Motherhood is a beautiful thing, but it can be challenging to accept the changes that occur in a woman's body during pregnancy and childbirth. Mummy makeover surgery offers a way to regain your former body and your self-confidence.
Many women choose to have their breast implants removed and replaced at some stage. Sometimes, the decision relates to the age and condition of one or both implants, but women can have other reasons, too.
With the global demand for breast surgery continuing to rise, it’s little wonder that phrases such as ‘breast augmentation’ and ‘breast implants’ have become familiar to many of us. But despite becoming part of our routine vocabulary, how many of us know what these phrases actually mean?
Over the years, Coppergate Clinic patients have fed back their breast augmentation recuperation progress to our surgeons. Here we share patient tips along with the advice of our highly experienced breast surgeons, to help you achieve a comfortable, restorative night’s sleep - and in doing so minimise your breast augmentation surgery recovery time.
What factors cause breasts to sag in the first place? And what treatment options are available to lift breasts that have already begun to sag? We look further into some of the most common causes of sagging breasts, as well as the surgical procedures that may help to restore sagging breasts once the natural ageing process has begun.
Whomever your surgeon is at Coppergate Clinic, following surgery you will be provided with a detailed recovery plan, ensuring you experience optimal healing. But is there anything you can do to reduce downtime and post-surgery swelling?
Doing the right exercise after some types of surgery can aid the recovery process and even enhance treatment results. But how soon after breast surgery is it safe to get back to your old fitness programme and favourite sporting activities? And what kind of exercise is best?
For those women who suffer from it, macromastia, or overly large breasts, is more than just an aesthetic issue – it's also a health concern. Enlarged breasts can cause discomfort and pain in the shoulders, neck and back. But is there a ‘right’ age to have surgery? Here we explore the criteria surgeons use to determine when the time is right...
Whilst most patients have no hesitation in asking how soon they might pick up exercise, sports or intimate relations post op, we find many people are more hesitant to ask questions relating to when they should stop drinking alcohol prior to surgery and how soon they might enjoy alcohol post procedure.
With so many references to ‘plastic surgery’ in the media today, it’s a term that we’re all familiar with and have widely come to accept. But have you ever wondered where the ‘plastic’ in plastic surgery came from and what it actually means? Is it, for example, a different way of...
