Aesthetic Medicine

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How can you use surplus tissue from your body to go from a 32 B to a C cup?

It is the cosmetic procedure that sounds like many women’s dream: increase the size of your breasts by up to a cup size, while taking inches off your tummy and thighs.

The operation, carried out under local anesthetic, involves the patient having fat removed during liposuction, mixed with other body cells, including stem cells, and then reinjected into the breasts. Quite common in Europe, still novel in the U.S., but unsurprisingly advocates believe this procedure will revolutionize the plastic surgery industry.

My patients are thrilled with the results, having gone from a 32B to a ‘natural looking’ C-cup.

Alternatives

Having silicone implants is not for everybody. Many women want a bigger chest but most do not want water melons. Some don’t like the idea of something alien in their breasts.

Another option to consider is injections of synthetic filler Macrolane – a procedure known as ‘the boob jab’, which can boost the breasts by a cup size. I have seen several reports of this filler turning lumpy, so there is risk of some long term side effects. Read the rest of this entry »

In Florida alone, more than 12,000 new breast cancer cases are estimated to be diagnosed in 2009. To help find a cure for the disease, thousands of men and women gathered the last weekend of October to walk 60 miles in three days, and to raise over $4 million for non-profit foundations leading the breast cancer awareness initiative. Since its inception in 2003, more than $400 million has been raised through Breast Cancer 3-Day donations, contributions and sponsorships.

Rinnova Med-Surgical & Laser Institute is still accepting applications for a free breast restoration surgery for a cancer survivor in Tampa Bay. Please help spread the word.

The walkers, many of them breast cancer survivors, started at Sand Key Park in Clearwater on Friday and walked through the Pinellas county communities of Largo, Seminole, Treasure Island and Madeira Beach to cross the finish line in Spa Beach Park in St. Petersburg.

It’s an emotional finish filled with tears.