Posted June 28, 2024 in Body Lift, Buttock Lift, True Form Body Contouring®
By Dr. Chris Patronella One of my favorite procedures in addition to abdominoplasty, the True Form Tummy Tuck®, is something called a lower body lift, also known as a buttock lift. It’s a procedure whereby the extra loose skin in the area above the buttocks is removed, and the buttock and outer thigh area is […]
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Posted June 20, 2024 in Uncategorized
By Dr. Patronella I am often asked why I do things a certain way. A technique I use may be different from what someone else uses. And that speaks to something I’ve noticed over three decades in plastic surgery as it’s evolved. And that is our patients are much more discriminating today. They are much […]
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Posted May 30, 2024 in Mommy Makeover, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck
By Dr. Chris Patronella In the this patient you can see that, while she has very significant stretch marks on her abdomen, when I pull the skin taut during a True Form Tummy Tuck procedure, the stretch marks are not nearly as apparent. They are much harder to see. Stretch marks are still present […]
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Posted May 23, 2024 in True Form Body Contouring®, True Form Tummy Tuck®, Tummy Tuck
Restoration of the belly button is a surprisingly complex aspect of tummy tuck surgery. It’s one of the top concerns women tell me they have about the procedure. Many have seen the results of friends who wound up with artificial-looking navels after undergoing a tummy tuck (abdominoplasty). Since one of the most common goals patients […]
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Posted May 15, 2024 in Breast Augmentation, Breast Implant Replacement, Breast Implants
By Dr. Patronella Almost all women who seek breast augmentation would like to have, in the end, a very natural result. The naturalness of results can be impacted by a number of factors. Some of these are related to what a woman starts with. And some are related to what we do surgically. If they […]
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