Bougainvillea Clinique Blog | Dr. Hartog

Occasionally we call other plastic surgeons' offices to find out what kind of information they provide to their patients. Unfortunately, we have found that the receptionists at many offices often provide very poor, or even false information with regard to the safety of breast implants. We are not sure whether the information they provide reflects the opinion of their surgeon, or whether they are just poorly informed. We suspect that they are at least reflecting the bias of their surgeon. This is particularly the case with regard to saline and gel breast implants. One office we called indicated that they never do gel implants because they are bad, and another office told us they never do saline implants because they are bad. The reasons they provided where even more interesting. The office where the surgeon did not perform gel implants, informed us that gel implants were bad because the gel goes all over the body and makes people sick. Really now, do you honestly believe the FDA, after all the publicity, would have released gel breast implants back on the market (after 14 years of intensive study) if this were  true? Clearly not. The office whose surgeon does not do saline implants, said saline implants were bad because when they leak, they just go flat. Pretty obvious, but why is this bad, when it is a simple matter to replace a leaking implant.

At the Bougainvillea Clinique we offer our breast implant patients many options and choices. We provide saline and gel implants, under the muscle and over the muscle placement, and all the various incisions, including under the breast (inframammary), under the nipple (areolar), through the belly button (TUBA) and through the armpit (transaxillary). One of the questions we are sometimes asked, pertains to the options available for anaesthesia. Like any other cosmetic surgery procedure, breast augmentation can be performed under local anaesthesia, local with sedation (twilight) or general anaesthetic. Some surgeons place a lot of emphasis on the fact that they do breast augmentation under pure local anaesthetic, and although we will provide this if our patients specifically request it, it is not our recommendation for a number of reasons. Before I explain these reasons, I would like to emphasize that all the surgeons in the Orlando area who strongly promote local anaesthetic, do not have fully accredited and licensed surgical facilities, and as such, it is illegal for them to provide any services under intravenous sedation or general anaesthetic in the State of Florida. At the Bougainvillea Clinique, we have the fully state and federally certified Aesthetic Surgery Center of Winter Park, so we are able to make recommendations based on what we think is best for you, and not based on the limited options that some other surgeons are able to offer.

We have been using the Vectra Breast Sculptor 3-Dimensional Imaging system for approximately 6 months, and the response from our breast augmentation patients has been extremely positive.