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Female Focus
This month I am answering some of the questions I receive by email, if you have a question about cosmetic surgery or any other medical issue please feel free to contact me by email on the address shown at the end of this article. Alternatively call into the surgery if you feel more comfortable talking directly to me.
1. Dear Dr Poole, I feel that my abdomen and buttocks are too large and have read about Liposuction. Could this help me? What other areas of my body could also be helped by this procedure? Liposuction is best defined as “Liposculpture” and is not an operation to reduce weight or waist. Its main purpose is to reduce the fat from areas where fat is reluctant to go eg: thighs and lower tummy. Patients complain that when they diet, they lose fat everywhere except those areas. They may even lose fat from the face and breasts leaving them saggy and wrinkled before beginning to lose it on the mentioned areas. This is due to an increased number of fat cells in those areas and in these cases liposuction is the best answer. For a large abdomen a tummy tuck is best advised and this can be a minor one which involves the lower tummy or a complete one that also deals with the upper tummy.
2. Dear Dr Poole, I have drooping eyelids, and bags below my eyes as a result. What can be done to help me please? Does it make any difference that I wear contact lenses? For drooping lids and bags the recommendation is the “Blepharoplasty” where we remove both the extra skin and the fatty pads. As a result wrinkles go as well leaving the eyes with the desired almond shape. This lightens the eyes and they no longer look sad or tired.
When the problem is droopy eyebrows, a frontal lift is advised, there, an incision is made past the hair line on the top of the head and the skin of the forehead is lifted all the way down to the eyes. This lifts up the brows some half an inch opening the eyes and also gets rid of the wrinkles of the forehead and top of the nose. It doesn’t take more than an hour and has a lasting result for twenty years or more. Wearing contact lenses is not a problem but during the early post op it is advised to avoid them.
3. Dear Dr Poole, I don’t feel quite as confident as I used to about my breasts. I would love them to be raised and reshaped. What are my options please? This is a very common problem, especially on women with large breasts or those who have breast fed. The recommended operation is called mastopexy and the idea is to remove some skin to tighten the breast. At the same time, the nipple is relocated to a higher position. There are many techniques. Some may not leave scar, some may leave a vertical line to the inframammary fold and some others an inverted T. These scars tend to fade with time. In some cases when the gland has become smaller (eg: after menopause) you can also take the opportunity to put in implants that will restore the breast to its original shape.
We try to do all these operations under sedation and local anaesthesia on a day surgery basis allowing the patient to go home the same day thus saving the need of general anaesthesia and hospitalisation.
Article supplied by Dr. I. Poole, Clinica El Arenal which can be found at Av. Arenal 2, Jávea.
Tel: 965 792 418 11am - 1pm or 652 286 720 (24hr).
Dr.I.Poole@gmail.com
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