Posted On: April 26, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
SECONDARY AUGMENTATION MASTOPEXY The patient presents from Brazil. Large implants, low profile, silicones were placed above the muscle, subglandular. She has developed severe grade 3 ptosis and will do well with a secondary augmentation mammoplasty with style 45 silicone 500 cc extra high profile silicone gel and a complete formal mastopexy using the inferior pedicle […]
Read MorePosted On: April 02, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
SILICONE GEL IMPLANT, A NATURAL LOOK The patient presents with bilateral breast dysphoria, loss of upper pole fullness of her upper breast, excellent candidate. Patient will do well with a style 15 silicone gel placed in the dual plane technique through a periareolar approach. Her preoperative photos show loss of upper pole fullness of her breast. […]
Read MorePosted On: February 22, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
ALLERGAN ACADEMY®, Awards this Certificate of completion to: Stuart Linder, MD for completing Allergan’s NATRELLE 410 Certification Program on 2-22-2013. The mission of ALLERGAN ACADEMY is to educate through a unique forum that reinforces product knowledge, encourages practice innovation and allows for the exchange of new ideas.
Read MorePosted On: February 21, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Yesterday Allergan, Inc. (NYSE: AGN) announced that the company has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) to market the Natrelle® 410 Highly Cohesive Anatomically Shaped Silicone-Filled Breast Implants for use in breast reconstruction, augmentation and revision surgery. Below is the information released by Allergan, Inc. IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Allergan, Inc. (NYSE: AGN) today announced that the company has received approval from […]
Read MorePosted On: January 29, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient presents with bottoming out of her right breast implant after six years post-surgery with different surgeon, as well as ruptured left saline implant. The patient below has multiple components to her diagnosis, including a deflated left saline implant, asymmetry to the breast and significant bottoming out of the right breast with the implant […]
Read MorePosted On: December 26, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
High profile saline implants are excellent implants for women who are considering an augmentation mammoplasty procedure in order to gain fullness, volume, increased AP projection and reduce the lateral fullness or matronly appearance associated with low profile implants. The following examples are all women with high profile saline implants that in similar perspectives have increased AP fullness; […]
Read MorePosted On: October 28, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Yesterday, I had the privilege of removing Dow Corning silicone implants that were now 48 years old; in fact, several years older than me. As expected, this was an extremely time-consuming and difficult surgery, as the silicone implant material had calcified over the last 35 years due to disintegration of the shall of the implant […]
Read MorePosted On: October 22, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Recently, I removed polyurethane implants on a patient that were placed over 20 years ago in Romania. These implants have been shown to cause sarcoma and cancer in rats. They are no longer FDA-approved in the United States of America. Upon removal of the implants, they were found to be textured coated; however, they were […]
Read MorePosted On: August 30, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient below presents from the Middle East, unhappy with the appearance of her breast implants placed in Israel. She has cohesive anatomical gummy bear implants that are textured and have rotated. She wants a smoother, softer appearance to her breasts without the hard texturing and appearance that came with this specific implant. The patient […]
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