Saline vs Silicone Breast Implants

There’s an opinion asserted by breast implant manufacturers and by many plastic surgeons that silicone gel breast implants are better than saline breast implants. In my opinion, “It ain’t necessarily so.” I’ve performed more than 7,000 breast augmentation surgeries, many of them with saline implants. My patients who chose saline have reported a high degree of satisfaction; it’s been rare for a woman to request that I change her saline implants to silicone. Silicone gel implants may be stealing the spotlight, but saline breast implants still have much to offer. Here are seven...

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“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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