Permanent Lip Augmentation

Rather than using silicone or a temporary filler, a plastic surgeon can use your own fat for lip augmentation. The procedure is similar to body contouring (link), where fat is removed from different places on your body like the belly, back and thighs. Once the fat is removed, it’s refined and then injected into your lips in various places to create the lips you want. The fat can also be injected into facial wrinkles and other place on your face to rejuvenate the skin and produce a more youthful and natural appearance.

A “butt lift” is a procedure under body contouring. To get wider hips or a rounder butt, a plastic surgeon will use liposuction to remove fat from one part of your body, refine it and then re-inject it into another part of the body by way of fat grafting. By removing fat and adding fat to different places on the body, the plastic surgeon can get a desired effect like wider hips or rounder butt.

We have seen a very low number of FDA approved silicone implants leak. Most silicone implants will end up lasting a lifetime. However, there have been many large studies (link) that have proven silicone implants are just as safe as saline. In fact, the amount of leakage is less from a silicone implant (link) than a saline implant meaning the silicone implant will keep its shape longer. This is why today most breast augmentations and reconstructions are done with silicone implants.

While there is no way to make a scar disappear completely, there are many methods available to plastic surgeons to make the scar less noticeable. The methods that a plastic surgeon would use depend on where the scar is located.

If you are considering getting plastic surgery to decrease how noticeable your scar is, you should first consult with a plastic surgeon so they can not only asses the scar for a range of treatments but explain each procedure and how it will make a scar less prominent.

Once a patient has a mastectomy and has fully healed from the procedure, they can choose to have breast reconstruction surgery. This is not considered a cosmetic procedure and all forms of health care insurance must provide coverage for breast reconstruction surgery for patients who have been treated for breast cancer.