Archive for the ‘Breast Surgery’ Category

Hitting The Beach After Breast Augmentation Recovery

Thursday, July 7th, 2011 by Allison

woman wearing swimsuit, breast augmentation recovery beach storySummer is swimsuit season. If your swimsuit shopping often leads to daydreaming about breast augmentation surgery, you’re not alone. The good news is that if you undergo breast augmentation surgery now, you can be back at the beach before summer is over.

Breast augmentation recovery only takes a few weeks, and the surgery leaves minimal scarring that does not show under your swimsuit.

Dr. Melinda Haws, with the Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville says, “you can be in the beach, in the ocean, in the water in 2-3 weeks [after breast augmentation surgery]. Are your breasts going to look as pretty as they will in 2-3 months? No.”

Breast Augmentation Recovery

Like many cosmetic surgical procedures, the full results of breast augmentation surgery are seen once all the swelling is gone. It takes several months after breast augmentation surgery swelling to completely subside. However, you can be recovered and healed enough to hit the beach a few weeks after surgery.

Your Best Swimsuit Body

Women in Westchester county choose to have breast augmentation surgery to increase the size of their breasts, correct an asymmetry, or restore lost volume after breast feeding and weight loss.

While many women choose to undergo breast augmentation surgery in the fall or winter to ensure that they are fully recovered for swimsuit season, the short recovery times means that you can have surgery now and be swimming again by August. Other popular surgeries that can help you improve your beach body, such as a tummy tuck, have a longer recovery time. You may want to schedule a tummy tuck after Labor Day if you don’t want to lose too much beach time this summer.

Find out more by watching the video below or by scheduling a breast implant consultation today. We have breast implant specials running at our Westchester County, NY office through the end of August.

Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction after Breast Cancer Surgery

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 by ndgoldberg

Oncoplastic reconstruction refers to the combination of techniques for breast cancer surgery and aesthetic breast surgery.

Often, women with a cancer diagnosis who will require partial mastectomy or lumpectomy would like additional breast reduction, breast lift, or breast augmentation to either or both sides.  This is possible in certain cases, depending on the size and shape of the breasts as well as the location of the tumor.

I have developed many techniques to accomplish these goals, working with a variety of breast cancer surgeons.  Doing this type of work requires several things. First, I have to draw on a large experience of aesthetic breast surgery in order to modify standard techniques to fit these unique cases.

My experience has given me a a very deep understanding of the breast anatomy which enables me to move the tissues creatively and safely.  Finally, I have enough experience with these particular cases to have developed excellent communication with the oncologic breast surgeons with whom I work.  This last part is critical to ensure that the plan is understood by both surgeons in order to execute it in a way that is both oncologically sound and aesthetically pleasing.

A breast cancer diagnosis is always very emotionally difficult.  Oncoplastic breast surgery, however, allows a patient to look forward to achieving some personal aesthetic goals. A silver lining is always nice.

What is the Ideal Areola Size in a Reconstructed Breast?

Monday, June 6th, 2011 by ndgoldberg

There are no rules with aesthetic opinions.  Areolas can be made any size that you want.  They can be made to be more pointy or more flat.  The important thing is that you are shown photos of different sizes so that you can choose what you think looks best.

We do look to achieve good symmetry, but sometimes making each areola something slightly different than a perfect circle may look more natural.  Again, this is something to discuss with your plastic surgeon.

When Can I Exercise After Tummy Tuck or Mommy Makeover?

Monday, June 6th, 2011 by ndgoldberg

The component of the mommy makeover that can suffer from exercise is the abdominoplasty. An abdominoplasty involves stitches that tighten the abdominal wall in order to recreate the “hourglass” shape.  Heavy lifting can possibly break one or more of these important stitches.  For this reason I generally recommend waiting six weeks before any weight training.

Running and aerobic activity can be resumed after two weeks, unless there has been breast surgery in combination.  Running can cause a lot of trauma to the breasts so I generally recommend a minimum of four weeks in these cases.

For more answers to this question or questions like these please see my posts on realself.com