Expert Advice on Breast surgery - Q & A with Dr. C - silicone gel breast implant

Q.What is the biggest breast implant made in the USA?

A. The largest silicone gel breast implant available in the USA is 800 ccs. The biggest saline implant manufactured in the US is 800 cc’s, but can be over filled to 1200cc’s.

Expert Advice on Breast surgery Q & A with Dr. C - breast implants

Q. Do the breast implant companies warranty their products?

A. Yes the breast implant manufacturers do have different warranties for their products. Here are the implant warranty options from Mentor.

Lifetime Product replacement – This applies to all mentor breast implant patients. This warranty provides that regardless of the age of the implant, when confirmed deflation or rupture, they are eligible for 1 to 2 no charge replacement breast implants of any size in a similar style.

*The Mentor Advantage is free and for all patients who have Mentor saline-filled and silicone gel-filled breast implants. This implant warranty offers a Lifetime product replacement policy. And for implants up to 10 years old mentor will pay up to $1200.00 financial assistance for Or, Supplies, Anesthesia, etc.Free contralateral implant replacement upon surgeon’s request.

***The Mentor Enhanced Advantage – This is optional. This warranty is for both saline-filled and silicone-filled breast implants and to be eligible, there is an enrollment fee of $100.00 within 45 days from surgery. This warranty offers Lifetime product replacement policy and for implants up to 10 years old they will offer up to $2400.00 financial assistance for Or, Supplies, Anesthesia, etc.Free contra lateral implant replacement upon surgeon’s request.

Expert Advice on Breast surgery Q & A with Dr. C

Q. What if one of my breast implants deflates?

A. Implant deflation is one of the known risks of breast surgery. The breast implants today are carefully manufactured with stronger outer shells and improved design to avoid implant deflation. There is however, no guarantees that an implant will or will not deflate. In my practice I see very few ruptures, but the deflations I do see are mostly of textured saline breast implants. If a patient does have a rupture I recommend they be reoperated on soon after the deflation before the breast pocket closes down. Because the implant manufacturer recognizes the potential of implant deflation they will provide the patient with a replacement implant or implants and pay $1200.00 towards supply and operating room expenses if the rupture happens within 5 years of the initial surgery. They offer a lifetime replacement on the breast implants and this will be deducted off your overall costs. Depending on the patient some opt to have both implants removed and replaced with new ones.

Q and A with Dr. Corbin - breast reduction

1. Q. I had a breast reduction in December 2004 by another surgeon for all the normal reasons, rashes, shoulder dents, sagging, etc.

It has been two years since my reduction, the swelling is gone, the scars are faded and I barely fill a B cup. I find myself not feeling as feminine or as sexy as I used to and miss the way I used to look and the looks I used to get. I am not looking to be abnormally large, but would like to be on the larger side of normal like I was before the pregnancy, a full 36D.

Things I don’t like about the reduction; the overall size is too small and they have a very flat appearance. There are creases and skin bulges along my sides, no real definition of the sides of the breasts and a large dent on the side of my left breast, the nipples point up, and no cleavage. I appreciate I will never have the breasts I did when I was twenty, but do believe augmentation could improve my appearance.

What I would like to get out of an augmentation; larger size, more cleavage, possibly improving my sides, nipples pointing forward, and a more natural youthful appearance. I have pictures of myself I can send.

A. Thank you for contacting my office. I see out of town patients on a regular basis.

Obviously pictures are worth a thousand words and they would help me to evaluate your needs. You can E-mail them to me or send them regular mail. Meeting and examining you would obviously be better. Getting the operative note from the MD that performed your reduction would also be helpful and might help prevent future problems during surgery.

As a general statement though there is certainly no reason why you can't have a breast augmentation and there is probably a very good chance that your breasts will obtain a more youthful shape with surgical modifications to their present appearance that I can do at the time of your augmentation.

Call the office for an appointment and ask to speak with Dee. Many times we arrange the consultations so that I see the patient on one day and arrange surgery for the next or following day, thereby simplifying their travel. Out of town patients need to have their lab work and medical clearance for surgery prior to their consultation/pre operative appointment.

I look forward to meeting and helping you.

Call (714) 671-3033 for an appointment

FHCMD

Well I finally posted the material I have been carrying around in my Iphone. 2 weeks have passed since I actually wrote the last post , just added, and all is well. We have had a very busy two weeks seeing and scheduling patients for breast augmentations, abdominoplasties and facial procedures.

I am also amazed at how many people I see that need to be revised after bad experiences elsewhere. Sometimes I think I only treat others complications. I have become a master at redoing someelse's initial failed rhinoplasty or breast lift. It also seems that I see an awful lot of patients with capsular contracture who have lost faith in their previous surgeon or surgeons.

I feel badly for these patients because they have already spent alot of money and havn't gotten what they want. At the same time it is unrealistic to think that it is somehow easier to get it right the second or third time around so because the patient has spent alot of money already with someone else they should not have to pay me atleast what they initially spent for the first procedure. I feel for them but I have too have to survive in these hard economic times.

The truth is though that it is not about the money but the satisfaction in helping someone. Now I am trying to figure out how I can get my surgical team to Haiti and yet not disappoint the people I have already scheduled for surgery here!

My thoughts as a Plastic Surgeon

December 24th 2009



While watching Julie &Julia on a plane back from Canada I have gotten the great idea to do a plastic surgery blog. I will do a total incite into my mind as it relates to my specialty – fears and triumphs. I will have to fight to make time. Hopefully it will give people a view of what goes through the minds of MD’s that care – how our concerns go far beyond the surgery and how we are always on edge, always thinking the worst when it rarely or never occurs.

December 28th 2009
Well I took some time off and got the chance to spend some family Christmas time in my new home in Canada. I operated literally to the day I left as patients wanted to use holiday time for surgery. Of course that meant that I would not be close to the office if someone had a complication though all the surgeries went extremely well.
It was after Christmas and of course I got a call from a parent that her daughter who had had a septorhinoplasty and turbinate resection 6 days before wasbleeding heavily from one side of the nose, Given the choice of going to the Emergency Room and seeing an MD or going to my office and seeing my nurse they chose the latter. The “heavy” bleeding that I feared might be from the turbinates was a small ooze from a stitch that could easily be controlled. I of course was thinking and fearing the worst and it was essentially nothing. Now I am wondering what the office will have in store for me when I get back.

January 1st 2010

Surprisingly the office was great on my return and there were no problems hanging out and we were able to get through a fairly arduous surgical schedule on two days before the New Year. I was invited to a wonderful New Years Eve party near my home and just as I was really beginning to have fun and converse with friends and acquaintances, I got a page to the Emergency Room of a local hospital and spent the New Year in the operating room controlling someone’s facial bleeding. What a way to start the New Year. I got in at 2 AM atleast I have the next two days off assuming no problems.

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