Posted On: March 06, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient below presents to us unhappy with her laterally displaced implants. She has low profile saline implants with a pocket that was released too far to the outer edge of her breast. In order to fix this without performing an internal capsulorraphy or internal suturing, I performed a medial open capsulotomy, superior capsulectomy, removal […]
Read MorePosted On: March 03, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The below example shows patient is a 34A. Good candidate for augmentation mammoplasty procedure. She is 19 years old. Patients under 22 by FDA regulations should undergo saline implant augmentation rather than silicone. At this time high profile saline implants placed in the dual plane technique, two-third under, one-third over and laterally will yield an […]
Read MorePosted On: February 24, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient presented with 36-year-old implants, had no idea as to the specifics or the details of the implant, whether they were silicone or saline. She was told that they were both. Well, in that case, it is consistent with double lumen Becker implants, which are no longer used. In the operating room it was […]
Read MorePosted On: February 21, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The below patient presents with severe breast endomorphic build, notice the thick chest wall muscle as well as the pectus excavatum with the slight asymmetry and droop after massive weight loss. The patient presents to the operating room where we reconstructed her with 450 cc style 45 extra high profile silicone gel implants in the […]
Read MorePosted On: February 16, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
On 2/15/2012, Dr. Linder performed a removal of ruptured left saline implant with a bilateral open periprosthetic capsulectomy. The patient had her surgery performed 15 years ago, but had no idea as to the type of implant that was placed in her body. In the operating room it was found that the patient had a […]
Read MorePosted On: February 07, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Patients present to us weekly with needs, including breast augmentation and breast lifts. At times they need combination procedures and at times we will only perform one or the other and stage the second surgery. When a patient arrives in consultation, it is absolutely vital that the Board Certified Plastic Surgeon clinically judge, measure the inframammary folds […]
Read MorePosted On: February 06, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Patients present to my office weekly with acute and chronic ruptures. Often, the patients do not know when the implant ruptured; however, I am able to determine somewhat of a timeline by performing what I call a CSI Beverly Hills. As to when the implants may have ruptured can be determined in the operating room. […]
Read MorePosted On: December 22, 2011 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
There are four degrees of ptosis that exist as standard with the American Board of Plastic Surgery Classification. Grade 1 is at the level of the inframammary fold. Grade 2 is where the nipple is below the inframammary fold between 1 and 2 cm. Grade 3 is severe skin laxity where the nipple areolar complex […]
Read MorePosted On: November 22, 2011 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
DOW CORNING RUPTURED CASE 2 The above patient presents with silicone gel implants placed 34 years ago. These are ruptured silicone gel implants that had been placed over one-third of a century ago. The patient left the implants in and has now noticed increasing pain. An MRI shows intra and extracapsular ruptured silicone implant and […]
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