Breast augmentation surgery is beginning to pop up in the strangest places! This includes your ear/nose/throat doctors, family doctors, general surgeons, emergency room doctors, and… just about everybody else who has an MD after his or her name. Lots of doctors are trying their hand at the procedure as a way of supplementing their bottom line. [...]
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Breast Augmentation Using The Keller Funnel
Breast augmentation surgery is a safe and effective solution for women who want fuller and larger breasts but one of the biggest problems with breast augmentation has always been the risk of capsular contracture. It has always been a concern with breast augmentation and even now varies from 15 to 30% in some areas. In [...]
To Drain or Not to Drain That is the Question
Drains speed healing, make people more comfortable, and help decrease capsular contracture.
Breast Implants: Saline or Silicone?
Breast implants used in breast augmentation have been around since the 1960’s. Over the years, breast implant technology has gotten better and better and breast implants have continued to improve. So the breast implants currently available are the best in history. But there are still a number of confusing issues. The first is silicon or saline? Silicone [...]
Capsular Contracture After Breast Implants, What is it?
Capsular contracture is the most common undesired outcome with breast augmentation. The rates are reported to be as high as 30%. In my practice Advanced Concepts in Plastic Surgery of Sacramento this is roughly 5%. Anatomically capsular contracture is the process of shrinkage of the scar tissue that normally forms around every breast implant. This is usually [...]