Category: Breast Reduction
Posted On: June 10, 2010 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Because Dr. Linder’s practice is heavily involved with breast surgery, including breast augentation, breast revision, breast lifts and breast reductions, and having seen countless number of thousands of women and placed thousands and thousands of implants over the last 13 years, women have discussed with him their need for specifics in a bra. The specifics would include compression, comfort, […]
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Posted On: May 19, 2010 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
KELO-COTE AND BIOCORNEUM WITH SPF30 Dr. Linder is proud to be an advocate as well as a specialist for Kelo-cote on their recent infomercial now playing throughout the United States. Because a disproportionately large part of Dr. Linder’s practice is body sculpting women, scarring is an inevitable concern, especially with the multitude of breast lifts […]
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Posted On: April 02, 2010 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Excerpts from The Beverly Hills Shape, The Truth About Plastic Surgery, authored by Dr. Stuart Linder, Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon, page 128. Candidates for Breast Lift. “Candidates for breast lifts usually include women who have a severe amount of sagginess to their breasts. This usually includes those individuals whose nipples are located below the inframammary fold. The inframammary […]
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Posted On: March 25, 2010 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
In the thousands of breast augmentations and breast revisions, breast reductions and breast lifts that Dr. Linder has performed, he continues to address the compression and immediate postsurgical garment or dressings in a similar fashion. We do not use a surgical brassiere or any form of brassiere immediately after surgery in the operating room. Rather, […]
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Posted On: March 17, 2010 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Acute v. Delayed In the Acute Phase or first six weeks postoperatively, Dr. Linder instructs his patients not to do any heavy lifting over five pounds to prevent bleeding and hematomas, as well as to refrain from aspirin, Advil, Motrin, Excedrin, Ibuprofen or blood thinning products which could cause clotting deficiencies. Acutely, we also make […]
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Posted On: December 22, 2009 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Aerolar Reduction Areolas can be reduced in size when they are greater than 4.2 cm. In general, as Board Certified Plastic Surgeons, we vary the range of nipple areolar complexes from 3.8 to 4.4 cm in size, often associated with the proportionality of the woman’s breast and figure. We use 4.2 cm cookie cutters or […]
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Posted On: October 22, 2009 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
BREAST REDUCTION SCARRING Breast reduction surgery when performed correctly will lead to an excellent result. It will reduce the size of the weight, reduce functional problems, including back pain, neck strain, grooving around the shoulder blades, etc. The tradeoff for a breast reduction is scarring. Scarring can be unpredictable, although there are techniques that may […]
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Posted On: July 22, 2009 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
In general, we see patients of all ages who are considering breast augmentation, breast reduction and breast reconstructive surgeries. The age of the patient is very important. Obviously, up to a certain age, physiological growth continues to occur. Generally, the age of 18 is usually, in my opinion, considered the cutoff for elective augmentation mammoplasty […]
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Posted On: May 22, 2009 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
In general, patients who undergo formal mastopexies or the inferior pedicle Wise-pattern scar or breast reduction using the similar approach will have scarring which can never be completely predictable. Realize that scarring can be associated with hypertrophic, keloid, widespread, hypo or hyperpigmentation. We inform patients both in verbal as well as written consents of the […]
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