Breast Augmentation

Three dimensional imaging for breast augmentation – A useful tool or just another marketing ploy? Part II

Part II – How three dimensional imaging is used in my breast augmentation practice When I see a patient in consultation for breast augmentation, I inquire as to what the patient is looking to achieve. I examine the patient and make recommendations as to what implant I think is best for them. The exact…

Three dimensional imaging for breast augmentation – A useful tool or just another marketing ploy? Part I

Part I – What three dimensional imaging systems are I have always enjoyed technology. Since I was a teenager in the early 1970’s, I loved electronics (computing wasn’t even a hobby back then). For my pre-med major in college, I studied Biomedical and Electrical Engineering at Northwestern. It was there that I obtained a…

Breast Augmentation: Achieving Better Results with Less Discomfort and Downtime

by Mark D. Epstein, M.D., F.A.C.S. Traditionally, breast augmentation is associated with a considerable amount of pain and down time, but this no longer needs to be the case. Breast implants may be placed either below or above the pectoralis major muscle (a muscle located just beneath the breast). The advantage to placing the…

Investing in yourself – Cosmetic surgery and Botox in Stony Brook, Long Island

Investing in yourself – Cosmetic surgery and Botox in Stony Brook, Long Island There are many things that we invest in. Most of the time when we think “invest” we envision a plan to take an initial financial commitment and place it somewhere so that it enhances in value. Although worthwhile, there are other…

Breast augmentation – Stony Brook, Long Island – Does breast implant surgery have to hurt?

I began my surgical residency training in 1984. Many of the plastic surgery operations performed when I began my training are still current today. It is the very nature of plastic surgery to improve and re-design surgical procedures, always looking for a way to perform a procedure with greater safety, achieve better, more natural,…

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