Category: Body

Many women breastfeed successfully after breast augmentation, pregnancy does not typically damage an implant, and mammograms remain both possible and important. Each of those statements carries a caveat that deserves a full explanation rather than a reassuring headline, and the caveats differ from one another. This guide treats the three topics separately, as part of […]

Breast Implant Safety and Monitoring, Rupture, Capsular Contracture and BIA-ALCL Breast implants are regulated medical devices used in large numbers worldwide, and serious implant-associated disease is rare. Implants are nonetheless not lifetime devices, complications do occur, and current information is the basis of a sound decision. As Dr Naidu tells his patients, “Implants do not […]

Breast implants are not lifetime devices, and a proportion of patients will eventually consider further surgery, whether their operation was last year or twenty years ago. That surgery may exchange the implants, adjust their position, treat capsular contracture, or remove the implants altogether. None of this means the original surgery failed. Implants are manufactured devices […]

Quick answer Paraphimosis is when a foreskin has been pulled back behind the head of the penis and cannot be returned to its normal position. The trapped ring of skin acts like a tight band, blood and fluid cannot drain, and the head swells progressively. It is a urological emergency because the swelling can restrict […]

Implants add defined and predictable volume, fat transfer adds moderate volume using the patient’s own tissue, and a breast lift repositions and reshapes the breast without primarily adding volume. Choosing between them starts with naming the dominant concern, whether that is size, shape, droop, or a combination, because each operation corrects a different problem and […]

Quick answer Balanitis is inflammation of the head of the penis, and it causes redness, soreness, itch, swelling and sometimes a discharge or an unpleasant smell. A single episode is common and usually settles with attention to hygiene and a short course of topical or oral antibiotics. Repeated episodes point to an underlying reason, most […]

Quick answer The window from 6 to 12 is a practical age for circumcision, and it is the age from which The Clifford Surgery treats boys. By 6, most boys can be treated with numbing cream and local anaesthesia while awake, which avoids general anaesthesia altogether. They can follow simple instructions, cooperate with the doctor, […]

Where the implant sits (the pocket, or placement) and where the incision is made are two separate surgical decisions, although patient information often presents “under the muscle,” “through the nipple” and “through the armpit” as a single list of options. Most incision routes can in fact serve several placements, and each decision carries its own […]

Most patients are walking on the day of breast augmentation surgery, return to desk work within days rather than weeks, and are cleared for full exercise in stages over about six weeks. The exact pace depends on the surgery performed, particularly the placement plane, on the physical demands of the patient’s occupation, and on the […]

Quick answer Diabetes is one of the most common reasons a man develops a tight foreskin in adulthood. Elevated blood sugar promotes repeated infection of the head of the penis and foreskin. Each episode of inflammation leaves a little more scarring, which gradually tightens the foreskin opening. Once that scarring is established, creams frequently fail. Circumcision becomes the definitive […]