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Gorgeous mom of 2 👶🏼👶🏼wanted a 🅝🅐🅣🅤🅡🅐🅛 rejuvenation of her breasts without implants…

No problem!
👉🏻A little lifting and fat grafting can achieve an amazing look without implants!

✅ Age: 36 Ht: 5’3” Wt: 156lbs
✅ Procedure: Wise pattern breast lift with fat grafting
🧪 Anesthesia: General
⏰ OR Time: 1-1.5 Hours
🛏️ Recovery: 1-2 weeks acute, 4-6 weeks full activity

📧 Email: appointments@drkimsurgery.com

#momsrule #enhancednaturalbeauty #whatkids? #bodytransformation #breastlift #fatgrafting #cosmeticsurgery #postop
#bodybykim #drjohnkim #breastsbykim #boardcertifiedplasticsurgeon #chicagoplasticsurgeon #drkimsurgery

Helping this gorgeous patient get her pre baby bod

Helping this gorgeous patient get her pre baby body back 💫

✅Procedure: Abdominoplasty
🧪 Anesthesia: General
⏰ Duration: 3-4 Hours
🏥Disposition: Outpatient
🛏Healing: 4-6 weeks acute

📧 Email: appointments@drkimsurgery.com

#momsrule #bodybykim #summeriscoming☀️ #tummytuck #liposuction #boardcertifiedplasticsurgeon #drjohnkim #goldcoast #chicagoplasticsurgeon #drkimsurgery

Chicago is warming up! ☀️ This lovely patient

Chicago is warming up! ☀️
This lovely patient is beach 🏖️ready with this beautifully healed breast augmentation!

✅ Procedure: Bilateral Breast Augmentation
✅ Implants: Silicone 275 mL
🧪 Anesthesia: General
⏰ OR Time: 1-1.5 Hours
🛏️ Recovery: 1-2 weeks acute, 4-6 weeks full activity

📧 Email: appointments@drkimsurgery.com

#summerbody #summerready #bikiniready
#bodybykim #drjohnkim #breastsbykim #boardcertifiedplasticsurgeon #chicagoplasticsurgeon #drkimsurgery

Tuesday Clinic: Wes Anderson Edition 💫 #wesand

Tuesday Clinic: Wes Anderson Edition 💫

#wesandersonaesthetic #wesandersontrend #wesanderson #teamjk #tuesdayclinic #drjohnkim #chicagoplasticsurgeon #drkimsurgery #boardcertifiedplasticsurgeon

Every day is Mother’s day with us! This amazin

Every day is Mother’s day with us!

This amazing mother of 6 👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼who had gotten her weight back but had some distressing reminders of pregnancy.

👉🏻Bulging recurs
👉🏻Excess skin

We did an aggressive tummy tuck with complete diastasis repair and maximal skin excision. And a voila! ✨ She has her pre
baby body back!

✅Age: 32 Height: 5’5 Weight: 126lbs
✅Number of children: 6
✅Procedure: Abdominoplasty with Hernia Repair
🧪 Anesthesia: General
⏰ Duration: 3-4 Hours
🏥Disposition: Outpatient
🛏Healing: 4-6 weeks acute

📧 Email: appointments@drkimsurgery.com

#momsrule #byebyebelly
#bodybykim #tummytuck #liposuction #boardcertifiedplasticsurgeon #drjohnkim #chicagoplasticsurgeon #drkimsurgery

❓Fact or Fiction❓ Do you need to replace your

❓Fact or Fiction❓
Do you need to replace your implants every 10 years?

Not necessarily! If:

1) your implants are silicone and you are checking your implants as the FDA recommends with MRI or high definition ultrasound (5-6 years after implantation and every 2-3 years thereafter 📆)

AND

2) you are happy with your implants aesthetically....

Then NO--you do not need to prophylactically change your implants out. ⚠️ There is always additional cost and risk to such surgeries so please consider this when thinking of elective surgery.

⛔️ If you are unhappy with your implants or do not want to do recommended screening then the prophylactic replacement strategy is more tenable.

✅ Keep in mind rupture rates vary between approximately 9-24 percent at 10 years depending on type of implant and rupture screening criteria.

Here is an example of a patient 10 years out. She is happy with the appearance of her breasts and received a clean bill of implant health from
Her MRI--so she will be keeping her implants until the next follow up! 🌸🌺

#breastimplantsafety #breastaugmentationjourney #breastsbykim #boardcertifiedplasticsurgeon #siliconeimplants #drkimsurgery #chicagoplasticsurgeon #breastimplants #longtermrelationship