While plastic surgery has become more accepted in everyday life, there are still some people may have regrets about their decisions. It may be because they opted for plastic surgery early on in life and the changes to their body, as they age, have caused the surgical results to change. It could be because of other health issues that have arose since their surgery, or it could just be for overall personal reasons.

Whatever reason a person has for deciding to have their plastic surgery reversed is their own decision and should not be looked down upon. People change, priorities change, and as we age our bodies don’t hold up like they used to.

And while some plastic surgery procedures can be reversed, there are others that are more permanent. These procedures can’t necessarily be reversed, in the traditional sense, but may require additional surgery to try and return to a more natural look.

Reversing a Plastic Surgery Procedure

As we mentioned above, plastic surgery procedures are typically a more permanent solution rather than a temporary fix. Any time you undergo plastic surgery you are altering your body in a way that it wasn’t meant to be, naturally. That’s obviously not a bad thing, but it will make things harder to reverse if you decide you don’t like the results.

Injectables and Non-Surgical

If you’ve undergone non-surgical procedures or had injectables like Botox or dermal fillers, then you typically don’t have to worry about reversal if you don’t like the results.

These procedures are considered temporary, and the results usually begin to fade over time, in most cases, leaving you with your original look.

There can be instances where things were done incorrectly which can lead to trouble healing and possible issues in the future, but as long as you’re going to a credible doctor, these shouldn’t be issues.

Other non-surgical procedures like CoolSculpting, skin tightening, and resurfacing are also considered temporary in that they will not last forever. If you don’t continue to make regular appointments, then your body will slowly go back to how it was.

So if you’re worried about how you look after a non-surgical procedure or injectable procedure, keep in mind that these procedures are almost always temporary and will fade over time.

If you notice that you’re having pain or swelling for an extended period after these procedures, be sure to make an appointment with your doctor to make sure you’re not having a reaction, or something else is going on.

Surgical Procedures – Breast Augmentation, Tummy Tuck, and More

When it comes to more traditional plastic surgery procedures it’s a little more difficult to fully reverse them.

Surgical procedures are typically deemed as permanent as they are restructuring the muscles and tissues of the body to achieve the desired results. A surgeon can’t go back and re-add areas of the body that they may have removed, so depending on what type of procedure you want to have reversed it may not be possible.

There are, however, ways to revise a previous surgery to gain a more natural look or return to as close to the original form factor as possible. These methods do require more plastic surgery and the results may not always return you back to what you remembered pre-surgery.

For example, if you have breast augmentation surgery and enhance your breasts up to a larger size, and then realize years later that bigger isn’t always better, you can opt to have the original implants removed and replaced with a smaller size. However, the tissue and skin around your breasts will have changed over the course of time that you had the implants, so if you choose to have them fully removed, there will need to be additional surgery done in order to reshape the original tissue. This reshaping, especially after an extended period of time, doesn’t always bring your body back to what you knew pre-surgery, but in most cases, it will make you feel better about yourself.

Other plastic surgery procedures, like tummy tucks and liposuction cannot be revised in the same way as breast implants.

With breast implants you’re introducing an outside element to help enhance the breasts. So if you don’t like the outcome, you can always opt to have that element removed from your body.

With a tummy tuck or liposuction, you’re removing skin, fat, and underlying tissue from your body, and restructuring the remaining areas to fit the new look. And since you’ve removed things from your body, you can’t go in and add them back in.

Thankfully, with these types of procedures, most of the time people are very happy with the elements they had removed from their bodies and, unless there was a mistake made during the surgery, there are not many requests to re-add them back in.

Facelifts, eyebrow lifts, and other facial cosmetic surgical procedures are a little less forgiving. Just like the tummy tuck and liposuction, typically patients are having skin and/or fat removed and stretched to make their skin look tighter or their eyes look larger. So, in these cases it’s also very hard to reverse the procedures.

Facial surgery revisions are possible, but it’s extremely important to find a skilled surgeon. Your face is the first thing people see and the more you try to change things, the more obvious it’s going to be.

We’ve all seen the pictures and heard the horror stories about plastic surgeries gone wrong, and sometimes that comes from the people that continuously try to fix something that they deem wrong or unfavorable.

The best thing you can do regarding plastic surgery is to make sure you find a quality surgeon with a great reputation. This will help prevent mistakes from happening and they will be able to advise you on the long-term outcomes of these procedures.

Nobody can know how they might feel about themselves in the distant future but knowing that you are in good hands can make all the difference in the world.

If you have any questions regarding plastic surgery revision, or plastic surgery procedures in general, please setup a consultation with us at Dr. Adams Plastic Surgery and we’d be happy to help.

Do you know why plastic surgery is called plastic surgery? If we were to ask a group of people where they believed the term “plastic surgery” comes from, we’re guessing most of them would say it has to do with the fact that various implants are made of plastic.

It’s a common misconception that plastic surgery was named as such because of the materials used in certain procedures, such as breast implants. In fact, the term plastic surgery was coined way back in 1798 and breast implants themselves were not developed, in their more recent form, until the early 1960’s.

If the term is not named for the type of material used in breast implants, then why is it called plastic surgery?

Plastic Surgery vs. Cosmetic Surgery

In recent years the term “cosmetic surgery” has started to replace plastic surgery, but there are still a lot of people around the world that lump all of these types of procedures as “plastic surgery”.

“Plastic” in plastic surgery is derived from the Greek word plastikos, which means to shape or mold something. So, as you can see, this term fits very well with the types of surgery and procedures that surgeons are performing.

These surgeons are molding and shaping your body in different ways to enhance or change your features. They are considered by many to be modern day artists, just working in a different medium.

Cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery are used interchangeable depending on who you’re talking to. Some doctors like to refer to it as cosmetic surgery these days because of the idea that many people believe that “plastic” is talking about the material used during the procedures, but in theory plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery are different.

Plastic surgery is an all-encompassing term that includes cosmetic surgery as well as reconstructive surgery. These two types of surgery are actually quite different even though there is a bit of an overlap in the methods and procedures used.

Cosmetic Surgery vs. Reconstructive Surgery

Cosmetic surgery typically refers to just that, surgical procedures designed to improve your body in a cosmetic way. This usually means that there is nothing “wrong” with a patient, but they desire to have changes made to their bodies.

These types of procedures would include things like breast augmentation, facelifts, liposuction, and things of that nature.

Reconstructive surgery typically refers to surgery that is required to help correct functional impairments caused by injuries, burns, genetic defects, cancers, and more. These procedures are designed to help a person lead a more normal life when affected by something out of their control.

These procedures can be performed to help a person look a certain way after an accident or gain functionality or mobility that they may have lost due to an accident or illness.

So, while cosmetic surgery is there to provide people with a way to improve their appearance mainly from an aesthetic point of view, reconstructive surgery is designed to repair damage that a person may have incurred from some external source or genetic abnormality.

Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery used to be frowned upon, but more and more people these days have begun to open up to it. We’ve seen a huge influx in the amount of people undergoing plastic surgery procedures and non-surgical procedures, while also spending more money on these surgeries than ever before.

If you have any questions about cosmetic surgery or reconstructive surgery, please contact us today at Dr. Adams Plastic Surgery. We will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the various cosmetic procedures that we offer.

As we move into 2022 we’re going to start seeing a lot of people working on themselves. At the stroke of midnight on December 31^st, millions of people across the country have told themselves that they are going to start eating healthier, working out more, and generally living a better life, but the majority of those people will only make it a few weeks before reverting back to their old ways.

In some cases folks will decide that putting in the work is too hard, or the parts of their body they want to change may not improve through typical means. They may need some outside help.

Plastic surgery can be a great way to help get yourself back into the body you’ve always wanted, or the body you had when you were younger. It can help improve your self-esteem, it can help boost your confidence level, and overall, it can just make you feel better about yourself. And ultimately that’s what new year’s resolutions are supposed to do.

But there are some people whose lives don’t improve as well as they might have thought of, or have other circumstances that can lead them to fall into a depressed state after undergoing plastic surgery.

Post-surgery depression is actually more common than you might think, but there are ways to get through it and deal with it that will help you in the long run.

Depression After Surgery

First off, we want to state that depression after surgery is normal and relatively common in a lot of patients. Most of the time it will come and go and once you’re fully healed from your procedure and things are starting to look more normal, you’ll begin to feel better about yourself. But since not everyone deals with depression the same way, and the things causing the depression aren’t the same for everyone, it’s important that we talk about it.

Most depression after surgery stems from unmanaged expectations. Immediately after your surgery, and for subsequent weeks while you heal, you’re not going to feel your best or look your best. Depending on what procedure or procedures you’ve had done, recovery time can be uncomfortable and painful. There is going to be swelling, puffiness, and redness as your body recovers from the surgery.

During this period depression can kick in as patients maybe don’t think that they look as good as they thought, or that they didn’t realize how uncomfortable they might be during recovery. This is all normal. You’re going to have good and bad days post-op and the thing to remember is that your body will heal itself and you’ll begin to feel more and more like yourself as time goes on.

The other thing you need to remember is not to set your expectations too high and to listen to your doctor.

Some people go into plastic surgery expecting life changing results and drastic improvements, but that’s not always the case. If you have a good surgeon, they should be properly helping you manage expectations so that you’re not disappointed after the surgery is complete. A good surgeon will be able to help you dial in exactly what you should expect from the surgery based on your body type and what you’re looking to have done.

Some level of depression is going to be normal after having plastic surgery, but if you’re almost through the healing process and you’re starting to physically feel like yourself again, but your depression isn’t subsiding, then it may be time to speak with a professional.

In some cases people use plastic surgery as a way to help cope with their depression. Maybe they are depressed because of the way they look, which is leading to lowered self-esteem, or something along those lines. And they are looking to plastic surgery as the solution to that depression when that might not be the fix they need.

If you are still suffering from depression after fully healing and getting the ok from your surgeon, then the root cause of your depression may still be affecting you and it may be time to seek help from a therapist.

Managing Plastic Surgery Expectations to Limit Depression

As we mentioned, properly managing your expectations within your self and with the guidance of your doctor, are the best ways to help lower the risks of developing post-surgery depression. Understanding how long it will take to fully heal and for your body to settle into its new form and structure is important in the process.

Make sure to ask lots of questions and make sure you find a doctor that isn’t afraid to be straight with you and isn’t just telling you what you want to hear. A doctor that truly cares won’t worry about losing a patient by telling them the truth about what they can expect after having a surgical procedure.

At Dr. Adams Plastic Surgery, we truly care about our patients and want what’s best for them. If you have any questions regarding plastic surgery procedures or post-surgery depression, please contact us today.

Celebrity culture has infiltrated all aspects of the media these days. It’s hard to turn on the tv or browse through social media without a big-name celebrity popping up on your screen trying to promote the next big thing or try to influence you to do something.

This has become a bit of a problem in the plastic surgery world as it puts unrealistic expectations in peoples minds when they want to improve upon their features. They see a certain celebrity with perfect skin or a “perfect” body and want a doctor to do the impossible and transform them into their idols.

That’s not to say that plastic surgery can’t boost your self-esteem or help you to look and feel better about yourself, but every body is different. What works, or looks good, for someone else may not necessarily work for you.

While breast implants and breast augmentation surgery continue to be the most popular form of plastic surgery today, other procedures are pushing ahead and starting to become just as popular as we are pushed down into this world of influencers and celebrities.

Things like face lifts, injectable fillers and other non-surgical procedures, tummy tucks, and butt lifts have all made their way into popular culture and are now at the forefront of the plastic surgery world.

Speaking of butt lifts, Brazilian butt lifts have become a big talking point in the plastic surgery world these days. Butt lifts have had a reputation of being a riskier procedure than things like breast implants only because butt lifts are a relatively new procedure overall. Plastic surgeons haven’t been performing them as often as other procedures, so they don’t have as much practice with them. But as butt lifts become more popular, the techniques used to perform these procedures have become more refined and safer.

What is a Brazilian Butt Lift and How is it Performed?

We’ve talked about procedures related to the butt previously and we want to stress that a Brazilian Butt Lift is different than butt implants. We do not recommend butt implants unless absolutely necessary, but since there are no implants involved with the Brazilian butt lift, and the procedure has come a long way over the years, a board-certified surgeon should be able to perform this procedure safely for you.

A Brazilian butt lift involves two different parts, the first part requires liposuction to remove fat from another part of your body. This fat is then injected into the butt to help create a firmer, more shapely backside for the patient.

While the name of this procedure is technically a “lift”, it’s not a lift in the same way that a breast lift or a face lift is done. The way the Brazilian butt lift is performed is using a method called a fat graft, which is fat moved from one area of the body to another.

The nice thing about a Brazilian butt lift is that there are no implants, it uses your own fat to rebuild and shape your butt, and there are less risks of complications.

Brazilian Butt Lift Recovery

After your surgery your doctor will have specific instructions for you to follow as you recover. Most doctors recommend that you refrain from sitting or laying on your buttocks for at least two weeks while your body heals. At this point your doctor will inform you if you can begin sitting with the help of an inflatable or some sort of cushion. You will need to continue to use these devise for about 8 weeks until your body has fully healed.

This means that you should be prepared to stand for the majority of the time as well as sleep on your stomach or your side until you get the ok from your doctor to resume normal sitting and sleeping habits.

In regards to lifting and every day activities, you should refrain from any heavy lifting for the duration of the recovery process as well, however light lifting after a week or so should be ok.

The entire recovery process can take up to 6 months, but it should not take that long to resume normal day-to-day activities.

How Long Does a Brazilian Butt Lift Last?

In most cases a Brazilian butt lift should last for many years, but there are situations where the fat graft doesn’t hold properly, and your surgeon may need to repeat the procedure to ensure the final results desired by the patient.

Keep in mind though, as the body naturally ages, you can begin to experience sagging and a return to pre-surgery look. Unfortunately, this procedure cannot stop the effects aging and you may need another procedure over time, but in general a Brazilian butt lift should many years and keep you feeling great about your body!

Brazilian butt lift procedures have advanced immensely over the years as they become more popular. New techniques and safety procedures have been put in place to make sure patients remain safe while experiencing the results they desire.