Dr. Phillip Chang is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive cosmetic procedures of the Face, Breast, and Body. He has created innovations in procedures like the Mini-Facelift, the Mini Scar Breast Augmentation, and the Mommy Makeover procedures which emphasize natural results and less recovery times. Dr. Chang has offices in Loudoun, and Fairfax.

Breast Augmentation in Fairfax Va

Breast augmentation and breast enlargement procedures are one of the most common cosmetic surgery and plastic surgeon procedures performed in America today because women like having a choice of minimal incision procedures. The most common procedures are the Transaxillary Augmentation Procedure, which involves a small incision under the armpit, the Periariolar Incision and the Inframammary Incision. Breast implants are placed under the muscle, which means a lower rate of complications, more natural appearance, and easier interpretations of mammograms.

Breast enlargement and breast augmentation is most appealing to three types of women: 1) self conscious women with smaller breasts, 2) women who have experienced a decrease or loss in breast volume after having children, and 3) women with sagging breasts as a result of age or child-bearing. Breast enlargement provides a women with a boosted sense of self-esteem and self-image.

Breast augmentation is an outpatient procedure performed under general anesthesia, with numbing medicine placed into the breast to make the postoperative recovery period more bearable. Most women are back to work in a week, and bruising and swelling will take 2-4 weeks to improve.

Breast Lift - Mastopexy

With age, a woman's breasts gradually decrease in shape, size and firmness as a result of gravity, pregnancy, breast feeding and weight changes. The breasts will sag and feel old. A breast lift can help reshape, rejuvenate, and lift the breasts to their normal location of youth. Performed as an outpatient procedure at an outpatient surgery center, patients with a minor amount of sag and size decrease may only need an implant augmentation procedure. The augmentation procedure restores the fullness of youth, but minimizes the scars involved with typical breast lift procedures.

Breast Augmentation News From Plastic Surgeons News

Since 1997 Enough Breast Implants Have Been Created to Fill an Olympic-sized Swimming Pool

San Francisco-based plastic surgeon Dr. Donald Brown released “Swimming in Breast Implants,” a new infographic containing the most current facts and statistics on breast augmentation in the United States, this week. The graphic’s information is based on research made available by the National Institute of Health (NIH), American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), RealSelf.com, and the United States [...]

Breast Reduction Can Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer and Other Health Risks

Women with overly large breasts, or macromastia, have an increased risk of breast cancer, says Dr. Grant Stevens, a renowned board-certified plastic surgeon and breast reduction surgeon at Marina Plastic Surgery Associates. The reason is not clear, he says, but it may be linked to obesity, where breast cancer rates are statistically higher, or a [...]

After mastectomy, many women do not opt for breast reconstruction

Despite the benefits, only a small minority of women, regardless of age, are opting for immediate reconstructive breast surgery after undergoing mastectomy for treatment of breast cancer, according to data presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 6-10, 2011. Research has shown that immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy improves psychological [...]

New Line of Silicone Breast Implants Launched by Allergan in Canada

On the five-year anniversary of the approval of silicone gel-filled breast implants in Canada, Allergan Inc. today introduced INSPIRA® — a line of next generation round gel-filled breast implants that provides Canadian surgeons with even greater choice.  The INSPIRA® range was developed to address surgeons’ need for additional innovative breast implant products that offer a [...]

Winchester Local News

Handley Regional Library Celebrates 100 Years with Book

  Help the Handley Regional Library celebrate a century of service. To mark the upcoming 100th anniversary of Handley Regional Library in 2013, the library will publish a beautiful 250-page, full-color, hard-back book. All profits from book sales will be used for special centennial projects and for library operations. Slated for publication in November 2012, [...]

Rates for Autopark to Increase February 1st

As of February 1, 2012, the Winchester Parking Authority will implement new parking rates at the four downtown autoparks. The hourly rate will stay the same at $0.50; however, the daily maximum for hourly parkers will increase from $4.00 to $10.00. For example, to reach the $10 daily maximum rate, a vehicle would need to [...]

City Begins Discussions About Minor League Baseball

The Winchester Economic Development Authority (EDA) has completed a feasibility study concerning recruiting a minor league baseball team and constructing a new stadium in the City of Winchester.  The EDA has requested that Council approve a conveyance of park land (approx. 12 acres in the northeast corner of Jim Barnett Park near I-81 and Cork [...]

Frederick County Accepting Bids for Sale of Old Gainesboro Elementary School

The Frederick County Board of Supervisors, pursuant to Section 15.2-1800, Code of Virginia, is seeking bids for the sale of the county property and buildings comprising the former Gainesboro Elementary School which is comprised of approximately 5.5 acres. The property will be sold as is, together with all appurtenances and rights of way belonging thereto. [...]