Fuller Breasts: Breast Augmentation 

What is Breast Augmentation? What conditions may be treated? 
Breast Augmentation creates a natural appearance of fuller breasts in both standing and supine positions.  
Depending on individual, implant may be inserted via one of the following approaches:  nipple, endoscopic, arm pit, below-the-breast, or belly-button incision.  Soft saline or silicone anatomical are placed under the breast tissues to enhance the size and shape of the natural breasts.  
The procedure takes one to two hours. Procedure usually requires general anesthesia.
EndoBreast^SM, a novel breast augmentation technique, uses more hidden endoscopic incision to places the breast implants.  The procedure affords greater symmetry, accuracy, more natural feel, and faster recovery.  This procedure may also be performed under local anesthesia, allowing greater customized individualization.

When and What Results Might Be Expected? How long does the results last?  
Immediate and dramatic improvement of breast shape and size are expected to last decades. 

What is the recovery like? When can I return to work and activities?  
Recovery usually takes one week. Moderate swelling and bruising are expected. Use of prescribed pain medicine may be necessary. Most patients return to work and regular activities either immediately or within one week.  

Any treatments to help maintain or enhance my results?  
Significant changes require further surgical shaping. 

Differences Among Breast Augmentation Techniques

 

	Arm Pit or Endoscopic	Below The Breast or Endoscopic	Nipple	Belly Button
Scar	Less	Least	Fair	Least
Saline: fluid feel   Silicon: natural feel	Saline     Silicon	Saline     Silicon	Saline	Saline
Above the muscle: more palpable			Above	Above
Below the muscle: less palpable	Below	Below	Below
Symmetry & Accuracy	Excellent	Excellent	Good	Fair
Manufacture Warranty	No	Yes	Yes	No

 

   

SAGGY BREAST: Breast Lift

What is Breast Lift? What conditions may be treated?
Breast lift surgery restores a more youthful position of the saggy breast tissue. Often breast implant may be combined in select cases.

What is the recovery like? When can I return to work and activities?
Recovery usually takes one week. Moderate swelling and bruising are expected. Use of prescribed pain medicine may be necessary. Most patients return to work and regular activities either immediately or within one week.

Any treatments to help maintain or enhance my results?
Significant changes require further surgical shaping.

NON-SURGICAL BREAST LIFT: Breast Thermage™

What is Non-Surgical Breast Lift: Breast Thermage™? What conditions may be treated?
Breast ThermageTM uses radio frequency to tighten the early saggy skin of the upper breast tissue by using electrical energy to produce collagen remodeling, growth, and fat shrinkage in select areas. Correctable conditions include early stages of saggy breast.
The procedure takes one hour. Procedure usually requires oral and/or inhalation sedation.

When and what results miight be expected? How long does the results last?
Gradual and conservative improvement of breast position over three to six months is expected to last up to one year.

What is the recovery like? When can I return to work and activities?
Recovery usually is none. Mild swelling is expected. Use of prescribed pain medicine is not necessary. Most patients return to work and regular activities either immediately.

Any treatments to help maintain or enhance my results?
Minor adjustments, maintenance, or further enhancements can often be done non-surgically with further sessions of the procedure. More extensive or permanent changes require surgical shaping.

 

NON-SURGICAL BREAST ENHANCEMENT: LipoLift Breast^SM

What is LipoLift Breast^SM? What conditions may be treated?
Want fuller breasts without implant surgery? LipoLift BreastSM may be your choice for natural breast augmentation. LipoLift Breast^SM uses one’s own harvested body fat to create one to two larger size breasts.
Suitable conditions for this procedure are for those individuals who want:

1.  modest enlargement of one to two cup size without surgical synthetic implantation
2.  “own body tissue feel” compared to saline synthetic implant
3. immediate enhancement
4. living cells nutrient rich in stem cells and growth factors
5. smoothening out palpable rippling area of synthetic implant
6. no knife incision, local anesthesia, and weekend recovery
7. additional benefit of body contouring and slimming
8. Using specialized techniques, equipment, and instrumentation,one’s own body fat is harvested and body shaped under local anesthesia. In this capacity, the fat graft cellular integrity, stem cells and growth factors are retained. Subsequently, punch openings are then made around the areola, followed by gentle, incremental placement of fat droplets within the subcutaneous layer in multiple directions. A postoperative garment is then applied. Immediate enlargement can be noticed.

The harvesting procedure takes about two to three hours, while the fat placement takes about one hour. Procedure usually requires only local anesthesia.

When and What Results Might Be Expected? How long does the results last? 
Immediate and dramatic improvement of breast shape and size are expected to last years.

What is the recovery like? When can I return to work and activities? 
Recovery usually takes one weekend. Mild swelling and bruising are expected. Use of prescribed pain medicine may be necessary. Most patients return to work and regular activities within one weekend. 

Any treatments to help maintain or enhance my results? 
For further enhancement, additional fat can be placed within several months. The use of pre- and post-procedure expansion assisted therapy such as the BravaTM system may be used as well to further augment the breast tissue. Significantly more changes require open surgical technique with synthetic implantation.

	Non-Surgical LipoLift BreastSM	Surgical Breast Implantation
“Own body” tissue feel	Excellent	Good with Silicon Fair with Saline
Effect	Modest: one to two cup size	Dramatic:  up to three cup size
Duration	Years	Decades
Depth of Placement	Under the skin	Under the breast tissue or below the muscle
Living cells with Stem Cells Growth Factors	Yes	No
Used to smooth out rippling	Yes	Possible only with implant exchange
Mammogram Needed	Yes	Yes
Number of Treatment Sessions	One to Two	One
Anesthesia	Local	General or local
Scar	Punch openings only	Knife incision
Recovery	Weekend	General: one week Local: weekend
Body Slimming	Yes	No

NIPPLE ENHANCEMENT: Nipple Lift^SM

What is Nipple Lift^SM? What conditions may be treated?
Nipple Lift^SM uses fillers such as Juvaderm to enlarge and
lift the aging nipple tissues. The more youthful protruding shape is quickly restored. Topical medicine can also be used to improve the coloration of the youthful nipple. Nipple Lift nicely complements breast enhancement surgery for the saggy or shrunken breast due to pregnancies and aging. The procedure takes less than fifteen minutes. Procedure usually requires only local anesthetics.

When and what results might be expected?
How long does the results last?
Immediate improvement of nipple over three to six months is expected.

What is the recovery like? When can I return to work and activities?
Recovery usually is none. Mild swelling is expected. Use of prescribed pain
medicine is not necessary. Most patients return to work and regular activities
either immediately.

Any treatments to help maintain or enhance my results?
Minor adjustments, maintenance, or further enhancements can often be done
non-surgically with further sessions of the procedure. More extensive or
permanent changes require surgical shaping.