Beauty Care videos

What we do is when the patient comes back one week after the surgery, we prescribe the three medications we use to prevent further capsular contracture problem. And we instruct them in massaging the breasts, which I don’t think does very much, but everyone expects it, so we tell the...

Recovery from breast augmentation, of course, depends on where the implant is placed. If the implant is placed under the muscle, which is, as I said, I do not advise under any circumstance, it is extremely painful. Patients are in bed often for a week, and taking narcotics. If you...

Silicone gel breast implants are better, they feel softer, they have less risk of rippling, in my opinion less risk of capsular contracture, and they also lie better when the patient lies down. The saline implant is a balloon filled with water. It doesn’t move very much. The silicone when...

The saline implant has really only one advantage, and that is the slightly smaller incision. Otherwise, I feel that the silicone gel implants are far superior.

First of all, about the type, I much prefer a round, smooth-walled implant. It gives the most natural appearance in my opinion. If you use an oval-shaped impant, it can rotate. To keep it from rotating, they texture it, and I believe texturing it creates more problem with capsular contracture...

Well, all incisions heal in essentially the same way, and again, the care that the plastic surgeon takes in putting the incision together will significantly affect the way the would heals. What the post-operative care involves is mainly the management of drains which are left in after the surgery to...

Well, there are two different procedures entirely. A tummy tuck is done to remove excess skin and fat that is pretty much overhanging, remove stretch marks that are below the navel, and to repair the abdominal muscles which are torn during pregnancy. A liposuction removes fat from under the skin...

Well, as with any operation, there is a risk of infection. There’s an extremely rare rick of bleeding after the surgery. I’ve actually never seen that, and there is a risk of skin loss, because when the surgery is done, some of the blood supply is interfered with, and if...

Tummy tuck surgeries for men are of course only due to weight loss. We don’t see too many men becoming pregnant these days, fortunately. So the patient who has had a significant weight loss—100 or 150 pounds—will have torn, loose skin that hangs and so the tummy tuck on men...