Last Sunday, Steve Blow wrote a column about breast augmentation with fat grafting in the Dallas Morning News. One of the only Dallas plastic surgeons to offer this innovative procedure, Dr. Schwartz was interviewed and quoted in the article. If you missed the story, you can read it here.
We recently introduced breast augmentation with fat to Dallas. The obvious beauty of this procedure is that it lets you take fat from unwanted places and use it to enlarge your breasts — without any implants. Your breasts get bigger while your love handles, tummy, etc. get smaller.
In this post I’ll explain how the procedure works. There are three steps: (more…)
For years, patients have been asking me the question, “can’t you take the fat from here (and they would point to their tummy, love handles, or buttocks) and put it here (pointing to their breasts)?” Well, finally, finally, finally the answer to that question is, “yes.”
That means I can now remove the fat from the places you don’t want it…and use it to enlarge your breasts. You get fuller, larger breasts — without any implants — and a leaner figure at the same time.
Your plastic surgeon lays out a bunch of breast implants on the table in front of you. He asks you which size you like. You point to your favorite. That’s the implant he uses. Do you get the result you were hoping for? Not very likely.
I am stunned and amazed that anyone actually does this. Yet I see it on plastic surgery TV shows. And I’ve heard of it being done here in Dallas. It does not work.
You cannot choose a breast implant by looking at it. (more…)
In the last post, we saw how choosing breast implants by naming a cup size is, at best, a guessing game that can lead to disappointing results. With this next method, things only get worse. I can sum this one up quickly – trying to find the right size breast implant by putting implants in your bra completely, totally, absolutely does not work. In, fact it’s almost guaranteed to get you the wrong size. (more…)
In my last breast augmentation post, I said I would next explain a method for finding the right size breast implants. Before we do that, let’s discuss some methods that don’t work. This is important because these are the most commonly-used sizing techniques. And they often lead to the wrong size breast implants.
Here’s how a typical sizing conversation goes: (more…)
Dr. Schwartz explains the important benefits of placing your breast implants underneath your pec muscle. This is true for both silicone gel and saline breast implants. (more…)
This is a video clip from Dr. Schwartz’s radio show, “Plastic Surgery Today.” Dr. Schwartz discusses the pros and cons of the different incisions used for placing breast implants. The inframammary (breast fold), areolar (nipple), axillary (underarm), and umbilical (belly-button or TUBA) options are all reviewed. (more…)
Because they’re too big. Yes, there are other things that can cause not-so-pretty breast augmentation results – bad implant positioning and capsular contracture, for example. But 9 times out of 10, really fake-looking breasts like in the picture (not my work, by the way) come from implants that are too big for the woman. (more…)
These are additional pictures of the breast implant patient I described in the last post. (more…)
