Who is a reasonable candidate for accessory breast tissue removal?
Many patients walk into this consultation having already made up their minds. What they are looking for, often without realising it, is not a…
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What does recovery feel like after accessory breast tissue removal, and why does it vary so much?
The axilla is one of the few places on the body that almost never holds still. It opens and closes hundreds of times a…
Read articleCan accessory breast tissue come back after surgery?
Can accessory breast tissue come back after surgery? Op. Dr. Mert Demirel explains long-term stability, hormonal changes, and why biology cannot be frozen. No…
Read articleWill ankle liposuction make my legs look longer or more tapered?
Every so often a patient asks the question in a way that reveals what they are actually hoping for: “I want my legs to…
Read articleHow can you tell whether my ankle fullness is fat or swelling?
Thick ankles do not always mean extra fat. That sentence, said early in a consultation, saves more unnecessary operations than almost anything else I…
Read articleHow do I know whether my waist problem is fat, skin laxity, or something structural?
This is the first question that matters, because it prevents the wrong procedure. Fat dominance usually looks like localised thickness that blurs the waistline,…
Read articleIs a 360° tummy tuck the same as Lipo 360?
Not necessarily. The “360” concept is about treating the torso as a continuous circumference, but the tools can differ. Lipo 360 is primarily a…
Read articleHow do you decide whether skin needs to be removed in accessory breast tissue surgery?
I decide this by evaluating skin recoil and redundancy, and by predicting whether volume reduction alone will leave a fold. If the skin envelope…
Read articleCan accessory breast tissue removal be combined with other breast procedures?
Sometimes it can make sense, especially if the lateral breast and axilla need to read as one coherent contour field. But combination is not…
Read articleCan alar base reduction be performed on its own, without a full rhinoplasty?
There is a particular kind of patient who comes into a nose consultation with a clear, narrow request: I do not want a rhinoplasty.…
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