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The patient is a woman who had breast augmentation approximately 20 years ago.  She had early upward displacement of the implant.  She recently had a right side deflation and presented for repair.  She had the left side deflated in the office under local anesthesia to allow the breast tissue to recoil and be more symmetric […]

The patient is a Latin descent female who dislikes her dorsal hump (bump on her nose) and her wide nares (nostril width).  She has improvement with a closed rhinoplasty (incisions through the inside of the nose) and a Weir excision (trimming the outside nostril width).  She is happy with the result because it fits her

The patient is a woman who is dissatisfied with her broad nasal tip as well as her dorsal hump (bump on her nose).  She benefits from a open rhinoplasty.

The first patient is a woman with an “A” cup breast and thin post mastectomy coverage ,  who presents for delayed reconstruction.  The form stable implant allows for increased size and minimal to no rippling.  Note how the implant shows a tapered upper pole look versus the sharp drop off of the expander. The second patient

The patient is a young woman who disliked her dorsal hump, but had no concerns about her nasal tip.  She benefited from a closed rhinoplasty  with no visible incisions and minimal disruption of the tip.  An incision on the inside of the nose was made for access to the dorsum so that it could be

The patient is a mother who was dissatisfied with her breast volume loss and abdominal laxity with weight gain post pregnancy.  She had breast augmentation and abdominoplasty with flank liposuction as outpatient surgery at our in-house surgery suite.

The patient is a woman in her 60’s who had silicone implants placed above the pectoralis muscle decades earlier.  She had distortion secondary to contracture.  The patient had capsulectomy (removal of the calcified shell around the implant) and placement of a new implant in the below muscle plane.

The patient is a young man with gynecomastia.  His stage III breast growth required a significant open approach, but other cases may only require liposuction with or without smaller incisions.

The patient is a woman in her 30’s who had bilateral mastectomies with delayed expander placement approximately 6 weeks after.  Several months later, she went on to expander removal with exchange for a permanent silicone implant and nipple areolar reconstruction.  Excellent preservation of the skin envelope by the general surgeon at mastectomy makes her overall