Background Health outcomes research has gained considerable traction over the past
decade as the medical community attempts to move beyond traditional outcome measures …

Breast implant surgery is one of the most commonly performed procedures in the field of
plastic surgery. While silicone implants are now routinely used in breast surgery, they have …

Background: Subpectoral breast implant placement has in recent history predominated in
breast reconstruction, but there has been more recent adoption of prepectoral implant …

Background: The Breast Implant Follow-up Study is a large, ongoing observational study of
women who received Natrelle round silicone-filled or saline-filled breast implants. This …

Background Direct-to-implant (DTI) and tissue expander/implant (TE/I) reconstructions are
the most common implant-based reconstructions after nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) …

Background Breast augmentation is one of the most performed cosmetic surgeries. Despite
this, patient satisfaction following breast augmentation is poorly understood. Objectives The …

Background: The BREAST-Q is a rigorously developed, well-validated, patient-reported
outcome instrument with a module designed for evaluating breast augmentation outcomes …

An agreed definition for cosmetic surgery would be helpful for the purposes of discourse on
ethics, patient safety, healthcare policy and health economics. One of the problems with …

Background: Besides being a procedure with high level of patient satisfaction, one of the
main causes for reoperation after breast augmentation is related to contour deformities and …

Background: For primary breast augmentation, several implant selection systems have been
described to guide the surgeon with choosing from a variety of manufactured implant …