Posted On: June 19, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
FDA APPROVAL On June 14, 2013, Mentor approved its form of a gummy bear silicone gel implant, similar to the 410 highly cohesive Allergan silicone gel implant. These implants are now approved by the FDA and are for women 22 years of age and older for augmentation as well as reconstructive use. The FDA approved […]
Read MorePosted On: June 10, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Patients present to my office every day with breast hypoplasia. The term breast hypoplasia simply means small breasts, hypoplastic breasts with minimal breast growth and development. This patient’s example on her preop shows that she has hypoplastic breasts with involutional upper pole atrophy, loss of tissue going to the upper breast. She also some skin […]
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: January 23, 2013 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Patients from all over come to Beverly Hills to have their breast reduction performed with Dr. Linder. The breast reduction procedure involves removing skin, fat and glandular tissue. The normal breast is composed of 50% fat and 50% glandular tissue. When patients have an excessive amount of fat, breast tissue and skin, they may have bilateral breast […]
Read MorePosted On: December 10, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Patients present to me with significant laxity of their breasts after breastfeeding their children or significant weight loss. The question is to whether to do implants with a lift versus implants alone. It is very evident, as in the example below, that the implant with the lift has given this patient the greatest upper pole […]
Read MorePosted On: November 08, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Three major FDA-approved companies, Allergan, Sientra and Mentor, have now provided us with their three-year rupture rate for both primary augmentation and revision augmentation. Primary augmentation for Mentor, N=551 with 0.5%, revision augmentation, N=146, 7.7% and Sientra breast implant three-year rupture rate, N=1,115 for primary augmentation with 2.5% andN=362 for revision augmentation, 0.0%. Finally, for Allergan silicone-filled breast […]
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 09, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
October, 2012 Because a portion of my practice deals specifically with breast augmentation, breast revision and breast reconstruction, the month of October is an extremely important month for us. Breast cancer is considered the second most common breast cancer found in women after lung cancer. One out of 8-1/2 women worldwide will develop one form […]
Read MorePosted On: October 01, 2012 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient presents with increasing painful breast deformity associated with scar tissue contracture after pregnancy. The double-bubble deformity is a reasonably common problem that I see throughout the month. These patients presents with severe encapsulation of the upper fold of the implant causing superior retroposition of the implant and a droopiness of the skin leading […]
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