I often tell my patients that we are God’s walking art. And just as Dr. Bunkis and I can look at the same painting and have completely different reactions, there is no single body shape that everyone considers ideal.
Some people love long, slender legs. Others prefer calves that look fuller, shapelier or more muscular. In plastic surgery, what matters is not creating the body your surgeon finds most attractive. Our job is to understand your vision and your expectations and determine whether we can safely help you achieve them.
For patients bothered by disproportionately thin or poorly developed calves, one option is calf augmentation with implants. Orange County Plastic Surgery is one of the relatively few practices in the Newport Beach area performing body implant procedures including calf, buttock and pectoral augmentation.
Calf implants have been used for decades. They can provide cosmetic enhancement but historically have also been used to improve contour deficiencies resulting from congenital conditions, disease or injury – for example, we have put calf implants into patients unilaterally to correct asymmetries caused by polio of being born with a club foot on one side.
Planning begins with the patient standing so that the natural contours of the leg can be carefully marked. Depending upon the desired result, pockets can be designed over the medial and lateral heads of the gastrocnemius muscle. The medial implant is generally larger and extends farther down the calf, reflecting normal calf anatomy.
