Plastic Surgery and Real Housewives of the O.C.

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Plastic surgery has not entirely disappeared from television, viewers from the greater Los Angeles area are saying.

One world traveler blogged that people she met in Southeast Asia were not real sure where Southern California was until she explained Orange County is there.

“And then everybody replies, ‘Oh, The O.C! Do people really have as much plastic surgery as the Real Housewives?’”

(Read more about that blog and the O.C.’s plastic surgery connection.)

If you follow The Real Housewives of Orange County, you already know the season opener contained something new: a character, 30-year-old Gretchen Rossi, who does not have breast implants. (Quips another character, Jeana Keough: “There are no real breasts in Orange County.”)

Could be. But we do know the upscale, reality T.V. housewives have had breast augmentation, along with:

• Breast lifts
• Botox
• Eyebrow lifts
• Facial fillers
• Rhinoplasty

One of the characters, Tamary Barney, was pushing 40 and decided she no longer needed the large, D-cup implants she got at age 20. So, she replaced her implants with smaller C-size implants, to flatter her small frame and reduce pain in her neck and back caused by the large bust line.

Redoing a breast procedure is part of breast revision surgery.

It only happens in rare cases, but even in the best hands, things that can go wrong after any breast augmentation, include among others:

• Rupture

After many years, implants can break and leak

• Capsular contracture

When too much scar tissue forms around the implant

• Bottoming out

The implant falls out of its pocket, making the bottom of the breast too big

• Change of heart

Many surgeons say a common reason for breast revision is just after healing when the patient decides on a larger size

Knowing exactly what to do in rare cases is another reason to contact a board certified plastic surgeon. What is that, you ask?  (Read our post about what it takes to become a board certified plastic surgeon.)

admin @ January 3, 2009