The history of breast augmentation
For those trivia freaks ………….. here is an interesting small piece on where breast augmentation began ……. “The desire for women to have larger breasts has been present long before implants. The first reported case was in 1895, when Austrian-German surgeon Vincenz Czerny removed a benign fatty tumor from a female patient’s lumbar region and [...]
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Why are we obsessed with breasts?
“Perhaps it’s the allure of the forbidden. As Jerry Seinfeld put it, if women kept their heads covered instead of their breasts, we’d all be rushing to the corner store to pick up the latest copy of “Heads Illustrated.” But that doesn’t explain why women are equally fixated. Despite the recession, breast augmentation was the [...]
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Breast Augmentation – Things you didn’t know
Plastic surgery has made major changes in the world we live in. Not only is it helping people to overcome and improve their self-esteem by giving them the bodies and faces they’ve always wanted, it has made several impressive breakthroughs when it comes to guiding people past disfiguring diseases and injuries and back into a [...]
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Medical assistance on the way to Samoa
The “Samoa Observer” has reported on the imminent arrival of an Interplast medical team to Samoa. Dr Benjamin Norris of Silkwood Medical is part of this AusAID funded team that will be conducting Plastic and Reconstructive surgery from the 4th – 11th August. Read the article here …………..
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New technique increases breast size using patients own fat
A plastic surgery procedure in which the patient’s own fat is transplanted to the breasts ….. used along with treatment to expand the breast tissue before surgery …… can achieve a twofold increase in breast size, according to a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official journal of the American [...]
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Stem Cell Advances & the Future of Breast Implants
Will breast implants become obsolete? Will stem cell therapies soon play a major role in how breast reconstructions are performed after mastectomy? How wounds and wrinkles are treated and how we age? These and other topics will be discussed at the Technology Innovation in Plastic Surgery (TIPS) conference in San Francisco this month. Read more [...]
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Brits are marking their boob job anniversaries with birthday-style celebrations
A recent news story reported that busty British women are finding another way to celebrate their body confidence by throwing “boobirthdays” to mark the anniversay of their breast augmentation surgery, in a bid to demonstrate the positive effect it has on their lives. Read the story here ……
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Breast Augmentation the most common procedure for 2010
The latest study from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) shows nearly 9.3 million cosmetic procedures were performed in the US in 2010, while breast augmentation was the most popular surgical procedure. Dr. Benjamin Norris , a plastic surgeon from Sydney’s Silkwood Medical comments on the Trans Umbilical Breast Augmentation (TUBA), a new [...]
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Boo Boobs
In the early 90′s, a very pretty but otherwise unremarkable young blonde became an international pin-up sensation for her role in an unremarkable TV show, Baywatch. This show also became an international sensation, it could be said, on the back of this young blonde’s front. Unfortunately it didn’t quite work for Tori Spelling. Dr. Benjamin [...]
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Breast Health
Health Smart online April 2011 ……….. “Breast expert Dr. Benjamin Norris of Silkwood Medical recommends that women drink as much H2O as possible, and cut down on caffeine intake, if they wish to reduce fluid retention and breast pain around period time.” Read the article here …………
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