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How Do Breast Implants Change As You Get Older?

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Here at Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery, we love to share insight from experiences at our Cherry Hill, NJ office. Since one of the most common questions recently has been regarding breast implants, we thought this would be the perfect time to provide answers.

Time and time again, patients ask Dr. Steven Davis if breast implants change as you get older. More specifically, after menopause, we notice patients tend to go through a period of changes with the appearance of their breasts.

We’ve had patients come in that have lost an implant, but we have also seen the opposite. Some patients come in to discuss their breast size getting larger, which is something we are happy to address.

If you have similar questions regarding how breast implants begin to change as we age, please feel free to give us a call or contact us directly here.

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Hi, Doctor Steven Davis at Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery. You know I love to talk to all of you about things that I’m seeing coming in more and more during my office hours.

And one of the things that I’ve seen a lot of over the past month or two, are patients that have had breast augmentation, so they have implants in, and they may have had them in for over 10, 15 years, and they’re reaching a point, a lot of the women that are going through menopause, and one of the things that they’re really concerned about are two things.

The first is, are their implants still intact? And the second thing is, are those implants losing any kind of volume? So that as they get older and older, is it gonna become more of an issue to actually take these implants out, or to do something with their breasts?

So here are the things that I’ve been telling all the patients. The first is, if they’re saline implants, they will have a tendency to just continue to deflate. Many of the times it’ll just happen instantly, where you’ll wake up one morning and patients have told me they just, everything was fine when they went to sleep, when they woke up one was up and one was flat. And that definitely can happen with a saline implant.

They’re filled with saline, and if something happens to that implant, it’s just gonna leak out and that’s gonna be the end of it. Many of the patients that do have saline implants have noticed that the implants start to lose some volume and it may be asymmetrical, where one looks like it’s been a little bit more deflated than the other.

In any of those cases, we really want to talk about getting those out and either replacing them with new saline filled breast implants, or new silicone gel breast implants. But, as I was alluding to earlier, a lot of the women that are going through menopause have noticed that all of a sudden their breasts are actually getting fuller and they don’t even need the breast implants anymore.

In that case, what I’ve been recommending is, have the patients come in, we take the implants out, again, either saline or silicone gel, and then use their own breast tissue to actually stent up their breasts and make them look like they’re perkier and more lifted.

Now there are other things that we can do with the skin if necessary, but the majority of the time, if we can use the patient’s own tissue and some of the capsule that’s been developed over the course of all these 10, 15 years, we can actually make the breast have a framework on the inside that allows us to make them look more perky and lifted.

If you’re interested in talking about this, definitely schedule an appointment and we’ll go over everything when you come into the office. It’s nice talking to you again. I’m Doctor Steven Davis at Davis Cosmetic Plastic Surgery.

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Looking for New Date Night Ideas? Try Plastic Surgery (Seriously)

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What did you gift your significant other for Valentine’s Day: flowers, chocolates, a decadent dinner? How about plastic surgery?

A growing trend called “beauty matching” began to emerge a couple years back. It has two different interpretations. In the majority of instances, it refers to couples who book cosmetic procedures—fillers, Botox, CoolSculpting—together prior to a big event or simply to share the experience with each other.

When you think about it, beauty matching is not the stretch it may seem to be at first glance. Couples tend to be like-minded people who have similar priorities. Why wouldn’t that extend to how they go about improving their appearance?

Sometimes, a partner is inspired by the other’s rejuvenation and books their own version. As one person is learning about a given procedure, they’re likely also discussing it with their partner. A treatment then becomes a mutual exchange of ideas.

The other interpretation is more literal: couples who get procedures in tandem so that they can look like each other.

The benefits of beauty matching

Let’s be clear: Beauty matching needs to be a mutual decision to share the experience. Getting procedures with your partner is completely normal, even practical. Being able to offer your significant other emotional support during their recovery is a big advantage.

Having another perspective during the consultation is another plus. With so many ways to treat a given issue these days, having someone there who knows you so intimately can sometimes make it all that much easier to arrive at a decision.

So, beauty matching can be very rewarding and valuable. What it shouldn’t be is pressuring your partner, or feeling pressured, into something. Even if your partner really wants it for you, you want to do it for your own reasons.

It’s also not about getting procedures with the intent to look like each other.

How to go about it

As to what types of procedures can be matched, they’re typically aging procedures—couples are often relatively similar in age and tend to have common concerns about their appearance—but, technically, just about anything could be done together.

Generally, the procedures revolve around big life events—Botox before a wedding or liposuction before a milestone anniversary party—which is very often the case for individuals, too.

Regardless of the procedure, the key with beauty matching is communication. Before you schedule a consultation with a board-certified plastic surgeon, make sure that you and your partner are on the same page about what each of you wants from the experience. This is the rare instance in your relationship where compromise isn’t a solution.

“So, What Do I Really Need?”

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Many of our podcast topics come from interactions that happen in our Cherry Hill, NJ plastic surgery office, and this one is no different! Dr. Steven Davis takes time today to answer a common question he receives from patients, “what do I really need?” With the trends of cosmetic procedures continually changing, this question can be hard for some to answer on their own.

At our practice, we’re happy to remind patients that they don’t always need extravagant surgeries. Sometimes, what a patient really needs isn’t what they were expecting at all. We are always happy to provide solutions that are otherwise disregarded. Since a more natural look is what so many seek, limiting the amount of surgeries performed is often recommended.

Give this week’s brand new podcast to learn more about this topic! Our favorite board-certified plastic surgeon dives into several stories regarding patients that have come in with this common question. He chats about how he answers their questions, the suggestions he makes, and more.

Enjoy!

Thank you for tuning in to The Plastic Surgery Revolution as Dr. D answers, “what do I really need?” If you would like more content with Dr. Steven Davis, check out our Youtube channel. Please give us a follow on social media to keep up: Instagram / Twitter.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Tummy Tuck (Part 2)

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In my previous post (part one of this two-part series), we started our deep dive into the tummy tuck by exploring a few basic points: what the surgery’s meant to accomplish, what it entails, and what the recovery’s like.

Here, we’ll get into how to determine if a tummy tuck is right for you and, in the process, compare it to a couple of other popular body-contouring procedures, liposuction and CoolSculpting.

Is it right for you?

Tummy tucks are most commonly performed on women in their 40s and 50s, after they’ve finished having children. The reason for that can be traced to the two differentiating factors of the surgery: the muscle repair and skin removal. (Getting pregnant after a tummy tuck will stretch out the rectus muscles and the skin, essentially undoing the entire process.)

If you’re someone who has concerns about excess fat around your midsection, but not muscle separation or loose skin, or if you’re planning on having children, doctors generally won’t recommend a tummy tuck. In those instances, liposuction or a non-invasive body-contouring procedure, like CoolSculpting, may be a more appropriate choice.

Identifying which procedure is right for you can be tricky; each fills a different role. To help with that decision, seek out a board-certified plastic surgeon who’s experienced in all three forms of body contouring and try to be as clear as you can be in communicating what bothers you about your body and what your expectations are for the procedure.

How it compares

As I mentioned in my last post, a big part of the reason the tummy tuck has increased in popularity in recent years is because comparable noninvasive procedures can’t yet achieve the same results.

CoolSculpting works by freezing fat cells to kill them off, which is effective for dealing with trouble spots that no amount of diet or exercise ever seems to affect—a noninvasive procedure can usually reduce superficial fat by 25%, on average. But it won’t do anything to address the loose skin or underlying muscle separation the tummy tuck targets.

Liposuction can remove significantly more fat than noninvasive body contouring, but that’s the extent of its capabilities. In other words, it won’t tighten loose muscles, nor will it remedy loose skin.

For those for whom a tummy tuck is the most appropriate treatment, it’s still considered to be, among plastic surgeons, the gold standard of body contouring when it comes to results. Aside from the reasons mentioned up to this point, a tummy tuck, unlike many noninvasive procedures, likely won’t need to be refreshed after a few years. The results are considered fairly long-lasting—and, very often, nothing short of dramatic.