The benefits of combining cosmetic surgery procedures into one session have become a mainstay in plastic surgery. Doing more than one procedure at once was not common in the past, but in today’s day and age, combining procedures makes perfect sense. Patients benefit from one recovery, less cost and most importantly, achieving the final results in one surgical session.

When given the option to address several issues, most patients have a lot to say. But first, the patient needs to be sure that his/her surgeon performs combination procedures routinely. Dr. Hakki has been performing combination procedures safely with successful results for years. Below are the most requested combination procedures by Dr. Hakki’s patients:

Facial Cosmetic Procedures Combos:

Liquid Facelfit: This treatment is the latest, noninvasive trend in combination procedures. Better together, fillers and Botox are key factors in rejuvenating the aging face. Since aging is in part due to loss of volume, fillers such as Radiesse or Juvederm can help your surgeon reshape and volumize your face. Botox then relaxes the corresponding muscles. This duo-treatment approach results in smoothing out aging lines and wrinkles instantly. In the hands of an experienced surgeon a liquid facelift can be done in one session, takes half an hour and requires no down time.

Facelift-Fat Grafting-Peel-Laser Combo: Gone are the days of the lone-standing facelift which resulted in a wind-tunnel-like face, both tight and empty. Our faces age in multiple ways and while gravity causes sagging and drooping, our faces also lose volume. Aging skin turns dull in color with enlarged pores and age spots. A facelift & fat grafting procedure with a laser & peel combo addresses all three aging factors in one step. While the facelift surgically addresses the loss of skin laxity, a fat transfer performed at the same time as a facelift restores volume and rebuilds the youthful structure of the face. This combination procedure also improves skin texture. Laser skin resurfacing or a peel completes this natural treatment by improving skin viability and providing glowing complexion.

Body Cosmetic Procedure Combos:

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Breast Lift-Augmentation Combo: This procedure is standard in Dr. Hakki’s practice. Although some surgeons split up breast lift and breast implant procedures, combining the two in one surgery has been Dr. Hakki’s approach for years. Patients typically lose the shape of the breast as well as fullness. A breast lift alone will lift the breast but it will not address the lack of volume and fullness in a patient’s cleavage. A breast lift augmentation combo offers patients a voluptuous higher looking breast. Dr. Hakki uses saline or silicone implants or fat grafting into the breast (natural breast augmentation) to achieve successful results.

Liposuction-Fat Grafting Combo-Brazilian Butt Lift: This procedure is the ideal solution for a patient desiring a more rounded, curvaceous buttock region. This is achieved by liposuctioning multiple areas of the patient’s body, which in turn, helps define the desired area. Dr. Hakki’s approach relies on a unique technique of harvesting and re-injecting the fat. He reinjects his patient’s own harvested fat into the buttocks. Liposuction removes fat from the lower back and spine area, allowing for a beautiful curvature of the back. Liposuction brings out the protrusion of the buttocks once the fat is injected. Dr. Hakki injects a large volume of fat depending on the patient and the volume desired. Combining a liposuction procedure with fat grafting or a Brazilian butt lift is the safest most permanent way to achieve great results in buttocks augmentation.

Liposuction-Tummy Tuck Combo: The liposuction procedure partnered with a tummy tuck in a single procedure has become a natural twosome. The paired procedures enjoy a naturally synergistic love affair. The liposuction is typically performed on the surrounding areas of the stomach, such as the love handles, waist and flanks. This provides the patient with a more sculpted look, while the tummy tuck removes the stretched skin. 

Bottom Line

Dr. Hakki’s combined surgery profile has proven to be safe throughout the years, which is primarily attributed to his years of experience. Luxxery Medical Boutique procedures are done under local anesthesia and conscious sedation.  This effective use of local anesthesia allows patients to be comfortably anesthetized, avoiding the need for general anesthesia. This leads to a decrease in infection and bleeding, allows for longer operating room time and reduces complications. All surgeries are performed at our certified and fully accredited Luxxery surgery center. Visit us today for your private consultation with our artist Dr. Hakki. 

Brazilian Butt Lift: Future Focus

In my previous articles in Your Health, I took a look at the 10 cosmetic plastic surgery predictions of The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) for 2011. In this article, I’ll provide insight regarding which of these predictions came true for us at Luxxery with Plastic Surgeon Dr. Hakki.

“Celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Beyonce, and Jennifer Lopez have made a shapely rear-end a must have accessory. In the coming year patients will be seeking posterior body lifts, buttock lifts, surgical and nonsurgical buttock augmentations to shape and augment their buttocks.” – ASAPS 2011 Prediction.

As I take a look back on 2011 at Luxxery, Dr. Hakki’s practice is consistent with the above ASAPS prediction. Further analysis shows a marked incline in gluteal augmentation surgery. The Brazilian Butt Lift or buttock augmentation procedure by way of fat grafting is at the top of our list for patients requesting body contouring procedures. Dr. Hakki’s practice has shown a threefold increase in the Brazilian Butt Lift procedure as compared to the year before. Although cultural differences are a factor that plays a role in what is considered trendy, it seems that the idea of having a larger backside bypasses ethnic, cultural and racial variances. Our patients have learned to prioritize procedures that make them the happiest while simultaneously managing their budgets.

The Brazilian Butt Lift has not only increased in popularity in Dr. Hakki’s practice, but also all over the world. Unfortunately, the increased demand and heightened popularity of this procedure has patients seeking other options such as artificial products. These unsafe procedures such as liquid silicone injections in the gluteal-buttock region are unethical and dangerous. Injectable silicone is not a medical product. It is, however, an industrial product. It can never become part of the body, and can cause abscesses and infections. Silicone is also prone to scarring and can end up extruded through the skin from the body. Silicone gluteal injection procedures are being performed by criminal, unlicensed individuals who pose a danger to the health of their patients.

Now let’s discuss the healthy and medically approved way to increase the size of your butt. A Brazilian butt lift by way of fat grafting involves taking fat from one area of the body and injecting it into the buttock region. The fat is obtained by way of liposuction of a patient’s abdomen, flanks, bra rolls or any other areas. The fat grafting process transfers the fat into the buttocks area. The grafted fat is the ideal filler for injection because it comes from the patient’s body with no immune factors. The procedure provides patients with safe, long lasting results. This is referred to as “autologous” fat transplantation, a technique considered by many as the choice procedure for buttock volume enhancement.

The Brazilian butt lift uses a technique that harvests fat rich with living cells. The fat is placed into the recipient’s buttock tissue, where the body houses large veins to insure its survival. Dr. Hakki then creates multiple tunnels where he places microdroplets of fat allowing for the deposited fat to be exposed to the surrounding tissue. There are no disadvantages to the Brazilian butt lift or any fat grafting procedure if it is well executed. The procedure is technique-dependent and Dr. Hakki’s advanced training and experience in fat transfer has allowed his patients to enjoy truly successful results.

The bottom line: All surgeries carry risk. See a board certified plastic surgeon with extensive years in practice and experience in your procedure of interest. Buttock augmentation is here to stay and has solidified its place as the procedure of the future.  

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By Amanda Long, Published: November 18, 2011

 How can I be an artist at heart, someone who celebrates the human form, and be in the business of changing it? I thought for a long time that a plastic surgeon’s job was to make you look better. A plastic surgeon’s job is to make you feel better. The only way I can make you feel better is by making you look like you think you look. My first year at Georgetown, an NIH psychologist presented a study on plastic [surgery]. She found that people with the most confidence are those whose body image, what they see in the mirror, is very close to their self-image — what they see when they close their eyes at night. If I can achieve an approximation of these two things, then I’m going to make you feel better, and making you look better is secondary. Women want to control their own destiny — that’s all. The last thing they want is another man telling them how to look. 

I say no every day. When a woman says, “My husband likes big boobs,” or “I want to save my marriage,” I will not do it. If you are changing who you are for someone else, I will not help. When a patient says she woke up with a bad feeling in her gut, I’ll cancel the surgery. I’m still superstitious; the artist always controls the scientist.  

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Liposuction 101

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Saddle bags, muffin tops, love handles, banana rolls, meetliposuction.  But, what techniqueshould you choose?  Liposuction,Tumescent Liposuction, Vaser Lipo System, Lipodissolve™, Smartlipo™, etc...  Read along and earn a few credit hoursas you embark on the road to eliminating bulging fat.

Liposuction

Traditional liposuction is a surgical procedure invented in 1974that involves anesthesia, an incision, a few hours to perform and several daysfor recovery.  Most importantly,liposuction is best performed by a board certified plastic surgeon and not yourdermatologist or your gynecologist. Liposuction is the actual physical removal of fat allowing for dramaticreduction in both circumference and body contouring.  Your surgeon inserts a metal tube, called a cannula, throughan incision in the skin and into the fatty area.  As your surgeon suctions, the unwanted fat is led to acontainer attached to a suction pump. Liposuction remains until today the gold standard to shrink specificareas of the body that do not respond to overall reduction in body weight and resultsof traditional liposuction remain better than any other technique whenperformed on the ideal patient.

Lipodissolve™

Also known as mesotherapy, lipolysis orlipostabil, Lipodissolve™ initially began in Italy in the 1980’s and hasrecently become available in the U.S. The procedure involves a series of injections with the promise ofmelting away unwanted small localized areas of fat.  The chemical cocktail used in the medicated injectionsvaries from doctor to doctor as well as the area to be treated. The mainingredient used in the cocktail, Phosphatidylcholine, is not approved by theFDA .  Phosphatidylcholine is asoybean extract, FDA-approved as an agent that breaks down blood fats but notas a substance for injection to promise fat melting.  Lipodissolve being a noninvasive procedure with thelikelihood of achieving no positive results is has no set regulations on who isallowed to perform it; it is an experimental procedure and has not received theendorsement of  the AmericanSociety of Plastic Surgeons.

Tumescent Liposuction

Liposuction was revolutionized in 1985 with the tumescenttechnique.  Tumescent liposuctioninvolves injecting a fluid, mostly a mixture of lidocaine, saline andepinephrine, to expand the fat compartment before cannula insertion.  This technique makes suction easier andmore effective, but mainly contributing to less bleeding and bruising andeliminating the need for general anesthesia.

Ultrasound &Laser Assisted Liposuction

Vaser Lipo System, Lipodissolve™, Smartlipo™, Ultra-Sculpt,Pro-Lipo, Lipolite, etc…are all new systems that include cannulas that emiteither ultrasound waves or laser wavelengths.  The purpose is to further liquefy fat prior to removal.  Keeping in mind that best results areachieved when the liquefied fat is suctioned out, the purported benefits to thepatient are that fat is easier to remove with less swelling and bruising.  While early ultrasound and laserassisted systems led to some side effects such as skin burns and nerve damage,I found that the third generation devices addressed these side effects.  These systems require multipletreatments performed within weeks or sometimes once a week, they can be thoughtof as popular adjuncts to traditional liposuction or post traditionalliposuction.  Both ultrasound andlaser assisted liposuction can be combined.

The gap between the dramatic results of liposuction and thesubtle results of the noninvasive, “skin smoothing” ultrasound or laserassisted liposuction gets even wider when the added cost of these new systemsis considered.  From a costperspective to the patient, the multiple sessions required with the noninvasiveapproach can add up to the cost of one traditional liposuction.

If you are overweight, you need a lifestyle change and notliposuction regardless of the technique used to perform the liposuction.  You may benefit from combo techniquessuch as liposuction and abdominoplasty (tummy-tuck) if you have excessivelyloose skin.  If you are notoverweight but have those unattractive lumps around your hips, thighs or buttocksthe liposuction is just what the doctor ordered.

So what’s a patient to do?

Do your research, be a well informed patient, set realisticexpectations and most importantly choose your experts wisely and then, be onyour way to perfect curves.

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To women in their 20s, 30s, 40s and even 50s, breast size isno small issue.  First comes thedecision to join the ranks of the “surgically endowed”, then comes the harderchoice of getting the size right.

With the abundance of preconceived negative ideas aboutelecting to have plastic surgery, to join or not to join the ranks of thesurgically endowed becomes an issue of self-esteem and plain humansexuality.  With the number ofwomen undergoing breast augmentation increasing in staggering percentages yearafter year, understanding the benefits that occur from undergoing breastaugmentation has been the subject of many studies. Numerous studies have beenconducted showing a direct correlation in the improvement of women’s selfesteem and sexual satisfaction and an absolute psychological improvementfollowing breast augmentation surgery. These studies show that patients seekingbreast augmentation merit respect, compassion and understanding instead ofdismissal and stereotyping.

Ideal patients are women who do not view plastic surgery andbreast augmentation as the end-all cure to their sexual afflictions and selfesteem.  An ideal plastic surgeon hasthe ability to screen patients with serious underlying psychological issues andelects not to operate on patients who feel that their life will completelychange after plastic surgery.  Thecombination of the ideal patient with the ideal plastic surgeon leads to whatthe doctor ordered, “Just the right size breast” from the first time.

Augmented breast have a spherical shape with an outwardprojecting areola and nipple, a rounded contour, narrow base with a wider cleavageand fullness on the top of the breast. Enhanced breast have a natural more youthful appearance when the size isright.  The one decision aboutbreast augmentation that often goes wrong is size.  A size satisfied patient is a patient who feels confidentabout her ability to evaluate her own plastic surgeon’s ability andadvice.  Factors such as the 34Cideal cup size stigma, ill advice from friends, the wrong surgeon or the wrongperception of the ideal final results can lead to dissatisfied patients. In mytwenty years of consulting patients in the field of plastic surgery, and in apractice with over two thousand satisfied breast augmentation patients, I havebeen able to accumulate a few pearls in order to help you get it right thefirst time on  “breast sizematters”:

1.    Let your body structure dictate the cup size andnot some celebrity chosen implant size. This is not a one size fits all matter.

2.    The implant size your best friend chose mightnot be the size you should blindly choose

3.    Talk with your surgeon about your goals and baseyour goals on your original breast size and shape

4.    Check out your surgeon’s own patients  beforeand after photos

5.    Check out the nuances that separate your plasticsurgeon from the next and make sure you like his philosophy towards yourprocedure, as well as his personal and professional profile

6.    Check out your surgeon’s artistic ability. Canhe or she draw or illustrate your procedure and your options or rely oncomputer generated images.  Aplastic surgeon with no artistic talent is like a painter with no brush.

7.    Get a breast sizing consultation and try ondifferent size implants or call us for our -at home pre-consultation kit-

8.    Most dissatisfied patients regret going toosmall, so whatever size you finally decide on, going a little larger will makeyou happier in the long run.

Interestingly enough, your breast implants come with amanufacturer’s warranty.  Ten yearsof financial assistance of up to $1200 for out of pocket fees and a life timeimplant replacement is the standard warranty with the two major breast implantmanufacturers.

So what’s a girl to do? Follow the above guidelines, do yourresearch, be a well informed patient, set realistic expectations and mostimportantly choose your experts wiselyand be on your way to perfect curves.