Is tummy tuck surgery right for me?
One of the main reasons why women want a tummy tuck is that they feel they look pregnant, they have no core support to their abdomen, so they feel they’ve always got a bit of a bulge that they can’t easily control and they often have excess skin. And in general it just makes them [...]What is a full abdominoplasty?
A full tummy tuck usually involves removal of a large ellipse of skin below the umbilicus, leaving a neat scar in the bikini line, and then when we’ve removed that we stitch the muscles back together which flattens off the abdominal wall and gives a nice, flat, solid tummy again, that the women don’t have [...]What is a mini-abdominoplasty?
There are a range of different types of tummy tuck that are available. Most patients, actually, are suitable for a full tummy tuck, but if someone hasn’t got a lot of excess skin, often what they’ll have is just a little roll of skin in their lower abdomen, but actually the rest of their abdomen [...]What is the recovery like after a tummy tuck?
I usually ask patients to spend at least a week at home after the surgery, taking it easy, not really moving around the house too much, not going out too much. After about a week to ten days they might want to go out, visit some friends, go shopping, but you wouldn’t be carrying heavy [...]What are the disadvantages of a tummy tuck?
The potential downsides of a tummy tuck are that there’s a large scar, it runs from hipbone to hipbone, right across the bikini line. Some women are not really prepared to accept the scar, in most patients it fades, but it never disappears, it’s always there. Also, the skin on the abdomen is detached from [...]What are the risks in an abdominoplasty?
The risks of tummy tuck are pretty much the same as any operation; so there are the anaesthetic risks, which are relatively minor. Specific to the surgery you can get bleeding under the skin following surgery and that can occasionally require a trip back to theatre to undo the sutures, stop the bleeding and re-suture [...]Am I suitable for Tummy Tuck Surgery?
The main group of patients that require a tummy tuck are women who’ve had children. The effect of pregnancy causes usually three different things. It causes separation of the rectus muscles, which are the six-pack muscles that run either side of the tummy button, causes separation of those muscles which gives a sort of central [...]Can I have Liposuction and Tummy Tuck Surgery?
Yes, liposuction as a technique is very often used in combination with other surgery. I often use it with a tummy tuck. With the tummy tuck you remove the excess skin, but sometimes you realise then that there is a bulgier fat on the waistline that upsets the end results, so we’ll often use liposuction [...]
What happens during a breast enlargement?
Breast augmentation is an operation that happens under general anaesthetic. Usually patients will come into hospital on the morning of surgery, having nothing to eat or drink the night before, they’ll meet the anaesthetist, who’ll discuss the anaesthetic with them. They’ll already have their preoperative assessment by the plastic surgery nurse usually and then they’ll [...]Which type of breast enlargement is right for me?
There are a variety of options available for breast enlargement. The most common is to use breast implants. We’ve been using breast implants for the last forty years, and they’ve mostly been silicone type of implant. It’s a bag of silicone, covered by a silicone elastomer that has a cohesive gel silicone on the inside [...]What happens during a breast enlargement?
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It’s important to realise that breast augmentation is actually a full operation. It’s requires a general anaesthetic, it involves incisions through the skin, creation of pockets for the implant, and all of these come with their own set of potential risks and complications. There are risks of just general anaesthetic as well, which relate to [...]Is a breast enlargement right for me?
The most common presentation for breast augmentation is the young 18 year old girl, or 17 year old girl, who’s hoping that her breasts would develop a bit more but they haven’t and she feels that they’re disproportionate with the rest of her body and would like to have breast implants to resolve that. And [...]What aftercare is required after a breast enlargement procedure?
Usually the patient will go home the day after surgery. In my practice we’ll take the drains out the next day and the patient will be discharged home, and I expect the patient to be quite slowed down that week. I usually recommend a full week off, so a week to ten days, and that [...]What is capsular contracture?
So because the breast implant is plastic and it’s recognised as a foreign body by the patient, the body makes a scar capsule around the implant, and that’s a natural way that the body identifies it as separate from itself and it controls the position of the implant very nicely. But in a small group [...]Can you breast feed after a breast enlargement?
Because the implant goes underneath the breast tissue, or underneath the pectoralis muscle, it doesn’t disturb the milk production by the breast. It doesn’t affect the breast ducts, it doesn’t actually affect the gland of the breast tissue. So there’s no real impact on breastfeeding at all. All patients are able to breast feed just [...]Can I get a Breast Enlargement on the NHS?
One question I’m often asked is whether patients can get breast augmentation on the NHS. It used to be available for patients with absolutely no breast development, but it is now been removed from the list of available procedures. The only time we would use breast implants on the NHS is for patients with breast [...]Do the results of Fat Transfer Breast Enlargement Last?
The problem is that not all the fat you inject survives, so probably 50-70 percent of the fat that you put in picks up a blood supply and becomes permanent fat within your breast, and then that is permanent. The remaining 30-50 percent will often dissolve away, so it can be a little disappointing in [...]Is there a link between Breast Enlargement and Cancer?
The other important question that patients want the answer to is whether silicone implants affect breast cancer? Do they cause cancer? Can they affect the identification of breast cancer? And this, once again, has also been looked at very carefully. Silicone implants appear to be the safest type of implant around, we’ve had a variety [...]What’s the Difference Between Silicone and Saline Breast Implants?
There’s quite a difference between different types of implants. The most common one we’ve had in this country, for many years, has been a silicone implant. Silicone is a gooey, plastic, clear liquid and the silicone implant is quite squidgy. It has the sort of feel of a natural breast. In the 80’s there was [...]Is Fat Transfer Breast Enlargement right for me?
I’ve now been using it for the last two years and I find that the group of patients who are younger, 18 to 20, actually really want the boost in breast volume that comes with the breast implant, and so usually they’re more suitable for breast implants. The patients that are really suitable for the [...]What are the Risks of lipofilling to the Breast?
Fat transfer for breast augmentation seems like a fantastic idea, but has been very slow to take off in the UK. The reason for that is that we’ve been concerned that injecting fat into the breast might have some adverse effects, for example: it might promote breast cancer and it might make the detection of [...]What Types of Liposuction are Available?
There are many different types of liposuction, but they all achieve the same thing, which is removing fat cells from the body. The traditional technique, the traditional, simple liposuction, is carried out by making a small, 3 mm cut in the skin, by passing a metal tube attached to a vacuum suction machine and as [...]Which Areas of the Body Can Be Treated with Liposuction?
Liposuction can be used to treat any area of the body where there is excess fat, but it’s got to be safe to pass the tube backwards and forwards to suck the fat out, so actually in the face we don’t really use liposuction, cause there are too many structures in the face that can [...]How Long Will the Results of Liposuction Last?
Patients often ask how long the effect of liposuction will last. Now, because liposuction is permanently removing fat cells, in theory the result should be permanent, but if you go and put on a load of weight, obviously it's going to upset the balance that we’ve achieved with liposuction. But actually the fat distribution should [...]How long will it take to recover from liposuction?
Recovery from liposuction is pretty straightforward. Patients usually are in overnight if they've had a fairly extensive area of liposuction, for small areas it's just a day case. They go home in a compression garment, which is like a corset that I ask them to wear day and night for six weeks. You take it [...]
How can I prepare for cosmetic surgery?
Well, preparation for surgery doesn’t require a lot, but there are some common sense things you can do to be as fit as possible for the surgery. I usually say to patients not to unduly diet before surgery, because it is important that your body has enough energy reserves to carry you through the operation [...]What is Fat Transfer Breast Enlargement?
Lipofilling as a technique has been with us for many years, in principle it involves removing fat from one area of the body, processing it and cleaning it up and then injecting it as fat graft back into another area to plump up the tissue. We’ve been using it in cosmetic facial surgery for the [...]How long to breast implants last?
Implants don’t last forever, the current generation of silicone implants that we have probably last about ten years. At some point the shell of the implant will rupture and then the shape of the implant collapses. Mostly it’s contained within the scar capsule that the body has made around the implant, so the silicone jelly [...]How does Liposuction work?
Liposuction is a very interesting surgical technique. Before I explain how it works it’s worth knowing what happens with fat cells when we put on weight. Each of us has only so many fat cells in our body, and when you put on weight those fat cells get bigger, you don’t generate more fat cells. [...]Why I work with an expert plastic surgery team
As a Plastic Surgeon what matters to me is that my patients are being well looked after, and they have got access to the right information both before, during and after their treatment. I work with a team as a result that can deliver that sort of level of communication, so I have a secretary [...]
Rhinoplasty Plastic Surgery Approach
I have a special interest in rhinoplasty and have been doing lots of rhinoplasty for the last 10 or 12 years. It has given me the chance to kind of evolve the way I deal with patients, and the way I prepare both, myself and the patient for the surgery. Most patients who want rhinoplasty […]