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Surgery is an ancient craft, which has been practiced for millennia.  In many cases the surgeon informs the patient how they will use their expertise to manipulate or investigate a disease or injury to help improve function.

Pregnancy and breastfeeding oftentimes bring about drastic changes to a woman’s breast tissue. Although breast changes during pregnancy and lactation are highly variable between women, much of the time breasts swell,

Capsular contracture is the term for the formation of scar tissue around a breast implant. This is your body’s natural immune response to segment off a foreign object, in this case your implant.

Whether it’s a little extra roll here or not enough curves there, we all have things we’d like to change about our bodies. If you can relate, why wait any longer?

A long-time champion for the rights of breast cancer patients, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) has been praised for its efforts in pushing Congress to enact the Breast Cancer Patient Education Act (BCPEA) this past December.

In recent years, the abundance of celebrity headlines and TV shows involving plastic surgery has made certain procedures, like breast augmentation and liposuction, appear commonplace and harmless. While this is almost always true of procedures performed by board-certified plastic surgeons such as Dr.

In October, Dr. John Kim traveled to Boston, MA for American Society of Plastic Surgeons The Meeting, an annual conference where plastic surgeons from around the globe convene to learn from the brightest minds in their field.

One of Chicago plastic surgeon Dr. John Kim’s most requested procedures is the “Mommy Makeover,” in which he performs both a breast lift and tummy tuck in the same surgery. A convenient and cost-effective approach to restoring a woman’s shape and confidence,

As with any surgery, breast augmentation and reconstruction are not without their own sets of risks. Silicone gel breast implants are the most popular choice because of the natural feel and softness of the implants. For many patients,

Oftentimes the final step in a woman’s breast reconstruction journey, autologous fat grafting is used to smooth and shape reconstructed breasts with the patient’s own fat cells. During mastectomy, the oncologic surgeon removes all breast tissue,