Hymenoplasty (Revirginisation procedure)

Hymenoplasty is the term to refer a vagina plastic surgery that aims to repair broken hymen inside a woman’s vagina. Many patient do this surgery as a form of virginity repair and most of them do it some days before wedding. The point of hymenoplasty is to pierce together the tear of the hymen. But, before hymen reconstruction is performed, surgeons have to approximate if the hymenal remnants inside the vagina are sufficient to be repaired. If not, surgeons may consider using sompe part of vaginal flap. It then creates a vascular band across the introitus. Of course, patient will be put under anesthetic just like normal surgery. It is short because it only takes about one or two hours.

Hymenoplasty is no doubt a virginity repair surgery. Many cultural, religious, or social norms are against this surgery because they believe hymen is not a proof of virginity. Therefore, hymenoplasty is just mere to make the patient looks virginal, not bring back her virginity like in the first place. But, there are also other social or family values that insist of having the bride’s vagina bleeding after the first penetration in the first night after wedding. Whatever reasons of the patient to undergo a hymenoplasty, hymenoplasty is a medically safe surgery as long as each procedures are done carefully.

All women can be patients of hymenoplasty. Whether their hymens were torn due to premarital sexual intercourse or just unintentionally torn because of some accidents, hymenoplasty can be performed. However, there is only one condition that disallow women to do hymenoplasty. That is if she suffered from some venereal disease.

Several reasons of a woman performing hymenoplasty, are:

• As a woman ages, the vagina muscles get loose and elongated. Some women do not want to be in this condition. Therefore, some of them prefer having hymenoplasty to deal with this aging problem.
• Hymen is actually one reason that makes your sexual activity with your partner becomes more satisfying. Maybe you and your partner want to enjoy a coitus just like when you were a virgin? Here, hymenoplasty gives a solution.
• Just like previously said, some women had their hymens torn not because of sexual penetration. Instead, they had it because of sexual abuse, rape, or other accidents. Hymenoplasty can heal the wound of these accidents so that everything would be back as if they weren’t happened.
• Re-marriage is also another cause of hymenoplasty. Some cultures insist a widow to perform hymenoplasty before she remarriages to another man, because they believe that virginity only belongs to the husband.

The advantages of hymenoplasty? Of course, the patient’s hymen will be tighten up just like a virgin. But what is it for? Hymen can give a more pleasure sensation to a woman during sexual intercourse. She will feel fuller inside her vagina and she has a bigger probability to have orgasm. Moreover, hymenoplasty is performed in relatively short time (and the recovery time is also short).

After undergoing this virginity repair surgery, a woman must take care of herself. This includes a slight change in her lifestyle. She has to make sure that no outer accident happened and tore her hymen, except after sexual intercourse. She musts keep her vagina clean. Remember, although the recovery time of hymenoplasty is relatively short, always wait for some reasonable time before doing sexual activity. It is to make sure that the wound after surgery is completely healed. Avoid hardworking or lifting heavy things for about a week after hymenoplasty because hymen is prone to be torn again because of the pressure within the vagina.

Breast Implant Surgical Procedures

Breast implantation, or medically termed as mammoplasty, is a procedure to implant a breast implant device within the breast tissue. There are three purposes of this breast surgery: (1) reconstruction, if the breast tissues were damaged by trauma, disease, or other accidents; (2) revision, to fix up the result of other breast surgeries performed previously; (3) cosmetic purposes, to give the breasts an aesthetically better look.

Five Kinds of Incisions

Breast implant emplacement is performed with five (5) types of surgical incisions:

There are five kinds of surgical incisions in this breast surgery:

• Inframammary. This is the incision created around the infra-mammary fold (IMF). This incision will give maximum access to most areas within the breast tissues. Because of that, this incision is usually made if the surgeons want to do an emplacement of the silicone-gel breast implants. However, this incision leaves a thicker, more visible scars onto the breast skin.
• Periareolar. This is the incision created in a border line of the areola. This incision will give a better depth-look into the breast tissue right if inframammary incisions need to be adjusted in certain ways. This incision is also necessary to be created if the surgery includes a breast lift (mastopexy). Unlike the inframammary incision, periareolar incision does not enable surgeons to emplace silicone gel implants due to the small size of the incision. Lucky that this incision is less visible than the inframammary incision because it is located around the areola’s border.
• Transaxillary. This is the incision created in the armpit (axilla). This incision will create a dissection tunnels from where surgeons can emplace the implants. The emplacement can be done both bluntly or with the help of video microcamera, and therefore produces less or even no scars on the breast skin. However, this incision is less acurate in positioning the implant device. That’s why, transaxillary incision in mammoplasty is mostly revised with an inframammary or periareolar incision.
• Transumbilical. This is the incision created at the navel. This incision is actually less common because it creates a dissection tunnels upwards from the bust. It is also so much trickier to position the breast implant device more accurately, although it creates less or even no scars. Transumbilical incision is not suitable to placing silicone gel implants within the breast tissue because of its inaccuracy nature. Moreover, silicone gel implants cannot be inserted through an incision this small because they are more incompressible.
• Transabdominal. This is mostly similar to transumbilical incision. This incision creates tunnels from the abdominal incision to the implant tissue. Mostly, an abdominoplasty is undergone simultaneously with this incision.

Breast Implant Emplacement

By definition, breast implant emplacement is a cross-sectional plan of two different implantantions: subglandular breast prosthesis implantation and submuscular breast prosthesis implantations. There are four different procedures can be apply to perform a breast implant emplacement to the implant pocket within the breast tissue.

• Subglandular. The emplacement is done onto the retromammary area, which is located between the gland and the pectoralis muscle. This emplacement method gives the most good-looking results. However, subglandular position often shows up some ripples and wrinkles, especially in patients with thin pectoral tissue size. This emplacement procedure also gives higher rate of capsular contracture incidence.
• Subfascial. The emplacement is done under the fascia of the pectoralis muscle. Actually, subfascial emplacement is a variation from subglandular position. This emplacement method is still under debate, because some surgeons said that this emplacement method gives a more vast coverage of implantation and better position sustainability, while other surgeons were against this opinion.
• Subpectoral. This emplacement is done under the pectoralis muscle. Because this emplacement can only be done after the surgeon wears off the attachments from the inferior muscle, the upper part of the implant is put under the pectoralis muscle while the lower part is in the subglandular area. Although in some patients the possibility of the implants moving from its initial position is a bit higher, subpectoral emplacement cover the maximum area of the implant and allows the lower part of the implant to be expanded.
• Submuscular. This emplacement is done under the pectoralis muscle, similar to subpectoral emplacement. But, submuscular emplacement does not require the surgeons to wear off the attachments of the inferior muscle. Coverage of this emplacement method can be reached maximally by wearing off the lateral muscle from the chest (the serratus muscle, the pectoralis minor muscle, or the two). In most breast surgery, submuscular emplacement method gives the best result to the breast implants.

Post-surgical recovery

Scars from breast augmentation surgery usually appear 6 weeks after the surgery. It then fades in several months. However, patients can go back to their normal daily life just in a week after surgery as long as they do not do hard physical activities. However, longer recovery time can happen for patients of submuscular placement breast augmentation. These patients can only be back to their daily activities after more than 6 weeks. This is because the incisions of the chest muscles takes longer period to be healed. During this recovery time, it is recommended for the patient to do some light exercises on their arms. These arm exercises are good to let go the pain within the breast tissue. Sometimes, analgesic medication catheters are used to alleviate the pain. Some other advanced techniques of breast implantation enables the patient to recover a lot faster. About 95 percent of women undergoing these techniques can resume their normal lifestyle just in 24 hours with barely any helps of bandages, catheters, and other medical devices.

10 Worst Plastic Surgery Disasters

While plastic surgery is supposed to fix someone’s appearance, these are ten worst plastic surgery ever happened in history.

Hang Mioku

Hang Mioku is an example of plastic surgery gone wrong. She is a 48-year-old woman living in South Korea. She began undergoing her first plastic surgery when she was 28 years old and became so addicted to it eversince. Many plastic surgeries have been done, resulting on her face is no longer recognizable by her surroundings. Her face became larger and deformed, and surgeons did not want to perform any more plastic surgeries on her. Moreover, surgeons said that her addiction to plastic surgery is because of some kind of psychological disorder. Knowing that not any surgeons wanted to re-fix her face, she ended up “performing it by herself” by injecting cooking oil into her face. It didn’t take long for her becoming a nation-wide news-maker as she was featured on television. Fortunately, many people took pity on her and sent in some money and donations for her undergoin some more plastic surgeries to fix her outlook. As surgeons want to handle this job, several sessions of plastic surgery are done, removing 60 grams of unknown substance from her face and 200 grams from her neck. Her face became significantly back to normal size, but scars were still left and hard to be repaired.

Jocelyn Wildenstein

She might have been recorded as a woman who spent the highest amount of money to have cosmetic plastic surgery—and making it a plastic surgery disaster. She spent approximately US$ 4 million over several years. Before making her nickname, “The Bride of Wildenstein”, Jocelyn was actually a pretty woman, a nice-looking mom of two children, and a wife of a rich art dealer. But, things gone wrong after she caught her husband cheated on her by having an affair with a Russian model. Instead of divorcing her husband, she came up with an idea to get her husband back to her by making over her appearance—by doing plastic surgery. However, not only that the plastic surgery gone wrong, she was also left by her husband.

Michael Jackson

I think we all have known what plastic surgery disaster that Michael Jackson had. More than ten times nose surgeries made him so much different, at least compared to how he looked in the 70s. Rumor said that he had also some kind of psychological disorder due to his addiction to celebrity plastic surgery.

Pete Burns

Dead or Alive, the British band that is famous for their song “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)”, had its frontman enter the world of celebrity plastic surgery. Pete Burns, then a former member of the band, had many polyacrylamide injections to his lips, followed by some other plastic surgery procedures like cheek implant, nose reshaping, and tattoos. He admitted that in just eighteen month of plastic reconstructive surgery (that gone wrong), he wiped out his lifetime savings.

Dennis Avner

Different from others who undergo a plastic surgery to fix their appearance, Dennis Avner has undergone an extensive plastic surgery to make he looks like his animal: a tiger. Transdermal implants (to wear whiskers), tattoos, subdermal impants (to reshape his face), and teeth reshaping made him look so much similar to tiger. There he got his nickname, “The Catman”.

Eric Sprague

This one is also ridiculous. Eric Sprague was known as the Lizardman after he underwent a plastic surgery that splits his tongue just like a reptile. Born in 1972, Eric has made himself beyond everyone’s imagination by impersonating reptile so closely via plastic surgeries. He had done 700 hours of tattooing, 5 Teflon horns implantation under his eyebrows, a teeth reshaping to make his teeth looks like sharp fangs, a split tongue, and a stretch on his earlobes.

Donatella Versace

Dontalla Versace is not only known as the sister of Gianni Versace—the owner of Versace, one of the biggest fashion brands in the world—but also by her significant change after her undergoin a plastic surgery that gone wrong. Nose reshaping, which was supposed to make her nose looks smaller, eventually enlarged her nose after several years. It turned to be wide, flat, and crooked. Besides her nose, her large lips—that was made after a celebrity plastic surgery—showed that she might have been using collagen. She might also have undergone facelift, seen from her firm skin. Perhaps, she might also have had Botox to decrease her wrinkles. Breast implants? Might be; it could be seen from her weight loss.

Jackie Stallone

Jackie Stallone was famous because of several reasons. First, she was the mother of actor Silvester Stallone. Second, she claimed that she can predict the future by having a discussion with dogs and open up a hotline that gave advices for the callers. Third, she had several celebrity plastic surgery on almost every part of her face—face lift, eye brow lift, cheek implant, nose surgery, and lip surgery.

Amanda Lepore

Countless surgeries had not only make Amanda Lepore, once known as Armand Lepore, have different appearance, but also put her on the top list of world’s most famous transexuals. Her first plastic surgery was when she was 15 years old, and in the last year of her high school, she had her sex reassignment surgery to change her from male into female.

Michaela Romanini

She is a famous Italian socialite. Just as many other cases of plastic surgery that gone wrong, she was abused with lip collagen when she was 40 years old before undergoing several more plastic surgeries that end up as just plastic surgery disasters.

Celebrity Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong

It is widely known that in order to always appear young and nice, actors and actresses often do some celebrity plastic surgeries onto certain parts of their bodies. The surgery is not a hard task for plastic surgeons, but still in some pretty bad luck, the celebrities may have experienced bad result from the surgeries they had. Celebrities listed below is maybe only ten from so many others who had their plastic surgery gone wrong.

Tara Reid

Tara Reid is probably known for her acting in American Pie as a high-schooler named Vicky. But, after having a liposuction and breast implantation in 2004, she may not look as a young sweetheart as she was used to be. The procedure went wrong, as her breast leaves scars and her belly looks ripply and bulgy—just like what she said in an interview to The View. It is not what she really expected at the first place. Fortunately, she did a reconstructive plastic surgery in 2006 and everything came back on track. Public knew that it went well after in 2009 she posed for Playboy, showing off her reconstructive surgery result.

Donatella Versace

It is not the first plastic surgery that Donatella—best known as the vice president of high quality fashion trademark Versace—had since the 1990s; it’s the umpteenth. But she never feels good with the result of every surgery she had. She once did a plastic surgery procedure to her nose as well as her lips, but this swollen spot always appears every time she had a surgery. No real photographs or proofs have ever been published to media, but it is obvious that she has never been satisfied by the surgeries.

Jocelyn Wildenstein

Plastic surgery is, of course, costy. And Jocelyn Wildenstein—now an active socialite living in New York—knows it very well. In 1997, or right before she ended her 20-year marriage, she had her first plastic surgery. Media reports that she spent approximately $4 million for the surgery specialized to facial plastic surgery, including cheeks implants and facelifts. Not only then she was well-known as the “Bride of Wildenstein” for the result of the surgery she had, but also a “cat woman” mockery thrown at her. It is because, now that she has tauter face shape, she appears more like a cat.

Kelly Bensimon

Media attacked Kelly Bensimon, or the true housewives of New York, in 2008 because of her misshapen breasts, the result of some celebrity plastic surgery she had. Harper’s Bazaar knows her mostly as a former model and an “ambassador for wool”—which is more to be a rumour rather than a fact—but now public and law enforcer knows her more as a woman with a screwed-up things of copyright infringement and domestic violence. And she also had no chance to do any reconstructive surgeries suggested for her better appearance.

Jennifer Grey

This is the proof of how the appearance of an actress could make a big impact to her career. Jennifer Grey was used to be the darling of romance film makers, but her different outlook—after doing some plastic surgeries including a rhinoplasty, whose results are actually not pretty bad—just eventually casted her out of the big screen and relocate her to television flicks.

La Toya Jackson

Of course we know that she is the member of the Jackson family, and we also know how screwed up his relationship with Michael Jackson was, but a thing that rumor has: that plastic surgery is perhaps something inherited from the family. La Toya may have undergone some plastic surgeries to her chin, cheek, and pointy nose—just like any other members of the family have. And like the family itself, we like to call it the real celebrity plastic surgery (that gone wrong)

Tori Spelling

Beside facial plastic surgery, breast deformation is another kind of plastic surgery that many celebrities—especially woman—have done at least once. Not to mention Tori Spelling, the star of Beverly Hills, 90210. It becomes news when media attacked her for her misshapen breast—including an obvious chest depression—but she refused to admit. She sued her doctor because the plastic surgery gone wrong, actually, and denied any rumors saying that she underwent a breast augmentation. But, in 2008, finally she admitted two things to Entertainment Weekly: (1) that she did some prosedures to “had her boobs done” in her 20-or-so; (2) that she did what every woman in Hollywood did.

Lara Flynn Boyle

No one has a clear information what the 39-year-old star of the long-running The Practice, Lara Flynn Boyle, has done to her face, but some photographs from the paparazzi make a speculation that Lara has udergone some celebrity plastic surgery onto her cheek. She smiles differently since. A worse speculation said that she did an upper lip implant, too, but out of all the facts, she apparently looks different in 2008’s Law & Order.

Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson

If you are to make such a top celebrity plastic surgery mishaps, Scott Thompson is absolutely the one that you can’t miss. Anthony Youn, MD, a plastic surgery expert as well as a blogger, said that this comedia may have done a series of plastic surgery (that gone wrong), including eyebrow life, Botox injections, lip plumping, and laser peels. The instant disappearance of freckles on his face and his sudden muscular posture (probably as effect of steroids use) is an obvious proof.

Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke has never been appeared so differently before. The star of The Wrestler as well as a retired boxer, Mickey Rourke makes public confused with his awkwardly reshapen appearance after some plastic surgeries gone wrong, including a facelift (obviously seen from the scars next to his ears), an eye lift, and some hair transplantation—which experts said has the “ability” to continously moving forward along his hairline.