The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is proud to advance the Advancing Women's Health Coverage Act (AWHCA) with our congressional champions and advocacy groups such as Susan G. Komen.
Most of us imagine being asleep and entirely unaware of what's happening when we think of having surgery, but for some procedures – and the right patient – awake plastic surgery may be an option.
Most plastic surgery procedures cause some scarring. Patients often determine the success of their surgery by how visible the scars are. Scarring is inevitable with surgery, but there are many different ways to make them less noticeable.
"I think our techniques and technology for a breast and body surgery can take years off of ourselves. With mommy makeovers, tummy tucks, breast lifts, augmentations, we can really put people's bodies back to how they looked and sometimes even an improvement from 20 years before or before they had children."
Among patients undergoing panniculectomy to remove excess abdominal skin, those with previous COVID may be at higher risk of serious blood clot-related complications called venous thromboembolism (VTE), reports a study in the November issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
