Dr. Ted Eisenberg

Let’s bust a myth: You don’t have to sleep on your back after your surgery. You don’t have to stay up all night to make sure you don’t doze off and turn over onto your stomach. You can sleep any way you want from the night of surgery on, including on your stomach if you’re comfortable enough.

My partner wants me to get breast implants. What do you think? Only two women out of 7000 have ever asked me this question. If you told me you were happy with how you look, I’d tell you to go home. The surgery has to be for you, not to please someone else. Although some men might have the fantasy that women get breast augmentation surgery to make them happy, they are wrong. Women primarily get implants to make themselves happy. They tell me that they’re tired of padding their bras and they want their clothes to fit better. They want to feel more feminine and less self-conscious, and most of all, they want to look natural and proportional.

It's 28 degrees right now in Philly, which made me ponder: Do breast implants freeze up in really cold weather? It turns out that outside of the body, a saline implant would freeze at 28 degrees! (Good news that they're inside!) A silicone gel implant would ice up at around 170 below zero. Because your breast implants are close to your body, your natural body heat will keep them warm. As one blogger wrote, Even if theoretically you were like a reptile or something and had no body heat, the freezing point of the material used in the implants would be pretty low. In other words, your implants could freeze, but before they did, you would die of hypothermia (dangerously low body temperature).

Breast augmentation forums are filled with comments like this: I love my breast implants, but I wish I went bigger and Worth it but kinda wish I went bigger. After doing thousands of cosmetic breast surgery consultations, I’ve identified 4 reasons that women might hold back from choosing the breast size they really want. If you can avoid these traps, you’ll likely be very satisfied with your choice after surgery. Read all about it in my latest blog: https://www.lookingnatural.com/breast-i/wish-i-went-bigger/

Something to distract you on this pre-election day... a blast from the past: Barbie's little sister, Skipper, could transform herself from a cute little girl to a tall curvy teenager in seconds. When you rotated Growing Up Skipper's left arm, she got an inch taller and breasts would appear on her rubber torso. When you turned her arm in the other direction, she became a kid again. Growing Up Skipper created a controversy when it was released in 1975; it was off the market two years later. Mattel never made a Growing Up Ken!

I was invited to write an article for this professional journal about how COVID-19 affected me personally and professionally. I was delighted to see it in print yesterday! Ted Eisenberg

Redheads come in clusters, wrote Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer, who studied coincidences when he wasn’t studying salamanders. In the early 1900s, he spent hours on the streets of Vienna recording the height, hair color and type of hat worn by passersby. He observed that men with red hair tended to pass by in clusters often in threes proof of his law of series. Over the past 10 years, I’ve made a similar observation, which I call the Breast Augmentation Patient Clust...er Phenomenon. When I review the charts in the operating room before surgery, I notice similarities: Everyone’s tall today, or Everyone has a tattoo or piercing, or All of the patients are named Jamie and so is one of the nurses! Is it a cosmic biorhythm or an unexplainable phenomenon? The law of truly large numbers states that with a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. I’ve performed more than breast augmentations and breast lifts, so perhaps I have a large enough sample. I don’t know if these patient groupings are statistically inevitable or proof of Kammerer’s law, but I do know that my staff doesn’t arrange the surgical schedule this way; women choose their surgery date according to their convenience. https://www.lookingnatural.com//breast-augmentation-patie/

During pregnancy, breast enlarge from hormonal changes and milk production. Afterwards, you breasts might return to their original size, get bigger, smaller, or droopier. You won’t know the verdict until 6 months after you’ve stopped breastfeeding, or if you’re not, 6 months after childbirth. If you're a #breastlift or #breastaugmention, it's best to wait until then so you know your true starting size and shape.

In these challenging times, if you're looking to perk up your spirits as well as your breasts, read on! If your breasts are mildly droopy, a saline or silicone gel implant placed behind the pectoral muscle might help create the illusion of perkiness. That’s because as the implant fills out the top of the breast, it also fills out the bottom, making it look as if the nipple has moved higher. It hasn’t. If your breasts are moderately to severely droopy and you get breast impla...nts, it could look as if you have four breasts, with the breast implants up high and your natural breasts down low. A breast lift (mastopexy), with or without implants, would be a better choice; it would restore the breasts to a more youthful look by repositioning the nipples at a higher position and removing excess skin. Dr. Eisenberg's I.D.E.A.L. Breast Lift is a ground-breaking technique for a breast lift alone or simultaneous breast augmentation and lift surgery. It perks up saggy breasts by raising and reshaping them and giving them a more youthful look.

It was exciting to wake up last Friday and see that "The Scoop On Breasts: A Plastic Surgeon Busts the Myths," which I wrote with my wife, Joyce, in 2013, was No. 1 on Amazon. And it’s fun when the book gets reviews like this: "The book . . .. is like having Dr. Eisenberg in your pocket." #breastaugmentation #breastimplants

Summer's just a week away, and if you're thinking about having cosmetic breast surgery and then heading to the beach, here's your timeframe.

A Billion reasons to read The Scoop On Breasts: In 2013, Joyce and I went to Hollywood to be part of the Oscar Gifting suite before the Academy Awards. We got to meet David Costabile, who had just appeared in the movie Lincoln," and we gave him a copy of our then new book, The Scoop On Breasts: A Plastic Surgeon Busts the Myths. For the past five seasons, he’s played Mike Wags Wagner on the TV show Billions, and we’re big fans. We get a kick out of knowing him. #breastaugmentation #breastlift #breastimplants

Philly Happening announced the 2020 Happening List results: I'm proud to be the winner in the category of Cosmetic Surgery for the 7th year in a row! I'm honored to be the winner, but even more so, I’m grateful to the thousands of women who have put their trust and confidence in me as their surgeon. I’m also grateful for what my patients have taught me: Women know what they want! During medical and surgical training, we are taught that we should know the answers, that we are the authority. But I’ve discovered that women know best. My job is to listen carefully and to determine if there is a match between their goals and what I can accomplish. #breastimplants #breastlift

After a 10-week hiatus because of the COVID-19 virus, the Nazareth Hospital OR is open again, and I’m looking forward to operating this week! The hospital administration has done a terrific job to ensure the safety of staff and patients, who will be given a COVID test before surgery. While some doctors choose to perform breast augmentation and breast lift surgery in an outpatient surgicenter, I’ve chosen to do all of my cosmetic breast surgeries in the safety of a hospital o...perating room at Nazareth Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia. When I joined the staff about 20 years ago, I felt like I had found my surgical home. I work with talented, competent and sensitive colleagues, and we enjoy exchanging ideas, discussing the latest medical research, and sharing suggestions to improve the patient experience. Every nurse and assistant in the OR is cross-trained and experienced with cosmetic breast surgery, giving the team unparalleled skill and depth. My patients confirm my feelings about Nazareth Hospital. In a post-op surgery survey, they consistently rate the hospital staff 10 out of 10.

On Monday, May 18, we'll be opening the office for cosmetic breast surgery consultations. Patients will be given up to an hour for their appointment, which means we'll be seeing only one person in the office at a time. In alignment with CDC guidelines, we’ve taken additional steps to keep you safe: We’ve instituted a no-touch system for registration and paperwork. Our staff is educated about COVID-19 guidelines, including mask-wearing, no-touch temperature taking, and disinfectant practices. We’ve installed machines that disinfect airborne particles in our exam rooms and offices. We look forward to providing you the same excellent care as always. Give us a call at 1-888-SHAPE-12 if you have any questions.

During the coronavirus, women have been posting that they’re going braless at home and enjoying it! When women ask me if the NEED to wear a bra, I tell them No! But I’m answering as their plastic surgeon, not their mother. A bra will keep your breasts from sagging, but only while you are wearing it. There’s little evidence that wearing a bra delays or prevents breast droopiness or the formation of stretch marks. Although a bra doesn’t seem to have much purpose these days, it...’s had a purpose at other times: Comfort: Women with large breasts say the straps and elastic of a well-made bra can take some of the weight off their shoulders and back. Bras can also prevent uncomfortable bouncing when you exercise or play a sport. Convenience: Bras make a great place to stash your stuff when you go out. Women report that they’ve put cash, credit cards, keys, driver’s licenses, lip gloss, gum, condoms and phones in their bras. Some women remember their grandmothers stashing Kleenex in their bras, not to increase their bust size but to be ready for any emergency. Shape and lift: Manhattan dressmaker Ida Rosenthal didn’t like the 1920s boyish flapper style, for which women wore side-lacing bras to flatten their breasts. To make her feminine styles fit right, she sewed in a band with two cups to accentuate and support the breasts. When clients began to request separate bras, Rosenthal manufactured them under the brand name Maiden Form; in 1928 she sold 500,000 bras.

Thought we could all use a good laugh! If you actually want to go skydiving after you get breast implants, you can. You should just wait at least 3 months after surgery before taking the plunge.

On social media, women have been posting about going braless while social distancing, but they are putting their bras to good use as a coronavirus face masks. In The Scoop on Breasts: A Plastic Surgeon Busts the Myths, my wife, Joyce, and I uncovered some bra cup size history: The first bras had stretchable cups that were supposed to accommodate breasts of various sizes, but one size did not fit all. So in the 1930s, manufacturers introduced bras with a range of cup sizes.... While British bra makers used discreet descriptions like junior and medium, American companies were more upfront. The Formfit Company offered small, average, and full cup sizes in each band. A few years later, Warner’s introduced its Alphabet Bra with A, B, C and D cups. Before too long, these cup sizes got nicknames: egg cup, tea cup, coffee cup and challenge cup. The Spirella Corset Company, founded in 1910, had nicknames for its bra sizes, too. In the Jan. 1959 issue of their in-house magazine, a shop assistant cleverly described the company’s three brassiere sizes: The Totalitarian, designed for suppression of the masses; the Salvation Army to uplift the fallen, and the Political Agitator to make mountains out of molehills.