abbreviations it’s like a foreign language.) TERMS: BIA : Breast implant associated ALCL: Anaplastic Large […]
A friend sent this to me. It was originally published in the New York Times in October 2016. I thought they were great basic ideas to follow, so thought it should be repeated here. This was […]
The purpose of this study is simple. If you have a breast augmentation surgery with implants, will you be able to breastfeed? December 2016 study out Argentina in the Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Journal, “Cohort Study […]
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal had a study where they looked at studies to ask the question: Do longer courses of antibiotics reduce the incidence of infection after surgery in breast reconstruction with implants? This is a […]
The Aesthetic Society has started a new campaign to educate women on what options they have. They created an animated woman “ASAPS Amy.” (ASAPS is the Aesthetic Plastic Surgical Society, a society for Board Certified Plastic […]