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Abdominoplasty

Abdominoplasty, sometimes known as a ‘tummy tuck’, is designed to help improve the shape and tone of the abdominal region. The procedure involves the removal of excess sagging fat and skin to improve the shape and tone of the underlying tissue that supports the fat and skin. This procedure can be reconstructive or cosmetic in nature.

Arm Lift

Arm lift surgery, otherwise known as brachioplasty, is a procedure that reshapes the upper arms by reducing excess skin, and in some cases fat, resulting in smoother skin and better-proportioned contours of the upper arms.

Body Contouring

Body contouring surgery is a range of aesthetic (cosmetic) procedures designed to improve the body’s appearance by modifying its size or shape. Body contouring surgery is most commonly performed to contour the waist, abdomen, thighs, buttocks, upper torso and upper arms. Surgical methods range from removal of fat and/or excess skin to surgical implants and lifts to improve skin tone and definition.

Body Lift

A body lift, otherwise known as a truncoplasty, is a surgical procedure that removes large skin folds and fat from the hips, outer upper thighs, lower abdomen, and upper buttocks. The procedure is a form of body contouring surgery and is designed to improve the lower body’s appearance by modifying its size or shape.

Breast Asymmetry Correction

Breast asymmetry correction surgery is a procedure that improves the differences between the breasts if these are noticeable. Minor differences between your breasts is normal, but if these differences are larger then the size, shape or position of one or both of the breasts can be changed to make the breasts more equal.

Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation, also known as augmentation mammoplasty, can be a cosmetic procedure or a reconstructive procedure in the case of breast reconstruction surgery. The procedure involves implants being inserted beneath the breasts to enlarge them.

Breast Implants with Lift

Breast augmentation combined with breast lift surgery, also known as augmentation-mastopexy, is a procedure that raises, enlarges and firms the breasts. The procedure involves implants being inserted beneath the breasts to enlarge them.

Breast Lift

Breast lift surgery, also known as mastopexy, is a procedure that raises and firms the breasts. Excess skin is removed to tighten the surrounding tissue and to reshape and support the new breast contour.

Breast Reconstruction

Breast reconstruction is an increasingly common surgical procedure for women who have had a mastectomy. The procedure can create a breast that resembles a natural breast in appearance and form.

Breast Reduction

Breast reduction, also known as reduction mammoplasty, is a surgical procedure that reduces the size of overly large breasts.

Brow Lift

A brow lift, also known as a forehead lift, is a surgical procedure that corrects a sagging or deeply furrowed brow.

Burns and Scarring

Scar revision refers to a range of procedures that improves the comfort, function and appearance of a scar by making it less noticeable or easier to conceal.

Buttocks Lift

Buttock lift surgery is a procedure that reshapes the buttocks by reducing excess skin, and depending on the patient’s individual needs either reducing or increasing the amount of fat in the buttock, resulting in smoother skin and a firmer, rounder, better-proportioned contours of the buttocks. In some patients a better-shaped buttock contour can be achieved from fat injection alone (Brazilian Butt Lift, or BBL).

Chin Surgery

Chin Surgery, also known as mentoplasty, is designed to reshape the chin. It is performed in view of either enhancing the chin with an implant, or reducing its size with surgery.

Cleft Lip & Palate

A cleft is a birth defect where the two halves of the palate and/or the lip don’t fuse properly, leaving an open space or ‘cleft’. A cleft in the roof of the mouth, or palate, is known as a cleft palate whereas a cleft between the two halves of the lip is known as a cleft lip. Surgery can repair most clefts so that the child’s appearance and speech develop normally.

Ear Surgery

Ear surgery, also known as otoplasty or pinnaplasty, is a procedure that changes the angle and shape of protruding or uneven ears.

Eyelid Reduction Surgery

Eyelid reduction surgery, also known as a blepharoplasty, is a procedure that removes excess fatty tissue and/or loose skin surrounding the eyes to give the area a more rejuvenated appearance.

Facelift Surgery

A facelift, also known as meloplasty or rhytidectomy, is a surgical procedure that tightens and removes sagging skin on the face and neck.

Facial Implants

Facial implants are a form of cosmetic surgery designed to improve and enhance facial contours. Implants are inserted in areas of the face to provide a more harmonious balance to facial features and its overall appearance.

Fat Injection

Fat injection, also known as fat transfer or fat grafting, is a procedure that improves the body’s contours and proportion by removing fat from one or more areas and injecting the fat into another area to add volume and reshape specific areas of the body. Common areas treated with fat injection are the face

Gynaecomastia (Male Breast Reduction)

Surgery for gynaecomastia refers to reconstructive procedure(s) that correct excessive enlargement of the male breast.

Hair Replacement Surgery

Hair replacement surgery incorporates a range of transplant techniques to restore hair fullness.

Hand Surgery

Hand surgery encapsulates a range of treatments designed to restore the function and appearance of the hand. In recent years, Specialist Plastic Surgeons have been at the forefront of pioneering dramatic advances in treating patients with hand injuries, degenerative disorders, and birth defects of the hand.

Labiaplasty

Labiaplasty refers to any procedure to modify the labia. The labia are the folds of skin or ‘lips’ at the entrance to the vagina. In practice the term labiaplasty usually refers to reduction or reshaping of the labia minora (the inner lips) however many women also request changes to their labia majora (outer lips), clitoral hood and/or mons pubis (the pubic mound is the triangular area of skin and fat overlying the pubic bone which is covered by pubic hair).

Liposuction

Liposuction, also known as lipectomy or lipoplasty, is a procedure that improves the body’s contours and proportion by removing excess fat deposits to slim and reshape specific areas of the body. Common areas targeted include thighs, buttocks, abdomen, arms, neck and under the chin.

Nipple Enhancement for Inverted Nipples

Correction of inverted nipples is a procedure that aims to improve the appearance of the breasts by increasing the projection of one or both of the nipples to make them more symmetrical and normal in appearance.

Nose Surgery

Nose surgery, also known as rhinoplasty, is designed to reshape or repair the nose by improving the appearance and/or function of the nose.

Scar Revision

Scar revision refers to a range of procedures that improves the comfort, function and appearance of a scar by making it less noticeable or easier to conceal.

Skin Cancer

Skin cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal skin cells. It is the most common of all cancers. Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world, more than two-thirds of the Australian population will develop a skin cancer of some kind during their lives.

Thigh Lift

Thigh lift surgery is a procedure that reshapes the thighs by reducing excess skin, and in some cases fat, resulting in smoother skin and better-proportioned contours of the thighs and lower body.

Tissue Expansion

Tissue expansion is a procedure that enables the body to “grow” extra skin for use in reconstructing almost any part of the body. Tissue expansion is most commonly used for breast reconstruction following breast removal, but it is also used to repair skin damaged by birth defects, accidents or surgery, and in certain cosmetic procedures.