The ideal candidate for liposuction is a person who is relatively young with good skin tone and localized fat deposits and who has good personal habits of nutrition and exercise.

On the one hand the poses which body builders strike during competition involve forceful contraction of well-developed pectoral muscles. This places subpectoral breast implants at a disadvantage, since the contraction of the muscle will distort the shape of the breast.

There are a few special sports where it may make sense to consider placing the implant in the subglandular plane, a space that can be developed beneath the undersurface of the breast and above the pectoral muscle.

I have many patients who are competitive skiers, tennis players, and swimmers, sports that require optimum function of the pec muscles. These patients tell me there is residual soreness and stiffness for a period of one to three months after the surgery, but that they have not experienced any long-term diminishment of their athletic performance.

In this blog I will give you an overview of the different injectible materials that our team at the Whole Beauty Institute™ utilizes to optimize facial appearance. All of these are non-surgical therapies and can be injected with a fine needle during a visit to one of our offices. When used with intelligence and artistry, these injectibles can provide our patients with a wonderful freshening of the facial appearance with very little down time. In fact, many of our patients who undergo injectible therapy return to work or social interaction within a few hours of treatment.

The High Lateral Tension Abdominoplasty is my preferred technique for restoring the tone of the abdomen. Patients come to me for this procedure because they have experienced a loss of tone of the abdominal skin, usually as a result of pregnancy or significant weight fluctuation.

If you are considering breast augmentation surgery, it is important for you to realize that breast implants alone will not solve every breast problem. If I were to describe the ideal patient for breast augmentation surgery, she would have a relatively well-toned breast structure with very little of what plastic surgeons refer to as ptosis. The word is pronounced with a silent “p” and is perhaps a gentler way of saying, “sagging” or “drooping.”