Calf Implants
Your efforts at achieving a beautiful, well-proportioned body have been rewarded: Your confident posture bespeaks the positive attitude you embrace, your complexion reveals an inner glow from a healthy eating program, and your well-defined musculature attests to a comprehensive exercise regimen. That is, as long as you don’t reveal your calves. A seemingly insignificant feature but, for some, who have worked long and hard at the gym to acquire the perfect physique, there is no solution to this dilemma. Until 1979, when a procedure known as calf implantation was introduced.
According to Dr. Lorenc, "Calf contour correction with the use of implants has become a well-accepted procedure today. It allows for improvement not only in the volume of the gastrocnemius muscle, the main calf muscle, but also in its shape and positioning." Dr. Lorenc, who has performed this type of procedure since the opening of his aesthetic plastic surgery practice in 1987, acknowledges that calf implant surgery originated as a technique in treating patients who had experienced poliomyelitis, club foot or traumatic defects. But its application nowadays frequently arises out of aesthetic consideration, and is equally appropriate for men and women.
Prior to the calf implant procedure, Dr. Lorenc will measure your calves and discuss the variety of options in implant size, shape and positioning. Calf implants are made of soft, solid silicone and are designed to duplicate the shape of the two sides of the main calf muscle. After conferring with Dr. Lorenc, you’ll decide which shape, size and location is most pleasing to you and fulfills your physical ideal.
The procedure begins with Dr. Lorenc making a small incision in the back of each knee, in the natural crease. With the use of specially designed surgical instruments, Dr. Lorenc creates either one, or two distinct, pockets between the fascia and muscle of each calf. The soft implants are then inserted and their positioning carefully checked, in order to achieve a natural appearance. The final step is the closing of the incisions with absorbable sutures.
Customarily Dr. Lorenc performs this procedure while you are under twilight sleep anesthesia. After the calf implant surgery is completed, a compression sleeve, or garment, will be placed around each calf. Dr. Lorenc will recommend you continue wearing this garment for several days. He will suggest you wait for at least four to six weeks following the procedure before resuming moderate or strenuous exercise. Slight swelling may be present for up to three months, but, afterwards, you’ll be rewarded!