Why Breast Reduction Surgery? Breast reduction surgery is performed primarily to improve the problems resulting from enlarged and heavy breasts. It is thus an operation designed to relieve medical problems and considered a medically necessary procedure in most health care systems. The procedure addresses among other the following issues: upper torso pain syndrome, postural problems, […]
Short Scar Vertical Breast Reduction Surgery in Trinidad
Short scar vertical breast reduction surgery in Trinidad refers to operations trying to avoid the long inframammary scar in the design of the skin reduction pattern used to reduce the excess skin during breast reduction surgery in Trinidad. As short scar vertical breast reduction surgery removes by far more breast tissue than skin it relies on a certain degree of skin elasticity so that excess skin not removed during the procedure will eventually shrink down and like a glove again fit the overall reduced breasts.
Plastic Surgery – A Plastic Surgeon’s Perspective
Despite its overwhelming media presence plastic surgery continues to be the most misunderstood surgical specialty. It is my contention that this is the case because plastic surgery does not claim any specific disease (e. g. coronary artery disease in case of cardiac surgery) as its own nor does it focus on any single organ system […]
Breast Reduction Before and After Galleries
Arno R. Schleich MD: Bilateral breast reduction – East Indian, G0P0A0, Lassus/Lejour type short scar vertical breast reduction Arno R. Schleich MD: Bilateral breast reduction – East Indian, G1P1A0, Lassus/Lejour type short scar vertical breast reduction Arno R. Schleich MD: Bilateral breast reduction – Afro-Caribbean, G2P2A0, Hall-Findlay type short scar vertical breast reduction Arno R. […]
Electrical Injuries – The “Great Masquerader” in Burn Surgery
Electrical injuries comprise only a small fraction of burn injuries admitted to specialized centers. High voltage injuries may not be survivable. The flow of current through the body interferes with tissues conducting electricity on their own (nerves, heart) and expends its energy on tissues with highest resistance, the bones, causing high temperature damage from the […]
CEO Announcement: Aesthetic Medicine and Skin Therapy
I am pleased to announce the cooperation of Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery and A. M. E. Skin Care Center. A. M. E. Skin Care Center is a full service skin therapy clinic, owned an operated by Areana Emmanuel, certified aesthetician. A native of Trinidad, Areana has been intrigued with the beauty industry from a […]
Breast Reconstruction
This strategy of reconstruction uses the patient’s own tissues to shape a breast mound. There are several advantages, which make autologous reconstruction the method of choice in a variety of situations. Breast reconstruction to correct the deformities arising from breast cancer treatments (mastectomy, quadrantectomy) is a frequent request, given that one out of eight women […]
Correcting Crooked Noses and Faces
The correlation between structure and appearance is most straightforward when the skeleton is involved. Today’s case involved a young women after a motor vehicle accident more than a decade ago. The forehead was uneven, the brows in unequal position, old hardware palpable over the roof of the eye socket and the nose was crooked and […]
What is cosmetic surgery, what is reconstructive surgery, what is everything in between ?
All too often a difference is made between reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, most often to elevate the status of reconstructive surgery and lower the one of cosmetic surgery. I am a cosmetic surgeon and I do complex reconstrucive surgery. So I never could understand how someone could come up with something so artificial, neither based […]
Six Packs and the Male Abdominal Wall
A not infrequent request by male clients is the “six pack” stomach and if there is a cosmetic procedure to enhance/produce it. The look of a “six pack” stomach is created by a very well trained midline muscle group – two about 10cm wide muscles on each side of the midline running from the chest […]