Posted On: December 09, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Breast revision surgery is extremely common in patients who have had implants placed in the past and have become pregnant and breastfed after pregnancy. The incidents of scar tissue surrounding the implants is extraordinarily high, and although a specific percentage is not indicated in the literature, in my practice, I see well over 50 to […]
Read MorePosted On: November 18, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
I was presented with a 33 year old female who was considering having a breast augmentation but was concerned about how the implants would look with her slim build. During her consultation, we discuss her concerns and how we would approach the augmentation. After setting the expectations, we agreed to use 350 cc high-profile saline […]
Read MorePosted On: November 03, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
I was presented with a 41-year-old female who was looking to have a breast augmentation as well as correct her asymmetry of her breast. During the consultation she explained her goals and we agreed to address the right breast by elevating the fold and nipple along with using 350 cc high profile saline breast implants. […]
Read MorePosted On: October 27, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The female patient presented is 30 years of age and comes from the Los Angeles area. She was requesting a primary breast augmentation and was wanting to look very natural. After she explained her desires, we selected Allergan’s moderate-plus saline breast implants with the right breast implant having 340cc and the left breast implant having […]
Read MorePosted On: October 06, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Today I operated on a breast revision patient who had 28-year-old ruptured silicone Dow Corning implants. On MRI, it was determined that the patient had both extra and intracapsular rupture of the implant. As a result, these were probably chronic ruptured implants for many, many years. What has happened is the implants have ruptured and the silicone […]
Read MorePosted On: September 17, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
I was presented a 55 year old patient with with a ruptured Dow Corning silicone breast implant. During the consultation we discussed her goals and outlined the approach to achieve her breast revision and enhancement. For the left breast we selected 425cc silicone high profile gel implant. The right breast we selected 400cc silicone high profile gel implant. As […]
Read MorePosted On: September 02, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
I was presented a patient who, after pregnancy, developed a Baker 4 capsular contracture to her breast. When any type of breast implant is inserted, the body naturally forms a protective lining around it. This is referred to as the capsule or tissue capsule. This happens in everyone whether the breast implant is smooth or […]
Read MorePosted On: July 10, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient presents a left ruptured breast implant along with a double bubble deformity, which means the implant has risen and the skin now over-drapes the breast. To correct the left breast I down sized the implant using a 320cc high profile saline implant and used the circus-areola technique (also known as the benelli procedure) which […]
Read MorePosted On: June 17, 2015 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The preoperative photo to the left indicate the patient has Pectus Carinatum Deformity. Pectus Carinatum is a congenital anomaly of the sternum (anomaly congenitally is often referred to as a pigeon chest). I performed a breast augmentation to this 27 years old patient by placing subpectoral implants in the dual plane technique using 306cc moderate plus silicone gel implants. I […]
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