1. Wanting to go natural and not to worry about having to monitor their breast implants with mammogram.
2. Not to constantly worry about if their silicone breast  implants have ruptured, but they don’t know about it. Removal of silicone breast implants eliminates the need to have yearly silicone breast implant surveillance with MRI scans.
3. Woman  with very glandular or lumpy breasts often have a hard time with breast cancer self examination. Having breasts implants might    make it more difficult for these women to examine their breasts for breast lumps or possible breast cancer.
4. Women who have had old silicone implants are at a much higher risk for silicone breast implant rupture. Therefore, they might elect to have their old silicone breast implants removed.
5. Women with very thin breast skin can often feel their implants,  or even see breast implant ripples.  This bothers some women who then decide to have their breast implants removed or replaced.
6. Breasts often enlarge with weight  gain. Women who have experienced significant breast enlargement with weight gain decide to have their
   breast implants removed in order to make the size of their breasts more manageable.
7. Replacement of breast implants with a bigger or smaller size as well as different profiles and material is the most common reason why women decide to have their original breast implant removed.
8. Breast implant hardening (capsular contraction) can be very painful. Capsulectomy or removal of hardened breast capsule along with replacement of breast implants is the treatment of choice. Unfortunately, there are women who develop recurrent breast implant hardening and finally decide just to have their breast implants removed.

The decision to undergo breast implant removal, exchange, or revision in Beverly Hills is a very complex one. There are many important factors to be considered depending on your breast size, shape, and your overall figure. Dr. Younai is Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with many years of experience and expertise in the field of breast enhancement surgery. Dr. Sean Younai receives patients at the California Center for Plastic Surgery from the Northern as well as the Southern California region for procedures such as breast augmentation revision, capsulectomy, breast implant removal or exchange, breast lift, breast reconstruction, and correction of complex breast deformities. He receives patients from many surrounding cities include Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village,
Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.

During your consultation Dr. Younai will try to answer all your questions and will review your treatment options for breast augmentation revision, including pros and cons of each techniques, potential risks and complications, recovery course, pre and post operative instructions, and esthetic outcomes. You will also have an opportunity to “try on” different types of saline or silicone breast implants. There are also many before-and-after pictures and high resolution
images of breast augmentation and breast implant exchange available in our photo gallery.

Los Angeles women from all colors and ethnicities are now asking for bigger, perkier, and more curvaceous butts. They waist millions of dollars buying buttock enlargement creams, pills, and underwear pads. Women are spending countless hours in the gym every day doing squats and lounges in order to get firmer and bigger buttocks.

According to one of the experts in Brazilian Buttock Augmentation, Dr. Sean Younai, “before every women wanted big breasts, now everyone wants big butts”. There is a saying in Los Angeles by African American men- “how come all white women now have big booty”.  The answer is buttock augmentation.

Dr. Younai, who is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon in Los Angles with a specialty in body contouring and buttock augmentation, receives patients from all over the United States and abroad asking for the Brazilian Buttock Augmentation procedure. Being sexy is no longer being thin, but to have voluptuous curves in all the right places.

This Beverly Hills buttock augmentation specialist uses the latest technique of fat grafting of the Gluteus muscles for naturally enlarging the buttocks. This method of buttock augmentation has extremely low risks with excellent outcome. Unlike the buttock implants and silicone buttock injections which carry a very high risk of infection, disfigurement, and long term side effects; fat grafting is a very natural, safe, and a sure way for women to get the full buttocks that they always wanted.

One of the biggest misconceptions about the results of buttock enlargement with fat grafting is that it does not last, the buttock shrinks, and that repeated fat injections might be required in order to maintain size. For this reason some advocate using buttock implants. Dr.  Younai argues against using risky butt implants, and instead uses the patient’s own fat to naturally enhance their buttocks. Especially with his proprietary technique of stem cell micro-fat grafting, he has been able to get consistent long term excellent results. His patients say that over the years, with weight loss, or gain, and even with childbirth, they have been able to maintain their buttock size, shape, and fullness.  This has offered patients a sure way to achieve the sexy look that they could have never accomplished before.  

Maybe, all the hype about seeing big booties among popular reality show stars is what actually sparked women’s inner desire to achieve the sexy voluptuous body that they always wanted.  That brings the field of cosmetic plastic surgery to the time when making stick-figured women with big breasts is out and making curvaceous women with big butts is in!

These are Buttock Augmentation before and after pictures and photos of a 27 years old Hispanic woman from Los Angeles with wide and flat buttocks who wanted round, shapely and projected butt. Patient underwent Brazilian Butt Lift or Buttock Augmentation surgery utilizing Liposculpture and fat injection and fat grafting to the butt in Beverly Hills.

Buttock Augmentation was performed by Dr. Sean Younai who is a Board Certified Cosmetic Plastic Surgeon practicing in Southern California, offering services of Butt Augmentation, Brazilian Butt Lift, Body Lift, Tummy Tuck/ Abdominoplasty, Thigh Lift, Liposculpture, Tumescent liposuction, Large-volume-liposuction, and butt Implant Placement for men and women from Northern and Southern California including cities of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.

As natural breasts change with age, so do those that have been enhanced with breast implants.

As you consider to further enhance the appearance of your aging breasts, change your breast implants, or to revise your previous breast augmentation you should consider the following information.

Choosing to change your breast implants in Los Angeles

You may want to replace your breast implants to improve breast size, shape or feel and to improve your breasts’ proportions to the body as a whole.  The current position of your existing implant, your desired breast size, shape and projection, along with your natural breast tissue, body size and frame are all evaluated to determine the implant that can best improve your body image.

A breast that has been enlarged with an implant can sag due to changes in breast tissue.  When natural breast tissue loses firmness or thins with age, an implant positioned between the breast tissue and chest muscle (submammary or subglandular) may droop.  Revising implant size and shape alone may provide some improvement.  The addition of breast lift techniques may be recommended to reshape sagging breast tissue.  Revising the position of an implant beneath the chest muscle (submuscular) may also be recommended.

Sagging breast tissue and an implant originally placed beneath the chest muscle may result in a “double bubble” effect- the breast implant stays in position, but the breast tissue and skin sag beneath the implant.  Placing a new implant that differs in size or shape from the original may provide some improvement.  However, in most cases, breast lift techniques are recommended to reshape the breast tissue in addition to implant replacement.

Breast implants surveillance:

It is recommended for all women, whether they do or don’t have breast implants, to obtain their first mammogram at age 40 and then annually. If you have breast implants, it is also advised that you visit your plastic surgeon annually to assess the condition of your breast implants.  Your plastic surgeon may advise you to replace any breast implant that has deflated, is leaking, or whose shell shows signs of fracture or other weakness.  It may be appropriate to replace only the implant that is not functioning properly.  However, you may take the opportunity or be advised to consider a change in breast size or shape to maintain balanced proportions between the breast and body.

Breast implant replacement may also be recommended in some cases of capsular contracture, a condition in which excessive scar tissue develops around the implant, causing an unnaturally firm feeling or squeezed appearance of the breast.  Breast implant replacement alone may improve limited instances of capsular contracture.  However, in many cases, the capsule, or scar tissue, may need to be surgically released or removed to improve the feel and appearance of your breasts.

Who may consider breast implant replacement surgery?

A woman with previously enhanced breasts or a reconstructed breast may choose or ay be advised to replace her current breast implants or to revise breast appearance.  The following factors generally define good candidates:

• You can clearly define the improvement you seek from breast surgery and you don’t expect perfection.

• You understand the outcomes that breast surgery can and cannot achieve for your appearance.

• You accept your responsibilities as a patient and the potential risks of breast surgery.

• You are in good health, emotionally secure and your life is stable.

• You accept that healthy lifestyle choices will help you maintain the improvement achieved by breast surgery.

MAKING THE CHOICE

The first step in any form of breast surgery, including implant replacement or revision of prior breast surgery, is a consultation with a plastic surgeon certified by The American Board of Plastic surgery.  During your consultation you will discuss your goals to improve the appearance of your breasts.  You will be examined, a health history will be taken and you may be photographed.  The procedure or procedures recommended for you will be explained.  You will be informed about your obligations as a patient, the treatment process, surgical facilities, anesthesia, the recovery process, potential complications and results, and any alternative options that may achieve your goals.  Ask questions and make certain you understand everything that has been explained to you.

All forms of necessary or cosmetic medical treatment carry the potential for complications.  The potential complications and unexpected results of breast surgery will be illustrated prior to your treatment.  If you make the choice to undergo treatment, you will be asked to sign informed consent documents.  These documents outline the information discussed during your consultation and record your choice for breast surgery.  In addition, if your choice is a silicone breast implant, you will be asked to participate in a national breast implant registry.

Dr. Sean Younai is Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with many years of experience and expertise in the field of breast enhancement surgery. During your consultation Dr. Younai will try to answer all your questions and will review your treatment options for breast augmentation, including pros and cons of each techniques, potential risks and complications, recovery course, pre and post-operative instructions, and esthetic outcomes. You will also have an opportunity to “try on” different types of saline or silicone breast implants. There are also many before-and-after pictures and high resolution images of breast augmentation and breast implant exchange available in our photo gallery.

Dr. Sean Younai receives patients at the California Center for Plastic Surgery from the Northern as well as the Southern California region for procedures such as breast augmentation, revision breast surgery, capsulectomy, breast implant removal or exchange, breast lift, breast reconstruction, and correction of complex breast deformities. He receives patients from many surrounding cities include Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.

In Beverly Hills, breast lift plastic surgery or mastopexy has given women the freedom to dress more freely and to look more beautiful and sexy. While breast implants enlarge breast size, they do not lift sagging breasts. Beverly Hills women who have bear children and breast fed are often saddened by having droopy breasts, even if they have had breast augmentation. Contrary to the popular notion that breast augmentation lifts sagging breasts; saline or silicone breast implants do not lift breasts significantly. So what are the options for Beverly Hills women whose breasts have sagged after childbirth or weight loss?

Mastopexy is a breast lift procedure that lifts the breast tissue and nipple to it normal level over the chest. In Beverly Hills there are different types of mastopexy procedures performed by plastic surgeons. Often breast lift, or mastopexy, is combined with breast augmentation, in a cosmetic surgery procedure that is called augmentopexy. The technique of breast lift surgery depends on the degree of breast dropping.

In cases of mild breast ptosis, or sagging, most Beverly Hills plastic surgeons choose to do a Crescent breast lift, which involves removing a crescent shape amount of breast skin above the areola and then tacking up the nipple areola complex.

In case of mild to moderate breast ptosis, or sagging, most Los Angeles plastic surgeons choose to perform a peri-areolar or Benelli mastopexy. With this technique of breast lift a doughnut shaped area of skin is removed from around the areola and the surrounding breast skin is tightened in a purse sting around the areola. The advantage of this breast lift technique is that its scar is well hidden at the periphery of the areola.

For Beverly Hills women who have severe breast sagging as a result of massive weight loss, gastric bypass, pregnancy, or just aging, an inverted-t, or anchor mastopexy is the breast lift technique of choice. The axis of this anchor goes vertically from the nipple/areola to the under-breast fold, and the legs of the anchor fall in the under-breast fold. This breast lift technique offers the tightest lift with the best longevity.

Beverly Hills and Los Angeles women who seek breast lift plastic surgery should now that although mastopexy is an effective procedure, breasts can re-sag through the normal aging process. Wearing bra support, choosing not too large and heavy implants, and avoiding great fluctuations in weight can help slow down the sagging process.

Before considering breast lift surgery in Beverly Hills, you should carefully discuss your plastic surgery options with your Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon. Finally, don’t forget to review before-and-after pictures of mastopexy or augmentopexy on plastic surgery photo gallery.

African American Rhinoplasty

In order to achieve a natural looking nose during an Ethnic Rhinoplasty a plastic surgeon has to be aware of several fundamental differences between an African American and a Caucasian nose. A black person’s nose is typically wider at the nostrils, more flared, and has less nasal tip projection. Also African Americans typically do not have a prominent bridge. In order to make an African nose more proportional and balanced, augmentation of the nasal bridge is usually required. Nasal augmentation is achieved either with the use of a nasal implant or that of a cartilage graft. The size and width of the nostrils is also reduced to a more normal proportion, and the nasal tip is raised.

There are several limitations in performing a rhinoplasty on an African-American. Because the nasal skin of an African American person is relatively thicker than that of a Caucasian the same level of refinement and definition can seldom be achieved in an African-American nose surgery. Therefore, the nasal tip often remains rounder and less sharp, and the nostrils (ala) skin usually stays thicker.

African American Rhinoplasty

Because of a propensity for developing keloid scarring the incisions in an African American nasal surgery have to be carefully and strategically placed, for example in the nostril creases. Likewise, an open Rhinoplasty should be avoided.

Dr. Sean Younai is a Board Certified Plastic & Cosmetic Surgeon in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills who specializes in Nasal and Facial Plastic Surgery. Dr. Younai is experienced in Ethnic rhinoplasty for African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Middle Easterns, and Europeans. Dr. Younai also performs Otoplasty, blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), lip reduction, forehead lift, and facelift. At the California Center for Plastic Surgery, Dr. Younai receives patients from Northern and Southern California including cities of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.

large volume liposuction

Large Volume Liposuction can drastically reduce dress size by removing unwanted fat from selected body areas, instead of the whole body as experienced with bariatric surgery. Meanwhile, this method of liposuction keeps full other body areas such as the buttocks, breasts, and the face. Among overweight people in Los Angeles, there are many that have changed their lifestyle and eating habits in a way not to gain any further weight. Despite their sacrifice they become frustrated with their inability to lose weight in right areas of their body. For example, they wished that they could reduce their thigh size to the portion of their upper body. Some want to only lose weight in their gut without getting thinner legs. These people find large volume liposuction as an effective alternative to Bariatric surgery.

Large volume liposuction was born out of the desire of plus size women to look curvy and sexy, without having to become too thin. Large volume liposuction accomplishes more than weight loss; it provides heavy set men and women with the shape and figure that they always wanted.  This is accomplished safely when liposuction is performed by a board certified plastic surgeon who has the depth of knowledge, experience, and support structure to conduct large volume liposuction.

large volume liposuction

Doctor Sean Younai, MD, FACS, is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon in Los Angeles who has been performing body contouring and large volume liposuction for more than a decade. As a large-volume liposuction specialist he is routinely sought by patients from all over the United States and abroad.  Locally, he serves men and women from the Northern as well as the Southern California regions. Some of these cities are Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.

During your consultation at the California Center for Plastic Surgery, Dr. Younai reviews your treatment options for body contouring and Liposuction, including pros and cons, potential risks and complications, recovery course, pre and post operative instructions, and esthetic outcomes. In our photo gallery, there are also available many before-and-after pictures and high resolution images of plus size people who have had large-volume Liposuction.

While most Caucasian women seek cosmetic plastic surgery in order to obtain a smaller and more petite figure, most African-American women don’t mind being full bodied. Instead, they rather have a curvaceous figure with a full buttock.

 The failure to note this difference in expectations among different ethnicities can often lead to the disappointment of African-American women who have gone through plastic surgery, only to find themselves with a less attractive “stick-figure” body. 

The first picture is that of an African-American women who had a tummy tuck in Beverly Hills. She told me that while she got rid off her hanging abdominal skin fold with a tummy tuck she still did not like the final result of her Abdominoplasty because of lack of shape.

The second photo is that of the same woman after a revision abdominoplasty and liposuction by me. Note the difference in shape, curves, and figure. This is what most African American women say they want. Black women don’t necessarily want to get thinner, but more curvaceous.

As the ethnic diversity changes in the United States plastic surgeons should pay closer attention to the notion of beauty among different ethnicities.

fat grafting to face

In Los Angeles facial plastic surgery is changing every day as women are opting to have cosmetic surgery at a younger age. The goal of today’s Los Angeles woman is to maintain their youthful appearance by undergoing smaller and less invasive facial plastic surgery procedures in Los Angeles. Facial fat grafting is one such cosmetic surgery procedure which helps restore youthful facial fullness by filling the deep nasolabial folds, lower eyelid hollows, forehead wrinkles, and frown lines.

In Los Angeles and Beverly Hills facial fat grafting is rather a simple procedure with minimal discomfort and recovery. While simple in theory, it is rather a powerful tool which delivers significant facial rejuvenation while maintaining the natural appearance of the face and eyes. Unlike a facelift, facial and eyelid fat injections, does not give a pulled or mask-like facial appearance. That is precisely why facial fat grafting is utilized as an adjunct to facelift, forehead lift, and mid-facelift in order to deliver a more natural look. While older facial rejuvenation techniques such as a standard facelift focus on reversing the effects of gravity, today’s combined facelift techniques that are performed throughout Los Angeles also focus on restoring facial volume and fullness that exists during youth.

Fat grafting of the eyelids and the face can be performed under sedation or general anesthesia depending on the extent of surgery. First, unwanted abdominal or thigh fat is harvested with liposuction. Then this harvested fat is cleaned and processed in order to increase its survivability. Finally, this processed fat is carefully injected into the deep and superficial planes of the face and eyelids. This is where the skills of an expert Board Certified Plastic Surgeon comes into play.

Micro-fat grafting of the eyelids fills the hollows while smoothening some of the fine lines, shallow furrows, and grooves. It is often combined with a blepharoplasty or eyelid tuck which removes excess eyelid skin folds.

Facial fat grafting of the nasolabial folds and the cheeks soften the facial lines while contouring the face to give high and youthful cheeks. This can be combined with a mid-facelift, and/or blepharoplasty, or cheek implants in order to rejuvenate the middle face of a woman who is still too young to have a facelift.

While many younger women often want fuller and sexier lips many older women overlook the fact that aging thins out the lips. Restoring fullness to the lips is maybe one of the most overlooked steps in rejuvenating the aging face. Micro-fat grafting of the lips can bring back youth not only to the lips but also to the entire face.

Finally, the combination of all mentioned facial fat grafting procedures into a total re-contouring of the face is call “Structural facial fat grafting” which revives the cheeks, nasolabial folds, eyelids, foreheads, jaw lines, and lips. It is not uncommon to combine structural fat grafting with other facial cosmetic surgery procedures in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles.

Dr. Sean Younai is a Board Certified Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon with experience in all aspects of Facial Cosmetic Surgery including Structural fat grafting, micro-fat grafting, facelift or Rhytidectomy, eyelid surgery or blepharoplasty, neck lift, forehead or brow lift, rhinoplasty, etc. He is skilled and experienced in the latest techniques of facial rejuvenation surgery and strives to create a face that is natural and normal looking. During your consultation he will discuss all details including: if you are a good candidate, surgical options and techniques, potential risks and complications of surgery, pre- and post-operative instructions, and recovery course, as well as what to expect after surgery. At that time Dr. Younai will also show you before-and-after pictures of other patients with facial cosmetic surgery, who might be similar to you.  

Dr. Younai performs all types of Facial Cosmetic Surgery procedures including facial fat grafting for patients who come to the California Center for Plastic Surgery from the Northern as well as the Southern California region. Some of these cities include Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Hollywood, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Stockton, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.