Most people want to look younger or at least not look older.
One of the changes that occur in the body as we age is that the skin becomes less elastic and sags more. This can also occur after pregnancy or after significant weight loss. For many years, plastic surgeons have been looking for methods to tighten the skin and many machines have been tried - with poor results and often the risk of burns.
Richard Lewin – Plastic Surgeon / Renuvion Expert
For a couple of years now we have been using Renuvion which works with helium plasma which contracts tissue and tightens skin. We know it works well on the neck , upper arms and inner thighs but after I just attended a conference in Barcelona for Renuvion experts I have also seen that it works well on breasts that need a little lift, on stomachs that have wrinkles and loose skin and even buttocks that need better shape.
So glad that we can offer such a good alternative to surgery for those who don't want long scars and want to get back to work and exercise quickly.
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Many different things affect the appearance of the butt. Most people want a firm, toned butt or a larger, fuller butt. Exercise causes the large butt muscle, the Gluteus Maximus, to increase in size, and our genes and heredity are particularly important in how the butt looks. Some people have smaller butts and others have larger butts. Butt implants can help shape the butt you may have had before or desire.
The shape of the butt also varies:
A-shaped
V-shaped
Inverted heart-shaped
Cow
Aging, pregnancy, and weight loss affect the buttocks by reducing fat and muscle. The ligaments (fixed connections between muscle and skin) are also affected and become more lax. Both men and women suffer from changes that result in a smaller and more saggy buttocks.
To improve the appearance, there are several things you can do:
Exersize Of course, it provides many benefits and a firmer butt, but unfortunately it is not always enough.
When is the best time of year to have surgery? A common question we get is: – Now is not a good time to have the surgery because it is the month of menstruation?
The time in question is July-August, but it's about food and not about surgeries and wounds...
However, there are several operations where compression garments are an important part of the aftercare to achieve a perfect result and then it is difficult if it is the height of summer and a heat wave. So yes, there are operations that are suitable for different times of the year. Perhaps the most important thing is to take into account what is happening in life so that recovery and healing do not interfere with important events such as weddings, vacations, ski trips, etc.
With that said, we are now entering late summer, fall and winter and these seasons are ideal for several plastic surgeries that require compression garments. In addition, a tummy tuck , arm lift , thigh lift , facelift or breast reduction will have time to heal nicely before it is time to take off some clothes again when summer and the warm weather return. So if you are considering these surgeries, book a consultation and we will help you put together a plan for you and when surgery would fit into your life.
I am writing this blog text on the flight home from a visit to Dr. Alexander Aslani at Cirumed in Spain.
We at Elite Clinic We are constantly working to develop our technology and actively seek out the latest methods and techniques in plastic surgery. Often there are small adjustments to our own techniques that we can learn from other plastic surgeons around the world. There are always multiple methods to achieve the same goal, which I learned during my year in Australia where I worked with some of the best plastic surgeons in Perth. By knowing multiple methods for e.g. breast reduction, breast reconstruction and facelift, we can adapt the plastic surgery procedure to the physical conditions that you as a patient have, to get the best possible result.
The visit to Dr. Aslani was just such a visit. The continuous effort to be able to offer the best to you as a patient!
In the past year, a lot has been written and reported about BBL , which is an abbreviation for “ Brazilian Butt Lift .” It actually doesn’t come from Brazil, but from the USA… but let’s start with a little background on BBL.
Moving fat from an area of the body where there is excess fat to an area where there is a lack of fat is not a new idea, and the idea is understandably tempting. People tried for many years, but it was not until the 1980s that the method became accepted. Since then, it has taken more time to develop the technique to be good enough for it to be used on a larger scale. The concern was that the fat that was moved was not viable, i.e. the fat cells had broken down and did not survive. Instead, it was broken down by the body and disappeared. Since the results were not that impressive, many plastic surgeons chose to abandon the technique of moving fat on the body. However, there were plastic surgeons who continued to develop the technique and concentrated on the face where it was easier for the fat to survive because the necessary blood supply is so large. When I started at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in 2005 and met women who had suffered from breast cancer and who came to the plastic surgeon to have their breasts reconstructed, some asked “jokingly” if we couldn’t move the fat around the stomach to the chest instead. Accompanying relatives immediately expressed their interest in donating fat…. “Unfortunately, we can’t do that,” I used to reply.
A few years later, several reports appeared about how they had managed to transplant fat into breasts that had been reconstructed after breast cancer, in order to get a better result. The new successes were explained by the fact that they had learned to take better care of the fat cells and thus increase their survival after they had been moved. It was now a matter of sucking out the fat cells using a gentle method with a maximum pressure of 500 Kpa, transplanting them as quickly as possible, placing them in thin channels with a maximum of 3 mm cannulas, keeping the fat warm and eating a lot of carbohydrates. Many of these theories have since lost much of their importance, but some things are still important and that is to gently suck out the fat, transplant it back as quickly as possible, not overfill and not using local anesthesia, which reduces the survival of the fat. Some parts of the fat contain more stem cells and may have a better survival, but this is usually not so important.
Many patients who did not want silicone implants had breast augmentation with fat instead. Unfortunately, in most cases it is impossible to achieve the patients' wishes for a firmer bust with greater fullness in the upper part of the breast by moving fat. A silicone implant is needed to give a breast with a fuller upper part, but just like with women with breast reconstructions, we can combine the two techniques with very good results. Some market this as a new technique but it is not, as is clearly stated in the text above. We have been doing this for 10 years…
A few years ago, interest in transplanting fat to other parts of the body increased, especially the buttocks. Many women were tired of their flat buttocks, and when Kardashian created a new fashion for big buttocks, the demand for BBL grew in the US and Europe. Now unwanted fat could be sucked out around the stomach, hips, arms and legs and instead filled up the breasts and buttocks.
A couple of years ago, a number of cases began to be reported where patients died after BBL. Large liposuctions have always involved risks and plastic surgeons around the world have been very careful about this, but now some patients have suffered from so-called fat embolisms, which means that fat cells stop the blood flow in the lungs. The reason for this is that there are very large blood vessels in the buttocks that carry blood back to the lungs and if fat is injected into these vessels by mistake, the consequences can be severe, even leading to the patient's death.
BBL can be done safely with the right training and technique. One of the leading plastic surgeons in BBL and butt augmentation with silicone implants is Dr Alexander Aslani in Marbella. To keep up to date with the latest in liposuction, high definition liposuction (sculpting the stomach to make the abdominal muscles more visible), BBL and butt implants, I visited Dr Aslani to operate with him to see how he does it to get the best possible results with as few complications as possible and with the greatest possible safety.
For many women who want a slightly larger butt, BBL is not suitable, but a silicone implant instead gives a good result and perhaps together with a little fat. The most important thing when it comes to BBL and butt augmentation is that it is a well-thought-out and mature decision and that it is carried out at a clinic with training and experience in the procedures.
Yesterday I was invited to speak at the Jönköping Lymph and Lipoedema Society's annual meeting . Lipoedema was described a long time ago and as early as 1951, proposals were made for how this disease should be diagnosed. Despite this, the disease is not accepted within public healthcare in Sweden. It is almost exclusively women who suffer from lipoedema and the cause is still unknown. Yesterday, many of the women testified about how stepmotherly they have been treated and treated within healthcare. Certainly not out of rudeness in most cases, but probably due to ignorance combined with poor empathic ability.
Lipedema has not been scientifically studied to any great extent and the studies that do exist are not of particularly high scientific quality. Most agree that more and better studies must be conducted. Unfortunately, this takes time and many of these women suffer both physically, mentally and psychosocially. They have difficulty finding clothes that fit, sometimes cannot use boots when they go out into the woods with their children for a walk, they have pain and can have problems with oblique loads in their knees. The studies that do exist show that lipedema fat is almost impossible to reduce with diet and exercise. However, there is often an element of excess weight that can be influenced by a healthy lifestyle with good food and exercise. Pool training is often experienced as pleasant. Compression pants or support stockings can provide relief from pain and perhaps also reduce the amount of bruising, but they are unlikely to prevent the development of lipedema. Support stockings are considered to have a good effect on lymphedema, which can occur at the same time as lipedema.
There is a connection between lipedema and estrogen and the condition often starts during adolescence but also in connection with pregnancy. For many women it is of course very difficult in various social situations, depression and even anorexia occur. It is probably important to get a diagnosis and help early before obesity and more advanced forms of lipedema arise. When conservative treatment, such as compression therapy, does not help, liposuction is often the option. The volume of fat is reduced, which makes it easier to choose clothes and often the pain disappears or at least reduces. The numbness and feeling of heaviness in the legs in connection with exercise can be reduced.
Interview with Karen Herbst about lipedema and Dercum's disease. In her research, she has seen that lipedema and Dercum's disease, DD, are similar to each other, that some patients have a combination of the diseases and that obesity is another disease that many patients have. Research, education and treatment of these diseases require this to be taken into account. While more research is needed on both the diseases and treatment methods, Karen Herbst emphasizes that patients must be offered treatment, and that they need to be offered combinations of several different treatment methods as it is very individual what is best for the individual patient. Dr. Karen Herbst, an endocrinologist from the USA, lives and works in Tucson, Arizona. She is a specialist in adipose tissue diseases such as lipedema and Dercum's disease. She mainly does research but also leads a clinic with the TREAT treatment program, Treatment, Research, Education for Adipose Tissue, at Arizona University. She is also one of the researchers in the Swedish TeamDercum.
What struck me most after this evening was how difficult these women often experience their situation and how helpless they feel. For various reasons, they do not receive any real help in the publicly funded healthcare system, but their suffering is great and it is only right that their problems are taken seriously. Not infrequently, they have been treated poorly and with downright offensive comments by those from whom they have sought help.
What should be established is a multidisciplinary care with a dietician, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, personal trainer, lymphatic therapist and plastic surgeon . With joint commitment we could make a big difference! We will do what we can through our network but hope that the healthcare system will soon help all those who are unable to pay for the care that we all finance with our taxes.
