Dr. Kaplan on Instagram Live with New Beauty

This is huge and you don’t want to miss it! The award winning, widely read self-care and cosmetic “bible,” ie NewBeauty Magazine will be interviewing Dr. Kaplan on Instagram Live! Sarah Eggenberger, editor-at-large of NewBeauty and Dr. Kaplan will discuss all things breast augmentation.

Dr. Kaplan is thankful to Breast Implants by Mentor for making this possible behind the scenes. So where will you be on Tuesday, November 10th at 9am PST? The same place you always are – looking at your phone! Just make sure you’re tuned to @newbeauty or @breastimplantsbymentor on Instagram Live for the details on breast augmentation.

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Chrissy Teigen becomes the latest famous person to open up about getting a boob job. She joins the ranks of Kaley Cuoco, Victoria Beckham and Anna Faris. For what it’s worth, does it really matter anymore? It’s not shocking and that’s a good thing.

Chrissy Teigen and her boob job

As time passes, the news of someone getting a boob job has lost its sheen as “big news!” The truth is, it’s no longer taboo to get a boob job. This is partly due to the #metoo movement. Obviously the #metoo movement is about someone abusing their position of power in how they treat women. But in a #metoo-adjacent sense, if anyone comes off as sexist or treating a woman differently for feeling “feminine,” they’re very quickly shut down. Plus, being critical of what someone else does with their body is just ridiculous. Who cares what you think about so-and-so’s choices?!

As far as Chrissy Teigen is concerned, she got a boob job a little over a decade ago. She says that she got implants to make her breasts perkier when modeling bathing suits. Many women feel this way. They want implants simply to help fill out clothes, so they fit better.

In the article above, she appears someone despondent that she wants them out and will have to get a lift now. For what its worth, she need not feel this way. She doesn’t need a lift only because she had implants. She’s had two children and that causes breasts to become pendulous. If she ever wants perky breasts again, implant or not, she would need a lift anyway. No need to blame herself.

And in a twisted sort of way, the fact that a celebrity getting a boob job isn’t as big as deal as it once was, shows society is maturing as a whole!

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Breast asymmetry correction is one of the most complex breast procedures around. The complexity is due to the myriad of ways to fix the asymmetry. It’s not just a matter of size, but also of shape. And then you have to get the nipple in a symmetrical position!

Video of breast asymmetry correction

As the video shows, there are many steps to correcting breast asymmetry. First you must identify the problem. Is it only a size discrepancy or a ptotic (droop) issue. Based on the discrepancy, the surgical plan will proceed from there.

The key to success is ensuring a cohesive plan preoperatively. Having a range of breast implants available to improve size symmetry is important. But you may also need to use different techniques for the breast lift to improve symmetry between the nipple position.

This means a “donut” lift to reduce the size of one areola to match the other. It may mean a “lollipop” lift to shift the areola northward. Or it may mean a more extensive “anchor” lift to shorten the distance between the nipple to the inframammary fold. Again, there are many variables and steps to achieving success. Experience matters.

And while experience is key, obviously cost is a realistic matter to take into account. To check pricing on this procedure from Dr. Kaplan, click here.

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Reasons to change your breast implants

YES – You have saline implants and want to switch to silicone for a more natural feel (but you don’t have to)
YES – Capsular contracture caused the implant to deform
YES – You feel pain
YES – Your implant has moved or turned
YES – Rupture
YES – You want a different size

Reasons you don’t need to change your breast implants

NO – Because it’s been 10 years and someone told you that you need to change them every 10 years. The reason people believe this is because one study said that 20% of breast implants have a problem at the 10-year mark…but that means that 80% are fine. So you don’t automatically need to change them.
NO – Because they look fine
NO – You’re still happy with them

Video Removing saline implants

To check the cost of breast augmentation or breast augmentation revision from Dr. Kaplan, click here.

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There’s nothing more angst-ridden for a patient (and their plastic surgeon) than waiting for breast implants to drop. But as the case below demonstrates, breast implants will drop, eventually. It may take some time and in rare cases, a revision may be necessary to get them perfectly symmetrical. But in all cases, the implants will drop at least to some extent.

Breast implants will drop…eventually

After inserting breast implants, the breast skin needs time to acclimate and relax. That’s why it takes time for implants to drop. And as anyone that’s had the procedure knows, the implants start out high and start to settle, or “drop and fluff” as many patients say.

But if they do drop unevenly, a revision surgery may be necessary. However, it’s important for the patient to recognize that rushing back to surgery may not be needed. As in the example below, the patient continued to notice progress over weeks and months. If the implants had stopped along the way, a revision would have been appropriate. But there was always progress and the implants continued to drop.

Until finally, they end up looking great!

Progression video: breast implants will drop

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Breast augmentation is one of the most popular cosmetic procedures out there. And since cosmetic surgery is real surgery, some complications are inevitable. Breast augmentation revision is a specialty unto itself within plastic surgery. One such complication that requires a breast augmentation revision is bottoming out of the implant as shown above.

What is ‘bottoming out’ in breast augmentation?

In an ideal situation, a breast implant sits behind the breasts in perfect symmetry. However, if the fold under the breast, the inframammary fold, is disturbed, the implant can bottom out. The fold is usually very adherent to the chest wall.

Bottoming out can occur if the fold is inadvertently released from the chest wall. This can occur if the implants are too large and put too much pressure on the fold, such that it pulls away from the chest wall. And sometimes the fold must be lowered to accommodate a larger implant. If that’s done, the fold will bottom out if the fold is not affixed back to the chest wall with a suture.

If bottoming out occurs, there are several options. One option is to create a new pocket. However, two things are important when doing this. First, the implant should remain under the muscle so the implant continues to be camouflaged and look as natural as possible. Secondly, the pocket needs to be strong to minimize a recurrence of bottoming out.

Neosubpectoral pocket video

That’s where the neosubpectoral pocket technique comes in. This is a confusing concept so the video below will help. But essentially, the physician uses the naturally occurring scar tissue around the implant (the capsule), to help make the new pocket. A new pocket is made between the muscle and the capsule and the implant is placed here. That way, the implant is still under the muscle and on top of the capsule.

Using mesh to treat a bottoming out breast

The alternative, is to use mesh or some other material to secure a new inframammary fold. In this particular case below, GalaShape from Galatea was used to secure the new fold for a very robust repair.

To check pricing on a breast augmentation revision, click here.

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