Breast Implants vs Fat Injections to the Breast
As society continues to demand that everything be ‘natural,’ it would make sense to shift from breast implants to fat injections to the breast for breast augmentation as well. Is it that simple? Can we substitute saline or silicone breast implants with your own natural fat and get the same results? A few years ago, […]
Breast Augmentation with Round Implants on Snapchat [video]
In this post, we were all about shaped breast implants. But let’s not forget about their older, more seasoned “sister” – the round breast implant. The round implant is still the most common implant used in breast augmentation and will be for the foreseeable future. Interestingly, most patients come in for their consult asking for […]
Sientra Breast Implants Available Again
As you may have read in this previous post, Sientra breast implants have had a trying several months. But that may soon be behind them. As of tomorrow, March 1st 2016, they’ll be available again. The truth is, nothing was ever wrong with the implants. In an overabundance of caution, the company chose to […]
Suicide and Breast Augmentation
Several studies in the past have linked breast augmentation and suicide. But just because there is a statistical association does not mean there’s a cause and effect. Back in 2001, Brinton et al was the first to connect breast augmentation and suicide. In that particular study, “breast augmentation patients were four times as likely […]
The Sientra Soap Opera
It’s been a bad couple of months for Sientra, the North American distributor of Silimed breast implants. And it’s too bad because they’re a scrappy young company that gave women additional choices when it came to breast implants for cosmetic or reconstructive purposes. Just a little background before we get to Sientra: Silimed (not […]
Breast Augmentation: Round or Shaped?
In the past, the word “choice” in breast augmentation referred to several things: on top of the muscle or under the muscle, an incision under the breast or through the areola, saline or silicone. But now you have a new choice: round or shaped. Whether you get round or shaped implants is dependent on […]