Beauty and Biology, they really are linked. See why you have a fundamental need to look good, because it increases the chances of passing on your genes to the next generation! Beauty is all about biology after all!

Breast implant infections are rare complications of surgery. Usually, this means that the implant has to be removed for several months before it can be re-inserted. However, there is a special technique that can sometimes be used to benefit patients with this problem.

You can have a ‘free’ consultation with my highly experienced, highly trained Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Registered Nurses who can provide you with valuable, unbiased information. These nurses have been trained by me and have many years of experience in the clinic AND in the operating room. They have seen thousands of patients go through the process from the initial consultation, through the surgery and recovery periods, to years and years of followup care, and they know what works. They can offer you some practical woman to woman information, and they can show you photographs of other patients (who have agreed to allow their photos to be shown) but they cannot make a diagnosis for you (that is, after all, my job!!). They are paid a salary, not a commission, so they do NOT have an incentive to book you for something that you don’t want. They are NOT sales people, [Read more...]

Hyaluronic Acid (HA) Although the name is scary, hyaluronic acid (HA) is actually the name given to a natural compound found practically everywhere within the human body. It was first described many years ago by Meyer and Palmer, examining the jelly found inside the eyeball. The jelly like substance in the eye is primarily composed of hyaluronic acid, after which it was named (hyalos means vitreous in Greek, and thus the vitreous humor in the eye was named for this). It is also found in the skin, and its function there is to maintain the softness and moisture in the skin, and in the cervix, where it forms the mucous plug that must be penetrated by semen to effect pregnancy. In fact, hyaluronic acid has many functions in the human body apart from its physical properties of maintaining and bonding water. That is why we often recommend treatments with HA’s [Read more...]

Please note that I have NEVER used PIP brand implants on my patients, ever!