Tummy Tuck Benefits

If your midsection is impacted by sagging skin, excess deposits of fat, and loose abdominal muscles, a tummy tuck can tone, strengthen, and restore ideal aesthetics to your body.

Board-certified Long Island plastic surgeon Dr. Gregory Diehl can perform a tummy tuck alone or in combination with other body contouring procedures to help you look and feel amazing about your body. Whether or not a tummy tuck can benefit you is best determined during your initial consultation.

Aesthetic and Physical Benefits

A tummy tuck can vastly improve the contours of your body which can, in turn, improve clothing options, enhance your self-esteem, and restore self-confidence. These benefits are inherent with this procedure, but certainly not the extent of what benefits a tummy tuck can offer.

If you are prepared to transform your life for the better, tummy tuck surgery may be good starting point. This procedure can make physical activities that have been either embarrassing or difficult much more accessible. It can also help improve core strength and balance, two essential components of more advanced forms of physical exertion.

Your tummy tuck benefits depend on the effort you are willing to put into obtaining and maintaining physically peak health. Dr. Diehl will be happy to discuss this with you in more detail during your initial tummy tuck consultation.

If you live in or around Long Island, New York and would like to learn how a tummy tuck can benefit you, please contact Diehl Plastic Surgery to schedule an initial consultation.

Scarring and Breast Augmentation

As with any surgical procedure, breast augmentation can result in some scarring. Board-Certified Long Island plastic surgeon Dr. Gregory Diehl takes every care to hide and minimize your scars.

Minimizing Scars

Dr. Diehl offers these options for breast augmentation incisions:

• Inframammary – underneath the breast in the crease where breast and chest meet
• Transaxillary – through the armpit

With these incisions, scars can easily be hidden. However, to avoid any scarring on the breasts at all, Transaxillary (arm pit) will be your best option.  The arm pit incision lies exactly on one of the creases in you underarm and is therefore virtually invisible when it heals.

Dr. Diehl does not recommend periareolar or around the nipple incision, because this is the most visible area of the breast and the scars will definitely be visible, especially up close.  Each incision option has both benefits and drawbacks that are specific to your body. During your initial consultation, Dr. Diehl will discuss all of your options and carefully evaluate your lifestyle and clothing choices to help you determine which incision will produce the least obvious scarring.

Your Role

You can help ensure that your incisions heal their best by following all of Dr. Diehl’s pre- and post-operative advice. This will include, keeping your incisions clean, and avoiding strenuous activities during your recovery period. All of this will be discussed in full during your initial consultation.

If you live in or around Long Island, New York and would like to learn more about your breast augmentation options, please contact Diehl Plastic Surgery to schedule an initial consultation.

Silicone vs. Saline Breast Implants

One of the breast implant options you will need to consider prior to your breast augmentation procedure is which type of implant is right for you. Long Island plastic surgeon Dr. Gregory Diehl will discuss all of your options in full during your initial consultation, but coming to your consultation with a general idea of the differences between silicone and saline breast implants can be helpful in making an informed decision.

Silicone Breast Implants

Silicone breast implants have a tendency to look and feel more like natural breast tissue. Silicone implants are also less likely to ripple or wrinkle compare to saline implants. 

Saline Breast Implants

Saline implants do not look and feel as natural as their silicone alternatives. In addition, saline implants are more prone to aesthetic imperfections such as rippling and wrinkling, although this is less of an issue if you have your implants placed below the muscles in your chest.

There is no single option best for every patient. Dr. Diehl will listen closely to your desires, inform you of all of your options, and help you determine which breast implant type is best for you.

If you live in or around Long Island, New York and would like to learn more about your breast implant options, please contact Diehl Plastic Surgery to schedule an initial consultation.

Benefits of Liposuction

Liposuction is a highly effective way to remove excess stubborn deposits of fat from nearly every area of your body. For many men and women, diet and exercise alone are insufficient at removing fat deposits from places such as thighs, abdomen, flanks, buttocks, back, chest, and neck. If you are within reach of your ideal weight, but need help ridding those last few areas of fatty deposits, board-certified Long Island plastic surgeon Dr. Gregory Diehl can use liposuction to help you reach your goals.

Liposuction Benefits

The modern liposuction techniques utilized by Dr. Diehl can remove excess fatty tissue and also encourage your skin to firm around your new contours. This is essential for obtaining a slim and toned physique.

In addition to aesthetic benefits, liposuction can act as a springboard for a healthier lifestyle. Once removed, fat will not come back, but to keep new fat from appearing, adopting a healthy lifestyle is essential. If you allow it, liposuction can be a motivating factor to begin a more rigorous exercise routine, improving not only the contours of your body, but your overall health as well.

If you live in or around Long Island, New York and would like to learn how liposuction can benefit you, please contact Diehl Plastic Surgery to schedule an initial consultation.

Correction of Breast Asymmetry

Upon close inspection, very few women have symmetrical breasts. However, if close inspection is not required to notice your asymmetry and you feel awkward or uncomfortable with the appearance of your chest, breast augmentation can be used to restore balance and increase your self-confidence.

If you are unhappy with the symmetry of your breasts, please call board-certified Long Island plastic surgeon Dr. Gregory Diehl at 877-476-8512 today to schedule an initial breast augmentation consultation.

Breast Augmentation for Asymmetry

To correct breast asymmetry, Dr. Diehl will need to carefully examine your anatomical features. Balance can often be achieved by using different sized breast implants or by combining augmentation with a breast lift or reduction. This will be based on your specific needs.

Every woman is beautifully unique. During your initial consultation it can best be determined what will preserve your individuality while providing optimal shape and symmetry to your chest.

To learn more about what breast augmentation can do for you in the Long Island, New York area, please contact Diehl Plastic Surgery to schedule an initial consultation.

Liposuction Candidates

Liposuction is the most popular body contouring procedure performed by board-certified Long Island plastic surgeon Dr. Gregory Diehl. With liposuction, Dr. Diehl can remove stubborn deposits of fat from nearly any area of your body, producing a toned and firm appearance to all treated areas.

Good Liposuction Candidates

Liposuction is not a weight loss treatment. The removal of large amounts of fat through liposuction can be dangerous and should be avoided. Therefore, you must be within reach of your goal weight to be a good candidate for liposuction.

If you are close to your ideal weight, other considerations will include:

• Your general health
• Your expectations
• Your preparedness for a surgical procedure
• Your willingness to follow Dr. Diehl’s pre- and postoperative advice

It is important to remember that once removed, fat cannot come back. This does not mean that new fat cannot accumulate. While not a requirement, the best candidates for liposuction should be willing to adopt a healthy lifestyle to ensure the longest-lasting results.

During your initial consultation with Dr. Diehl it can best be determined if liposuction can help you reach your goals.

If you live in or around Long Island, New York and would like to know if liposuction is right for you, please contact Diehl Plastic Surgery to schedule an initial consultation.

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