Updated TGA Guidance March 2024
Update from from the Therapeutic Goods Administration regarding advertising cosmetic services.
Postpartum Abdominoplasty item number is back from July 01, 2022
UPDATE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS (ASPS) regarding an MBS item number for postpartum abdominoplasty:
Benefits of preventative mastectomy
FAQs for Members on information about Breast Implant Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL)
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has provided information regarding breast implant associated-anaplastic large cell lymphoma. The TGA has been posting information about this condition since 2011 and this updated alert was been generated following an expert advisory panel in view of additional generated from research performed by a joint BIA-ALCL task force with representatives from the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, New Zealand Association of Plastic Surgeons the Australian Breast Device Registry and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Read more
What is Biofilm?
Biofilm is a film that develops around an implant which is considered to be foreign by the body. All implants develop a capsule around them which is the body’s natural immune defence. This is normal however if a biofilm is present then the breast implant can develop a condition called a capsular contracture. It is interesting to note that biofilms have been identified on many different types of implants in the body not just breast implants. Examples of these include hip and knee replacements, heart valve replacements, pacemakers and the like.
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Fat Grafting
Fat grafting is otherwise known as fat injection and is the process of removing fat with low pressure liposuction and injecting it back into the body with long needles to where it is needed.
It is used primarily to fill up depressions which cause a contour deformity eg. After trauma or cancer surgery. Read more
Buttock Augmentation
A recent aesthetic to hit our shores
As times change, so do the principles and preferences of body types. Through the ages different body shapes and proportions have been valued over others and it is expected that this will continue to evolve in the future. Read more
Chronic biofilm
Chronic biofilm infection in breast implants is associated with an increased T cell lymphocytic infiltrate – implications for breast implant associated lymphoma
BREAST RECONSTRUCTION ACELLULAR DERMAL MATRICES (ADM)
ADM refers to human or animal skin which has had all of the cells removed such that it leaves behind just a collagen scaffold. Read more
