Aesthetic Plastic Surgery - Little Rock

A: Allergan is the parent company that owns brands such as Natrelle breast implants, Botox, Coolsculpting, etc.  Inspira is the current product line of Natrelle silicone gel breast implants.  Within this product line are 5 different profiles termed low, low plus, moderate, full, extra full.  Allergan does not offer an implant that goes by the name “high profile” so it would be important to determine whether someone using the term “Inspira high profile” means full or extra full profile.

They also offer 3 different thicknesses of gel, all of which are significantly thicker, or more cohesive, than what was used 15 years ago.  Allergan considers all of their currently available gel implants as ”gummy”.  The least cohesive gel is termed “responsive”, the next is “soft touch”, and the most cohesive or thickest gel is termed “cohesive”.

A commonly used implant in my practice is catalog number SSF-345 which means smooth surface, soft touch gel thickness, full profile, 345 cc.

I hope this is helpful.

A: I have this technology and have tried 5 or 6 of these for fairly minimal sagging.  In about half of them I ended up doing a standard mastopexy a year later.

A: Typically when we morph nose images for patients, we tend to underdo it so as not to give false promises.  Anyone can make your nose perfectly straight on front view with morphing or Photoshop software.  However the real question is whether that can be achieved surgically.

I believe you would be better served by viewing before and after photos of crooked noses on the surgeon's website and choose accordingly.

A: This is something that would need to be decided between your gastroenterologist and plastic surgeon.  Interestingly, I recently performed abdominoplasty on the wife of a gastroenterologist and he told me that sometimes very early after a tummy tuck the colonoscopy is slightly more difficult from a technical standpoint as it is more difficult to distend the colon during the exam.