breasts

Women who consider breast implant surgery often worry about scarring. There is an obvious reason for this, as scarring can diminish the youthful, natural appearance of breasts, and cause women to become self-conscious about their appearance—defeating the purpose of breast implants in the first place. Read more

Most routine breast augmentation consultations include a thorough discussion of breast size, cosmetic preference, and implant type. There are several other issues that can become very relevant to selecting the appropriate operation for a given patient, and to prepare her for the postoperative recovery and the resulting lifestyle changes. Read more

People throw around the phrase “boob job” very casually these days, which is no surprise as breast surgery has become the most performed plastic surgery procedure in the United States. Read more

Everybody knows that your face tells a story. It tells the world a little about how old you are, how much sun you’ve gotten, and maybe even how stressed you’ve been. Read more

If you have breast implants, you might already have heard that the FDA recently connected nine deaths from a rare cancer, anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL), to those décolletage-enhancing devices. Read more

ThirdLove is a San Francisco-based underwear company that believes fit is the most important component when it comes to bras. For this reason, the company lets bra-buyers try before they buy—making them the first e-commerce company to let customers wear the product for a full thirty days before committing. Read more

Gummy bears may very well have been your favorite candy as a kid, but if you’re now considering breast augmentation, you’ll soon be talking a lot about them once again, just not the fruity, chewy edible kind. Read more

You have a size for almost everything. A shoe size, a pant size, and yes—a breast size. While you can probably sneak your way into something a little off-size if you really want to (like those purple suede boots that you just can’t live without), things will always look a little wrong if the fit doesn’t match. Read more

Ever since the American Cancer Society (ACS) issued their new Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines in 2015, my patients have been coming into my office confused about what they should do about a mammogram. Read more

Bras have been blamed and praised for almost everything from causing cancer (not true) to preventing cancer (exciting and true), to giving you bigger, sexier boobs (hey, we can try) to firming and perk-ifying your breasts while sleeping, and the reverse (apparently, it all depends): Read more

Computers are beating us at our own games, breast implants are now safe and feel real, and saunas are heated with ultra-powerful infrared light. Read more

Since the early 60s, when breast augmentation surgery came to the mass market, there have been only two options: saline vs silicone breast implants. Read more