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Breast Implants – How do you know which one is best for you?

by Terrye Tebbetts When considering breast augmentation, one of the major options and choices a patient has is the type of breast implant the surgeon will use.  However, when you ask most women who have had implants, they don’t know … Continue reading

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Breast Augmentation – How to Determine the Size and Look you want

by Terrye Tebbetts How to choose the breast implant size for each patient is probably the most heated debate for surgeons and most worried about option/choice for patients.  The most common methods are all subjective and mean nothing when it … Continue reading

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Back to the Basics – Q&A Breast Implant Manufacturers

by Terrye Tebbetts Many cosmetic surgery websites have a helpful list of questions for you to have available when you go to your consults.  I thought it would be helpful to provide you with some answers ahead of time too!  … Continue reading

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Mastopexy and Breast Implants ~ two opposing forces destined to cause trouble

by Terrye Tebbetts Question “I am in a situation where I still desire a rounder looking breast and since it is too late for me to use high five I still wonder what is the weight diff between 378cc and … Continue reading

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A measurement is not a measurement is not a measurement in Breast Augmentation?

by Terrye Tebbetts The High Five Measurement system was published by John B. Tebbetts, MD – it is a system that has produced the lowest reoperation rate in breast augmentation ever published.  It is a system that fills the breast … Continue reading

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Breast Implant Revision Surgery – Going on # 4…

by Terrye Tebbetts I am always amazed when I hear these types of stories, yet I shouldn’t be – because unfortunately it happens all the time.  A woman decides to have breast implants – goes into it not fully knowing … Continue reading

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Breast Implants ~ what causes rippling?

by Terrye Tebbetts I recently joined a conversation between several women about what causes rippling in breast implants and was amazed to find all focused on the filler of the implant.  The debate was whether saline breast implants wrinkled more than silicone.  … Continue reading

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Myth #4 Most Problems and Complications in Breast Augmentation are Cause by the Breast Implant

by Terrye Tebbetts This myth is another one of my favorite pet peeves! How many times have we read in magazines or seen on the latest TV talk show du jour that breast implants caused horrible problems? How many times … Continue reading

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Can Breast Implants ever Equal Rice Baggies?

by Terrye Tebbetts I saw another post on a forum today about using the Rice Test to determine breast implant size.  I can’t believe women are really measuring out rice, putting into baggies and stuffing it into their bras – … Continue reading

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Breast Implant Size – the saga that never goes away….

by Terrye Tebbetts It never ceases to amaze me how many questions there are about how to determine breast implant size when contemplating a breast augmentation surgery. Most treat it like picking out new clothes or getting colored contacts or … Continue reading

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