FAQ

A breast reduction is a lift. It just so happens that in the case of a reduction your breasts are also made smaller when the lift is performed. With almost every breast reduction I also suggest adding two areas of liposuction on the lateral chest so you are not left with unwanted fat on that area lateral to your breast leading to your back. That is a frequent complaint of patients having a breast reduction because as the breast is made smaller and lifted all of a sudden patients will see fat that was there before surgery but just wasn’t appreciated. This can all be avoided with liposuction performed at the time of a breast reduction. Think of the breast surgery in this way:  a BREAST LIFT (or mastopexy) is just a lift and your breast volume stays about the SAME–this is for people that just want to lift their breasts, but don’t want them any bigger or smaller. A breast reduction is a lift and the breast is made smaller simultaneously for those patients who want their breasts smaller. A Breast Lift with Implants is for patients who need a lift but would also like their breasts to be larger.

It is the latest silicone implant which we call highly cohesive because the silicone gel is very, very sticky and keeps its shape.

Eighty-five percent of patients undergoing breast augmentation in the United States choose silicone/gel implants, and it’s my preferred implant for a few reasons:

• Silicone feels more natural
• Less rippling
• Saline can be harder on the breast tissue
• Silicone and saline are equally as safe – while you’ll read silicone is less safe on the internet, it is not true.

Both silicone and saline implants have the same outside shell –made of silicone – but the filling is different. Obviously, saline is full of saline water, and the silicone is highly cohesive silicone gel, also giving them the name gummy bear implants.

Technically yes you can but I don’t. I only perform BBLs under a general anesthetic, because I am very thorough with my liposuction, and get the deep fat and that fat is too hard to numb with only a local anesthetic. I don’t think the results with local anesthetic are as good as with a general anesthetic.

Fat cells will smoosh with pressure, and your body will break them down. As the fat cells die, they release the oil within, and the body’s immune system scavenges that fat. As the immune system gobbles up the oil, white blood cells deliver it to different parts of the body, like the liver, kidneys, and even the blood system, where it is disposed of and excreted.

I do not. I don’t like any liposuction method that uses any heat or thermal energy because I think that it heats the deep dermis and upper fat too much and produces more scarring and fibrosis than traditional liposuction. So I don’t use VASER, ultrasound, JPlasma or smartlipo.

I recommend at least 10 massages by a person who is specialized in postoperative massage. The more the better. But don’t overlook the power of TOUCH which is super, super important. It is not massage but just a simple touch and should be started on the day of surgery and continued for the first 6 weeks. This can be done by yourself and is best done with light touch and firm touch by you or your partner.

This is a Tummy Tuck with 10 areas of liposuction. There are 12 Areas to a body for liposuction so Lipo 360 is the same a Lipo 12. But when I do a Tummy Tuck I only do 10 areas of Lipo because 2 of the areas are removed with the tummy tuck. So Lipo360 with a tummy tuck is called a TT10.