Ballerina Boobs: Why More Women are Choosing Smaller Breast Implants to Fit an Active Lifestyle
Posted August 29, 2025
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Breast Implant Types: Choosing the Best For You
Posted May 08, 2025
By Dr. Chris Patronella I would like to talk to you today about the different implant types. It can be very confusing to manage the vast array of implants that we have available for breast augmentation. It can be a saline implant or a silicone implant. There are various profiles to consider, everything from […]
Read MoreImproving the Shape and Fullness of Sagging Breasts without Implants
Posted April 14, 2025
By Dr. Chris Patronella In many circumstances, I will see a patient in a consultation who has sagging breasts and thinks she needs breast implants to restore fullness to the upper portion of the breasts, when, in fact, I will recommend no implant because I think I can restore a nice breast shape without it. […]
Read MoreCorrecting Sagging Breast Implants that Fall to the Side
Posted September 11, 2024
By Dr. Chris Patronella
Read MoreWhy More Women are Replacing Breast Implants with Fat Grafting and a Breast Lift
Posted September 11, 2024
By Dr. Chris Patronella One of the more common things that I’m seeing in my practice today is women who are more inclined to step away from breast implants—the traditional method of breast augmentation. Many women, as they get older, decide that their priority is feeling better and feeling more comfortable. Oftentimes, there is […]
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Mini Tummy Tuck Surgery: Plastic Surgeon Dr. Patronella Rarely Recommends It
Plastic Surgeon Dr. Chris Patronella One reason why I don’t favor mini tummy tuck surgery in most of the women I see who desire improvement of the abdomen after childbirth is this the lower abdomen can be flattened, but it would disproportionally affect the unpaired upper abdomen by leaving a bulge in the upper abdomen, […]
Learn MoreMommy Makeover Surgery: Why It’s One of Dr. Patronella’s Favorite Procedures to Perform
By Dr. Chris Patronella Women make a tremendous sacrifice when they have children—a sacrifice that involves their body and their time. And oftentimes, after having children, the body isn’t the way it used to be. It can be very disheartening for a women to know what they had before and to see what they see […]
Learn MoreDiastasis: Why You Can Still Look Pregnant Years After Giving Birth and the Solution to Fix It
By Dr. Chris Patronella Introduction In the patients’ preoperative photos featured in this video, the abdominal appearance is very round and protuberant. No exercise in the world is going to fix this. But it can be surgically-corrected in a tummy tuck procedure. In the patients’ postoperative photos you can see how effective the tummy […]
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