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Ellis Tavin, MD
My goal is to listen to your concerns, educate you as to your options, and try to produce a very natural looking result.
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Facilities
East Memphis Surgery Center
Procedures Performed
Aesthetic Genital Plastic Surgery
Arm Lift
Body Contouring
Body Lift
Botulinum Toxin
Breast Augmentation
Breast Implant Removal
Breast Implant Removal
Breast Implant Revision
Breast Lift
Breast Reconstruction
Breast Reduction
Breast Reduction
Brow Lift
Buttock Lift with Augmentation
Cheek Augmentation
Chemical Peels, IPL, Fractional CO2 Laser Treatments
Chin Augmentation
Chin Surgery
Dermabrasion
Dermal Fillers
Deviated Septum Correction
Ear Reconstruction Surgery
Ear Surgery
Endoscopic Technique
Eyelid Surgery
Facelift
General Reconstruction
Giant Nevi Removal
Hair Transplant
Hand Surgery
Hand Surgery for Congenital Differences
Head and Neck Cancer Reconstruction
Head and Neck Skin Cancer Reconstruction
Injectable Fillers
Laser Hair Removal
Lip Augmentation/Enhancement
Liposuction
Male Breast Reduction
Microdermabrasion
Mommy Makeover
Neck Lift
Nonsurgical Fat Reduction
Retin-A Treatments
Rhinoplasty
Scar Revision
Skin Cancer Removal
Spider Vein Treatment
Thigh Lift
TRAM Flap Breast Reconstruction
Tummy Tuck
Ask a Surgeon
Dr. Ellis Tavin participates in the ASPS Ask A Surgeon service. View responses to public questions below.
Are Silicone implants at 19 possible?!
Breast AugmentationMember Response:
If you find a plastic surgeon who is willing to place silicone implants “off label” in someone younger than 22, ask them to check if the manufacturer will warranty the. Implant if there is a problem. They may not want to get on the wrong side of the FDA.
Enriched Fat Grafting to Nose
Skin rejuvenation and resurfacingMember Response:
Your question can not be answered by email. Please, please, please stop going overseas and see a board certified plastic surgeon for an in-person consultation.
Enriched Fat Grafting to Nose
Skin rejuvenation and resurfacingMember Response:
Your question can not be answered by email. Please, please, please stop going overseas and see a board certified plastic surgeon for an in-person consultation.
Academic setting or private practice?
Breast ReconstructionMember Response:
Physicians at academic medical centers are training residents and fellows who will perform part of your surgery under supervision of the attending physician. All fully trained plastic surgeons were trainees at one time. Most private practice physicians will do your entire surgery themselves with the aide of an assistant. Nowadays most DIEP flaps are being performed in academic medical centers. As you are less than 30 miles from Boston, you should be able to find surgeons there who perform DIEP flaps.
Breast lift and implant incision healing
Breast LiftMember Response:
If you can’t or won’t return to your out of state surgeon, go to a local plastic surgeon. The ER you s usually unfamiliar with breast implants
Breast lift and implant incision healing
Breast LiftMember Response:
If you can’t or won’t return to your out of state surgeon, go to a local plastic surgeon. The ER you s usually unfamiliar with breast implants
Moving placement of implants
Breast Implant RevisionMember Response:
You may want to consider highly cohesive silicone implants which are less likely to ripple whether placed above or below the muscle. Avoiding large implants in women with very little breast tissue also decreases the chance of having visible rippling.
Lip healing
Lip Augmentation/EnhancementMember Response:
The answer to both of your questions is, probably yes. Apply pressure to the firm area 5 minutes a day using your fingers. It should soften and flatten in 2-3 months. The color may take a year to come back.
Young Revision- Help
Breast Implant RevisionMember Response:
I have personally stopped using textured implants 5 years ago to eliminate the very small, but real risk of Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. The most important factors in avoiding displacement of implants is limiting the width of the pocket dissection towards the arm pit and making sure the base diameter of the implant is no more than one centimeter more than your pre-implantation breast base diameter. In your case you should also consider insertion of an absorbable mesh to reinforce the tightening up/repair of the capsule. Good luck.
Age and insurance
Breast ReductionMember Response:
You should call your insurance company as different companies have different coverage rules. Good luck.
Finger nail replacement
Hand SurgeryMember Response:
Unfortunately as the nail bed (the pink tissue under the fingernail) is very thin, a skin cancer of the nail bed may involve the underlying bone. Your first concern should be complete removal of the melanoma in situ.
Capsulectomy necessary with rupture?
Breast Implant RevisionMember Response:
If the capsule is not thickened or otherwise abnormal and you do not have textured implants with a late seroma, there is no reason to remove the capsule. Removal of the capsule may distort the breast and increases the risk of bleeding after surgery. Sounds like the advice you received from your plastic surgeon is correct.
Back Pain due to congenital issue
LiposuctionMember Response:
I am sorry that you have these problems. You must understand that liposuction is not a weight loss procedure. Most patients who undergo liposuction have no change in their weight. Insurance companies consider liposuction cosmetic and not a covered procedure.
Failed implant or not?
Breast AugmentationMember Response:
An infection that grew bacteria in contact with an implant is unlikely to be cured without replacing the implant. You need to talk to your plastic surgeon or their coverage if the surgeon is not available.
Uneven Areolas / too big Areola after reduction?
Breast ReductionMember Response:
Ask your plastic surgeon to reduce the larger areola. The nipple position may still be slightly different.
Tummy Tuck after Epigastric Hernia Repair
Tummy TuckMember Response:
In the event of staging the surgeries, if the hernia repair is done laparoscopically, I would recommend waiting 2 months to allow the nitrogen gas used during that surgery to be absorbed and the bloating resolved.
Before or after childbearing
Breast ReductionMember Response:
Studies show that 60% of women who have undergone breast reduction can successfully breast feed. A similar percentage of women with large breasts who had not had surgery successfully breast fed. I have certainly done reductions on women who were in their early 20’s who had not had children.
Septal Hematoma
RhinoplastyMember Response:
In addition to everything my colleagues have said, another possibility is that you may have nasal valve collapse. I see a number of patients who are referred for persistent nasal obstruction in spite of septoplasty (without hematoma), who have this problem. This condition can be diagnosed on examination by your doctor.
20 year saline implant deflation & removal question
Breast Implant RemovalMember Response:
It is reasonable to deflate saline implants before deciding on a lift. There is no reason to remove thin capsules. Breast tissue would have to be removed as well increasing the risk for bleeding.
Hernia
Tummy TuckMember Response:
No. Repair of a hernia is medically necessary. Repair of a diastasis recti is cosmetic.