Aesthetic Breast Surgery in Korean

Breast surgery is fully justified only in aesthetic perspectives. Although there are largely two areas in breast surgery, reconstruction and aesthetic, they frequently overlap each other. A reconstructed breast, therefore, should be aesthetically as natural as possible and similar to the contralateral one, even if this means reproducing some little defects. The authors present our experience of recent 6 years in breast reconstruction with an aesthetic eye and an artistic touch, and illustrate personal tips and technical adjustments: use of anatomical prostheses, autologous tissue transfer, axillary fold and nipple-areola complex reconstruction, including augmentation mammaplasty(implant, fat injection) and reduction mammaplasty. In 6 years, 178 cases of breast surgery were performed. Breast reconstruction(post-mastectomy, post burn deformity, congenital deformity etc) was 106 cases. There were 83 TRAM free flap cases, 10 Latissimus dorsi free flap cases. 7 cases using tissue expander and breast implant and 6 were fat graft cases. Number of breast augmentation was 35(25 submuscular, 10 subglandular). Breast reduction procedure was performed in 37 cases(13 periareolar, 8 vertical, 14 inferior pyramidal and 2 free nipple graft technique). The factors characterizing aesthetic results are profiles of breast(projection, inframammary fold location, superficial evenness, and ptosis), symmetry, axillary fold, areola, and nipple. In every procedure, we take account above factors, and results were satisfactory both surgically and aesthetically.

Correction of Nonunion of Zygoma Body after Aesthetic Reduction Malarplasty

The Asian face is generally shorter and wider than western face whose face is dolichocephaly. Therefore the reduction malarplasty is one of the common aesthetic surgery performed in Asians. As the number of cases of aesthetic reduction malarplasty including osteotomy technique of zygoma body increase, the complications related to the osteotomy also increase. Among the various complications, if the ostotomized zygoma body does not heal or reunite, it may cause a serious problem not only to the surgeon but also to the patients. From June 2002 to July 2003, the authors experienced 5 patients whose zygoma body did not reunite after reducing their malar prominence at other clinic. Their major complains were subjective discomfort at the operated site, depression on malar eminence, abnormal click sound on mouth opening, etc. None of them had any evidence of rigid fixation on their osteotomy of the zygoma body. The Rib bone was harvested and grafted to the bone gap due to the nonunion of zygoma body. All grafted bones were rigidly fixed and survived. In conclusion, bone to bone contact without soft tissue impingement should be preserved for the bone healing after zygoma body osteotomy. Therefore the rigid fixation method of osteotomy is the fundamental element during the operation. The rib bone interpositional graft can be one of the solution methods in the unfortunate nonunion cases.