A ^Retired Plastic Surgeon's Notebook

Seattle Plastic Surgeon blabbers on and on (again) about her favorite operation. One reason that breast lift a.k.a mastopexy is my very favorite operation is the variety of breast lift techniques that can treat many different issues with breast shape.  Breast lift can do many things to improve the appearance of the breast.  Obviously, breastContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon is happy with her long term fat transfer to the breast results. This week I saw one of my very first fat transfer to the breasts patients.  I was delighted to see her and to get this three year follow-up.  I beg my fat transfer patients to come in once a yearContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon performs a non-surgical breast lift in the exam room in 72 seconds! Recently I had a lady come in who really, really wanted to know what HER breasts would look like after a breast lift.  Showing her photos of ladies with similar breasts wasn’t quite enough.  She wanted to look in theContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon explains how different breast implants influence breast shape. Take a look at these different breast shapes.  It is important to know what type of shape a patient prefers when doing a breast augmentation consultation.  The size and shape and projection of breast implants influences the final shape of the breast.  Other factorsContinue reading…

Breast implants vs. fat transfer for breast enlargement.  Seattle Plastic Surgeon compares the two operations. I have been doing fat transfer to the breast for about three years now.   When I started practice in 1991, fat transfer to the breast was dismissed as ineffective.  And indeed it was because the technique did not lend itself toContinue reading…

Sientra Textured Breast Implants may be an advance in the continuing battle against breast implant capsular contracture. The breast implant business is a funny one.  Implants come and go and then come back again and then there’s something new that becomes old that is reconsidered or tweeked and then comes back into use and so it goes. Continue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon riffs on the possible link between gynecomastia and marijuana use. Okay, full disclosure here.  This is just my theory.  It is based on nothing more than urban myth from my high school days and wishful thinking. The yearly procedural statistics published by the American society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) recently came out andContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon reassures her patients that breast implants usually do not interfere with athletic endeavors. Many of my breast implants patients are very physically active and the effect of breast implants on athletic performance is a common question. Except for the world class athlete, breast implants won’t likely interfere with even vigorous sporting activities likeContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic surgeon blogs about one of her pet peeves – Big breast implants and a Benelli (circumareolar or donut)  lift done to avoid a full breast lift. I do alot of breast revision surgery and I see at least one patient a month who had the operation shown on the left who is unhappy with theirContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon explains what causes a double bubble deformity in the implanted breast.  I saw two patients this week with the so-called double bubble.  Both of these ladies had implants that were over 10 years old and both had experienced some sagging in their natural breasts. The double bubble occurs when time and gravity resultContinue reading…