Although very widespread, breast augmentation is an aesthetic surgical procedure that is still a victim of some clichés. Many people instantly think of what we see far too often on social media or in the media in general: « bimbo » breasts, too big, which poorly conceal the wielding of the scalpel. As for men, according to … Find out more …
I obviously receive many women in my practice. Nevertheless, more and more men are now coming through my door for medical aesthetic treatments or aesthetic surgery procedures. This is the case for patients with gynecomastia, an illness that causes the development of breasts in men and which, it goes without saying, can be very difficult … Find out more …
For various reasons, some women wish to have their implants removed and not replaced. Consequently, they wonder what their breasts will look like once the implants have been removed. What is a breast explant procedure? A breast explant procedure involves removing the implants. This surgical procedure in its own right is generally definitive, in … Find out more …
A breast lift is not always necessary to treat breast ptosis, or sagging breasts. In some cases, it is possible to lift and add fullness to the breasts using only a minimally invasive technique involving the injection of autologous fat cells. This is known as breast lipofilling, fat transfer, or lipomodelling. In which cases is … Find out more …
With plastic surgery, care does not stop after the procedure. The healing stage is very important after aesthetic surgery. I always see patients again about three or four days after the operation, then about two weeks later. Then, there is usually an appointment one month then three months after the procedure. In general, for … Find out more …
Implants and breast cancers. What are the risk? Various articles in the press or reports on television have recently suggested that breast implants may present a possible cancer risk. Patients are sometimes faced with a huge amount of false information, so it’s important to filter everything and keep them properly informed. Breast cancer Breast … Find out more …
Scar tissue grows around an implant, forming a capsule. When an implant is placed in the body – whether in the hip, knee or breast – the organism reacts to this foreign body and creates a protective barrier around it to isolate it. This is called a periprosthetic capsule, and the formation of this capsule … Find out more …
Lipofilling is a way of increasing volume without the use of implants. This technique consists in taking fat from areas where there is excess and putting it where there is not enough, for example the buttocks or breasts. Lipofilling offers permanent results as it actually involves grafting fat cells. In other words, the fat cells … Find out more …
What is the difference between a breast reduction and ptosis treatment ? We can perform a breast reduction or treat breast ptosis. In both cases, there are two objectives : Lift breasts Reshape breasts In the case of breast reduction, the procedure involves lifting and reshaping the breasts, as well as reducing them by at … Find out more …
For a breast augmentation using implants, there is no obvious choice between round or anatomical prosthetics. The choice really depends on the patient, what she wants, her morphology and her breasts. A round implant has a base in the shape of a circle. From the profile view, it has a slightly rounded appearance. An anatomical, … Find out more …
With age, the breasts tend to sag. The standard treatment for sagging breasts is a mastopexy with T-shaped scars, which reshapes and lifts the breasts but has the disadvantage of leaving relatively large scars. Fortunately, those T scars that patients so often fear can be avoided. Indeed, in some cases, anatomical prostheses (which have the … Find out more …
Pip implants After the PIP, ( Poly Implant Prothese) implant scandal, the AFSSAPS (French Health Products Safety Agency) issued a release on November 29, 2011 reporting that of the 30000 French women with implants, only one isolated case of lymphoma was observed and that the patient was wearing PIP implants which broke in the breast … Find out more …
