In recent months, plastic surgery has turned its attention to the effort to create more objective standards for breast augmentation results. One earlier effort established “standards” for the shape of the ideal breast. A more recent effort looks at the impact of the type of breast implant on breast shape after breast augmentation. The study looked at relatively small sample sizes of women receiving round breast implants and anatomic…

Last week, buxom actress Jennifer Love Hewitt revealed a nightmare she had about losing her breasts. She said she was trying to work when someone put tubes in her breasts and began making them smaller. She cried out “Guys, don’t take them away!” Hewitt has suffered significant manipulation of her breasts in the public advertising campaign for her new series The Client List. The racy…

Tissue expansion with an external expander can increase the survival rate and therefore predictability of breast augmentation with fat grafting, according to a study published in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Fat grafting seems for many women to be a valuable alternative to using breast implants for breast augmentation, but the technique is…

Last month we had the long-awaited approval of gummy bear breast implants. Believed imminent since at least 2007, the FDA surprised many people by taking so long to approve the implants, then surprised others by approving them so suddenly. “Gummy bear” breast implants, more properly known as form-stable silicone breast implants, received their nickname because of their firm but yielding texture. Think of fresh gummy…

As noted in our previous blog, gummy bear breast implants have long been anticipated, partly because it was believed they would be safer, but also some believed they might give better results. Looking at the results of the pre-approval clinical studies and comparing the results of the Sientra gummy bear breast implants with previous studies of Mentor silicone gel breast implants, it seems the results…

When breast implants were first invented 50 years ago, there was only one manufacturer, one model, and only three sizes: 210 cc (about 7/8 cup), 270 cc, and 340 cc. The 340 cc model was nicknamed “The Burlesque,” and its inventors thought it would only be used “in very large women or certain burlesque queens or strippers desiring an exaggerated augmentation,” according to remarks they…

With Kansas University in the championship game for the NCAA men’s tournament tonight, attention has turned not only to the men of Kansas University, but to the women, with the twitter hashtag #KUBoobs spiking in popularity among Jayhawk fans and men everywhere. In the twitter trend, female KU fans are supposed to take pictures of their breasts in a KU t-shirt. Nudity is not encouraged,…

When breast implants were withdrawn from the market temporarily, it was to investigate a possible link between silicone and breast cancer. Research has shown that there is no link, but now breast implants are being designed to go one better. Not only will breast implants not cause cancer, they may prevent it. New breast implants are being designed to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer…

With the NFL draft coming next month, it’s time to start thinking about football again, and for men and women fans of the Philadelphia Eagles it’s also time to think about the Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders, too. Cheerleader tryouts are in progress, with the semi-final round taking place this week. As ambassadors for the NFL and representatives held up as an ideal of feminine beauty, cheerleaders…

Statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), one of two major plastic surgery organizations in the US, shows that breast augmentation has lost its briefly-held title as the most popular plastic surgery procedure in the US, falling to number 2 in 2011, after liposuction. According to the ASAPS statistics, there were about 9.2 million cosmetic procedures performed in the US last year, including surgical and…