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Atlanta Georgia Breast Reduction
Posted on October 30, 2008 9:04AM in Video Transcripts
The purpose of the breast reduction is to remove the excess weight from the patient’s chest. The reason that is a good procedure is that the complaints that patients come in with the neck and the back hurts and have notching on the shoulders. This usually is something that has bothered them all their life, using early in life for other reasons but as they age they tend to get more and more pains, chronic pains in their back and neck. When you remove the excess weight from the chest, the first thing the patients say is that my neck and back have stopped hurting, to the last patient they have always said I wish I had done this 15 years ago.
Atlanta Georgia Breast Lift
Posted on October 30, 2008 9:02AM in Video Transcripts
In terms of breast lift this tends to come more toward women who have had children in the middle portion of life where they have lost volume but want to increase the volume typically with breast augmentation or with an augmentation with a lift and then you place the nipple in the exact appropriate position. This usually can be done in one procedure. Sometimes it does take two procedures and then in the very end everyone is very happy with the result because now it is back to the way it looked before they had the children.
Atlanta Georgia Breast Augmentation Implants
Posted on October 30, 2008 9:01AM in Video Transcripts
In terms of breast augmentation, it tends to be a younger patient does not necessarily have to be to increase the volume and perkiness of the breast. There are so many different ones and we will discuss all the specifics when they come in for consultation, but in general it is a saline breast implant or silicone breast implant which has come back in the market. Ninety-nine percent of the patients are very happy with what this achieves. I have never had to remove for increase in size or exchange for decrease in size. We are able to hit it pretty close exactly to what they want when they say they want a C-cup or D-cup size.
Atlanta Georgia Breast Augmentation Lift Reduction Gynecomastia
Posted on October 30, 2008 9:00AM in Video Transcripts
Procedures associated with the breast with breast reduction, breast augmentation, breast-lift and removal of breast tissue for gynecomastia, which is enlargement of the male breast. Usually the breast augmentation in the early in life is just trying to increase the size and perkiness of the breast. After children, sometimes the volume has deflated so you are try to increase the volume of the breast and make it perkier and what you would do for that is a breast-lift or an augmentation or a combination of the two. A breast reduction, however, would be for removal of breast tissue and that is more of a genetic issue for women who have a much larger breast and complain of neck and back pain associated with it. The last category tends to be for men. Most men you know think about breast tissue but it is mostly fat in those areas and in those particular areas you would do liposuction and a small surgical incision to remove the breast tissue. Each of these procedure is designed to enhance whatever you have or remove excess that you might have so you can look better in your clothes and feel better.
BOTOX® Cosmetic Atlanta Georgia
Posted on October 30, 2008 8:58AM in Video Transcripts
Anyone concerned with their face, things like that with the Band-Aid Facelift or the Mini Facelift have a concern with wrinkles or lines on the face and these can be helped by a lot of things, but the main ones are Botox and fillers and with fillers of Radiesse, Restylane, and collagen. Any line that has become etched on the face just to fill it out. It is not going to remove it completely. It is temporary, but even if you have a facelift, you are going to still have to have a few of those etch lines that will not be removed by a facelift. Botox on the other hand removes those lines that are formed by muscles around the eyes in between the eyebrows and the forehead and what it gives you is a rested look. It does not freeze your face as some people say. If it is done correctly, you should look rested, youthful and very happy.
Atlanta Georgia Combined Facial Plastic Surgery Procedures
Posted on October 30, 2008 8:57AM in Video Transcripts
Any patient who is concerned with the way they look and their face or may be considering a Mini Facelift or traditional facelift, also has concerns about other areas on the face. The most typical procedures they can go with tend to be upper and lower eyelid surgeries, blepharoplasty, also liposuction along the edge of the jaw or also under the chin. Some people also have prominent ears and need their ears pinned back. All of these can be accomplished also under local anesthesia. I do a mini version of the upper and lower eyelid surgery, a mini liposuction under the chin, even pinning of the ears, which can be done in the office on local anesthesia and you do not have to go to sleep. Now in terms of the nose, the rhinoplasty, some people have moderate nasal defects such as hump in the nose or a little bit larger nose and that does need to go to the operating room with traditional anesthesia and general anesthesia. But, everybody is very happy with those procedures and you can do those without totally changing the patient. You can make them look very natural so that they will be very happy with their look, more youthful and excited about looking into the mirror instead of trying to look away from the mirror.
Band-Aid (Mini) FaceLift Candidates Atlanta Georgia
Posted on October 30, 2008 8:55AM in Video Transcripts
The difference between the traditional facelift and the Band-Aid or Mini Facelift that I do has to do with extent. Some people need more skin removed, typically the patients for the Band-Aid Facelift are a little younger or have already had a facelift. It is not that they are that much difference because the same procedures that are used for or the same techniques that are used for the traditional facelift are used for the Band-Aid Facelift and in both cases we are going for a very natural look. I think we have achieved that in all our patients and patients are very happy with either one that they use. The differences tend to be that you have general anesthesia with the traditional facelift. It is a more extensive procedure so there is more bruising and swelling, but the recovery is just as easy and you will see patients come out just as happy with either procedure and they are very natural looking.
Atlanta Georgia Facelift Surgery
Posted on October 30, 2008 8:53AM in Video Transcripts
Traditional facelift is pretty standardized. It has been set that way and when I learned the technique in New York and the procedure is about two and a half hours, it is under general anesthesia. The effects are a little more dramatic than you would see with a Band-Aid Facelift but you do not have to make on that, you can adjust them to each patient where they have a little more excess skin under the chin, a little more excess skin along the jawline and this needs to be addressed because you have to do a little bit larger procedure where you go further out on the face. The results can be made to look very natural and I am proud of myself for making people look natural.
Atlanta Georgia Band-Aid (Mini) FaceLift
Posted on October 30, 2008 8:51AM in Video Transcripts
Many advantages that you will find with the Band-Aid facelift or Mini Facelift is something that was driven by my patients and that is they did not want to go through the long time of a regular facelift and did not want to go through the long recovery time, the bruising, the excess swelling, the longer incisions, so the Band-Aid Facelift that you kind of overcome those disadvantages. It is a two-hour procedure from the time you walk in to the time you leave. With local anesthesia, you can get some conscious sedation of Valium or something like that if you need it, 90 percent of my patients just go with local anesthesia and the advantage of that is that you leave without the effects of general anesthesia or you can drive yourself home. It is real surgery but it is manageable and the effects are manageable too and that patients look like a little like me 10 years ago and that can be achieved with the Band-Aid Facelift.
Atlanta Georgia BOTOX® Cosmetic Restylane®
Posted on October 30, 2008 8:50AM in Video Transcripts
When we talk about fillers and Botox, both actually have a very complementary role to a mini facelift or a regular facelift. The patients will come in a lot of times trying to put those procedures off because they are afraid of surgery and rightly so they are nervous about the pain and the expense, but at some point, you will see that there is excess skin on the face and that is basically what the facelift does. It removes excess skin. So, do not think of them, as one versus the other is complementary like the cake and the icing. Even after you have a Mini Facelift or a regular traditional facelift, you are still going to need some Botox or some Restylane, you just need less of it.
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