Plastic Surgery in Seattle - Four Choices You Shouldn't Make

Seattle is a beautiful, green city sprawled alongside Puget Sound. Since the advent of the dot com economic sector, Seattle has been a major breeding ground for new industries and technological ventures. The fact that Microsoft is headquartered in the suburb of Redmond has made Seattle a magnet city for new tech companies and services.

It is also a city with a large population of young, ambitious, attractive professionals. While it gave birth to the "grunge" movement in rock music and while the tech industries are noted for their casual dress codes, Seattle's active residents are just as appearance conscious as young New York movers and shakers. Cosmetic plastic surgery is a thriving business in the Seattle area; if you are in search of the right plastic surgeon or the right personal enhancement procedure, you'll find lots of choices there.

Since cosmetic plastic surgeons really have to get it right the first time, it's incumbent on you to be prepared to make the right choice for your personal body enhancement goals.
Cosmetic plastic surgery patients have given the entire process a great deal of thought. You've chosen to proceed; now you've got to choose the right practitioner. Here are four choices you SHOULDN'T make:

1. Don't do this on the cheap. Find out what the price ranges are for the procedure you're seeking: it's easily researched on the Internet. You're going to have to live with a breast augmentation or a forehead lift or a tummy tuck for a long time. Don't let cost be a deciding factor; like anything else you get the eye tuck or nose job that you pay for. Many clinics have payment plans available.

2. Don't be content with a surgeon who is new to the game. In many states, any doctor can claim to be a plastic surgeon as long as s/he is an M.D. You want a board-certified plastic surgeon who paid the dues in residency and who has trained for the procedure you want.

3. Don't settle for a cosmetic plastic surgeon that doesn't specialize in the procedure(s) you're seeking. Aesthetic surgery is so widespread now that there are specialists for breast augmentation, specialists for rhinoplasty (nose work); specialists for facial lifts and tucks, etc. Take the time to find the right one.

4. Don't opt for the latest, greatest "new thing" unless it's been vetted by the FDA. There are new fillers like Botox on the market that may have serious side effects. New procedures can be tested on someone else. People who opted for silicon injections some years ago ended up with deformed bodies and expensive removal procedures.

Mary Hart is a freelance writer specializing in Cosmetic & Beauty topics. Find information about all types of plastic surgery procedures including breast implants, breast augmentation, face lifts, and liposuction. A Board Certified Plastic Surgeon Resource.com is the place to locate a Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Rapid Recovery After Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation is both a popular and highly successful procedure that is done over 300,000 times per year in the United States alone. Some women, however, fear the procedure due to the belief that there is a lot of pain after surgery and that their return to work or normal activities may take several weeks. Breast augmentation surgery today, however, can put the patient back to a near normal schedule within days.

Breast augmentation, from a simplistic standpoint, is really a big 'pulled muscle'. In this
case, the pectoralis muscle on the chest is 'pulled'. Breast augmentation, in most cases, is the lifting up of this muscle and placing an implant partially underneath it. No breast implant is completely under the muscle or it would be positioned too high and the nipple would be pointing downward. As the pocket into which a breast implant is placed controls the final shape of the breast, recovery after breast augmentation is really muscular. From a physical therapy standpoint, how do you recover from a pulled muscle? Do you not move it...or bind it up and keep it from moving? The answer is.....use it! Early moving and stretching of an injured muscle is the key to a faster recovery after breast augmentation. You can't hurt the breast implant by using your arm and chest muscles and early movement will not be responsible for an implant 'getting out of position'.

In Indianapolis, the approach to a no recovery breast augmentation program begins in the operating room. A dose of steroids is given at the start of surgery and a bioelectric device, known as Actipatch, is placed over each breast before the patient leaves the operating room. This device, which is worn for 48 hours after surgery, helps control pain and swelling. I then start my breast augmentation patients on range of motion arm exercises beginning the night of surgery as well as 800mg of Ibuprofen twice a day also. The goal is to get patients off narcotics in 24 hours, if possible, and be able to get out of the house for dinner or shopping the next day. While not every patient achieves this exact timeline for a 'rapid recovery', this aggressive approach helps make a breast augmentation easier to go through than ever before.

Dr Barry Eppley is a board-certified plastic surgeon in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana at Clarian Health Systems. (http://www.eppleyplasticsurgery.com) He writes a daily blog on plastic surgery, spa therapies, and medical skin care at http://www.exploreplasticsurgery.com