Pearls on Cosmetic Breast Measurements
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- Identify a specific set of measurements that will assist the surgeon and patient in creating a realistic understanding of an acceptable aesthetic result.
- Understand how to address volume differences in asymmetric breasts so as not to exaggerate the upper pole fullness of the larger breast.
- Determine degree of breast ptosis in order to assess if a mastopexy is needed or if implants alone could give the illusion of a lift.
- Recognize how breast width diameter is a limiting factor for maximum implant volume and why saline implants can often provide larger volumes than silicone.
- Distinguish how a woman with a long torso length may not be able to have her breasts appear higher.
- Appreciate how measurements are a valuable reminder of a patient?s preoperative anatomy and may be useful at post-op visits for patient reassurance, limitations of any revision surgery, or third-party evaluations and judgments.
Ted Eisenberg, DO, FACOS, DFACOS
Clinical Associate Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Ted S. Eisenberg, DO, FACOS, DFACOS, director of the East Coast Center for Cosmetic Breast Surgery in Philadelphia, PA, has over 30 years of experience as a plastic surgeon. Since 1998, he has evolved his practice to focus exclusively on cosmetic breast surgery.
Dr. Eisenberg is board-certified in both General Surgery and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery by the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Eisenberg was the National Chairman of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Division of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons. He also served on the certifying board of the AOBS and the residency evaluating committee of the ACOS.
He has lectured at conferences and universities nationally and internationally, including in Dubai and Nairobi. A frequent contributor to academic journals, Dr. Eisenberg’s article on lowering deflation rates of saline implants through overfilling was published in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2021. He has published on an innovative technique for augmentation mastopexy, the management of PONV in breast augmentation patients, repairing Tuberous Breast Deformity with saline implants, and the use of acellular dermal matrix in breast implant exposure.
With his wife, Joyce, he is the author of The Scoop On Breasts: A Plastic Surgeon Busts the Myths (Incompra Press 2012).
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