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Santa Fe, NM – Yesterday (Friday) was indeed another great day the 25th Annual Breast Surgery and Body Contouring Symposium. Saturday’s discussion and instructional plastic surgery courses were far better. I can easily say the meeting is a 10 out of 10.

I really came to this meeting to find any and many updates on the latest plastic surgery techniques. The topics for the day?

It all started with tummy tuck, lipo, and tummy tuck and liposuction. In the middle, we heard about bodylift after major weight loss, arm lift, and thigh lift. Then we finished the day with buttock augmentation and buttock lifting.

I have to tell all, this meeting was truly eye-opening. I saw wonderful results from techniques similar to those I use, but will likely begin fine-tuning my own cases to continue to achieve better and safer results with body contouring and cosmetic surgery.

Based on what I have learned, what am I going to add?

I am going to add a 5 mm liposuction cannula for my future plastic surgery cases. This size of cannula adds a little more fat for fat harvest and fat injection, especially when it come to buttock augmentation. I plan to use this in zone 4 of the back when I perform Brazillian Butt Lift. I have always been a strong advocate of small lipo cannulas, the biggest I routinely use is a 4 mm, because these improved the results. In fat grafting surgery, I clearly saw the advantage of having a 5 mm exploded basket tip cannula for fat harvest.

What else? I was impressed about incision location options for the lower body lift.  I currently use an incision which is low. I prefer that because plastic surgery clients in Scottsdale, Arizona also prefer a lower incision which is easier to hide. The advantage of the higher incision relates to the contour which is achieved. A higher incision allows the patients to have more of an hour-glass contour, which is quite attractive.

It was another good day for the basic science and technique of fat harvest and fat injections. The discussion Saturday focused on the various techniques employed by different surgeons for fat grafting. It is easy to note that no one seems to use the same technique and everyone discussed was slightly different from the next.

The day in the main lecture area was wrapped up with buttock augmentation via fat grafting. The symposium was sponsored by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.