Simply put, five simple measurements, used exactly as described in our scientific publications, deliver the lowest reoperation rates and the best long-term outcomes without uncorrectable tissue deformites.  When surgeons use some, but not all of the measurements or do not follow the entire system...

I rapidly realized the necessity to include a third dimension—tissue stretch—to more accurately define the optimal volume to fill a specific patient’s breast, and the TEPID System^TM evolved.  Optimal implant volume is determined by the width of the existing breast (measured by base wid...

Sixteen years ago, I introduced the first measuring system to help surgeons and patients make better, more logical decisions about implant size and selection.  A quick look at two decades of previous data, with more than 20% of augmentation patients having additional operations within 3 years m...

First, our most sincere thanks to all who have been so incredibly supportive and caring.  Your thoughts and prayers have helped immensely.

Terrye is progressing slowly, but steadily.  On Saturday, October  3, the day after the injury, surgeons performed a partial vitrectomy (remove...

Today, the FDA released the results of its lengthy and detailed investigation and analysis about a possible association between breast implants and an extremely rare type of lymphoma called ALCL.  This investigation by the FDA has been ongoing for almost a year, as experts from the FDA a...

Early in your interaction with a surgeon’s office, ask the following questions:

• “What will my recovery be like, and when can I return to normal activities.”  If you can’t return to full, normal activities within 72 hours, for any reason, you won’t be experiencing optimal recovery....
  
  

In the world of breast augmentation, “rapid recovery” has become a marketing buzzword on surgeons’ websites and in surgeons’ marketing materials.  Large numbers of plastic surgeons worldwide advertise and promote “rapid recovery” to patients and the media.  But what exactly is “rapid recovery”; h...

I have personally taken a very strong position against fat injection into the breast for breast augmentation in plastic surgeon professional education forums and other communications to colleagues for the following reasons:

1) Currently, there is insufficient scientific evidence fro...

One of the most common questions we are asked by patients (and some surgeons) is, “If you have published the processes and techniques that enable patients to go to dinner the evening of surgery and have the lowest reoperation rates in the scientific literature, why don’t more surgeons offer patie...

If you’re considering breast augmentation, at some point you’ll probably wonder, “How painful is it? How long does it take to recover?” And if you’re normal, anything that sounds as if it could decrease the pain and shorten recovery should sound pretty good….until you know (thank you Paul Harve...