Breast implant ruptures can cause pain, changes in the shape of the breast, and other complications. However, a ruptured breast implant can also go unnoticed for many years. As time passes, it is more likely that a breast implant will break. The older the implants are, the higher the chance of it rupturing or deflating. …
Improving Your Femininity With Labiaplasty
Over the past decade or so, a new trend has appeared that has been taboo in years past. Thanks to the expansion of the media and widespread use of the internet, more and more women have access to see the appearance of the female genitalia. Not aware of what they could look like, women simply …
Implant Replacement
Since this week’s episode of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” aired, there has been a great deal of talk regarding Kris Jenner’s (mother of Kim Kardashian) new breasts. In the most recent episode, Jenner underwent a breast revision to replace her breast implants. Her old breast implants were larger and made of a different material …
Saline vs. Silicone
Breast augmentation surgery (also known as breast enlargement) increases the size of the breasts through the insertion of saline or silicone implants. Almost two decades after it was banned from use for cosmetic breast augmentation, the silicone gel implant has bounced back stronger than ever. However, despite it’s resurgence, silicone gel implants still carry a …
Pucker Those Lips!
What Is the Ideal Filler to Help Enhance Your Lovely Kissables? I tell all my patients who come in for lip enhancement: “Sausage is a shape, but not for lips!” All too often, especially around the 90210 zip code, I see lips that are unsightly due to distorted and irregular shapes. None of which are …
BOTOX® for Migraine Headaches
Over the past year, I’ve had several patients come in to see me for their migraine headaches. They have tried prescription medications but to no avail. The headaches are so severe that it literally hinders their life’s daily activities. Not only does stress from the workplace bring on these headaches, but exercising and sexual intimacy …
BOTOX® Cosmetic in your 20s?
I was at a plastic surgery conference last year and the host speaker told us how his 18-year-old daughter brought up the subject of BOTOX® Cosmetic. She wanted to know why she couldn’t get BOTOX® Cosmetic to “prevent aging.” So he in turn posed the question to all of us plastic surgeons in the audience. …