“Can you fix my tuberous breasts?”

Dr. Ted Eisenberg Corrects Tuberous Breasts With a New Simpler, Safer, One-Stage Procedure It’s a question that women sometimes ask when they come in to Dr. Ted Eisenberg’s office for a cosmetic breast surgery consultation. They are asking about a congenital condition in which breasts might be longer and narrower, rather than round. The areolas may be puffy, there might be a lack of skin under the nipple, and the fold under the breast (the inframammary fold, or IMF) might be higher than usual. While plastic surgery websites and Internet forums describe a complicated approach to correcting...

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic – at Work and at Home

How did COVID-19 affect my professional and my personal life? Dr. Ted Eisenberg wrote about his experience in the Sept. issue of the Journal of the POMA.  On Tuesday, March 17, as I was seeing prospective cosmetic breast surgery patients in my Philadelphia office, I got a call from Nazareth Hospital: Starting immediately, all elective cosmetic breast surgeries were suspended. The restart date was unknown. The hospital wanted to maintain capacity and supplies for the anticipated increase in COVID-19 patients. This meant I had to notify all of the women who were scheduled for surgery for the...

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