Category: Breast

  Welcome to my case study. The procedure is breast augmentation. The patient is 21 years of age. She is otherwise fit and well with no health concerns, so we can proceed to the operation. Looking at her preoperative images, one can see she has a lovely natural breast shape. Her chief complaint is that…

Jo Hartley writes in today’s Sydney Morning Herald about her own experiences with breast reduction surgery citing celebrity Ariel Winter’s recent decision to undergone the same.  From a surgeon’s perspective, breast reduction patients are among the most happy in a plastic surgeon’s practice. Patients describe relief from neck, back and shoulder pain, in addition to…

I read with interest an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 19/11/2014 concerning a new breast augmentation procedure being offered by a New York plastic surgeon that has been dubbed “insta-breasts” or “vacation breasts”. For a cost of US$2500-3500, the augmentation lasts 24 hours only so has been touted as a procedure one…

Breast reconstruction can be performed using implants or the patient’s own tissues. Using the patient’s own tissues is referred to as an autologous reconstruction. The TRAM flap is one of many different options available to patients desiring an autologous breast reconstruction. Over the past 30 years there has been continual refinement in TRAM flap breast…