Belly-button breast implant surgery leaves minimal scaring
By Christi Myers
(11/10/06 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - It's got a weird name, but the surgery is quickly gaining popularity, belly button breast implants.
They do two things women want shrink the incision size and the recovery time.
"After three kids, I wanted to get back to my teenaged days I guess," said patient Pam Viereck.
We met Pam Viereck two weeks after she got the belly-button breast implants.
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"I absolutely love it," said Viereck. "I would do it again."
The augmentation procedure is actually named TUBA, transumbilical breast augmentation.
The surgery takes about 30-45 minutes and no incision is made on or around the breast.
An inch to inch and a half incision is made in the belly-button and a small tube is run up to the breast. A deflated breast implant is inserted, and filled with saline. Then the tube is removed.
"You're sore around the breast area, arm movement is limited they tell you and the abdomen," said Viereck.
"The benefit is no scar under the breast, around the breast, or near the breast," said plastic surgeon Dr. Mark Schusterman.
"It felt like I'd been punched in the stomach," said patient Panda Weiser. "I was bruised but not my chest, really just my stomach."
Yet, patients like Panda recovered in two to three days instead of a week.
"I was up and running around with my kids that night,' said Weiser.
The procedure, developed by a Houston surgeon, has been around for a decade, but until lately hasn't been offered by many surgeons.
"When I finally tried it, cut here and saw their results and saw how happy they were I thought that's it we've got to doing this now," said Dr. Schusterman.
A month out, Weiser didn't have much scarring on her belly-button. The cost is about $4,600.
10 years ago I would have laughed my ass off for even thinking it....but I'll tell yah what...I have had to work my ass off to keep the twins and fight gravity??!!! To some women I am sure it is easier than all the work outs and shit.
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And your point is???? Don't have one? Well then shut up and I'll give you one!
I would never tell a woman that she's wrong for having it, I just don't understand it. And in some cases - certainly not all - I do think it's about low self esteem and feeling that the best (if not all) they have to offer is a big boobed body. And those are often the women who want to find a guy that's "real." But then I don't like fake fingernails either, lol.
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oh yes, you must always satisfy the monkey. Strong and Beautiful smells like a monkey
true, and along with mother hood, that helps "lower" them to a degree also.
The fake ones wont hurt your back. they arent as heavy and they float.
perky with me went out the window at the age of about 17. If I get preggers, my oh my I am going to be one big busted girl. (Im in between a D and DD, so......I sleep in sports bras for comfort)
I watch that Discovery Health channel and they show the plastic surgury procedures....OUCH!!!!!!!!! I still have what God graced me with, but I miss the twenty perk???? I thought about it once....then I watched that channel....fuck that!
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And your point is???? Don't have one? Well then shut up and I'll give you one!
By Christi Myers
oh yes, you must always satisfy the monkey. 
And your point is???? Don't have one? Well then shut up and I'll give you one!
I thought about it once....then I watched that channel....fuck that!
