Operation Bikini or Combined Breast and Abdominal Plasty

A narrator explains in graphic detail a breast implantation and correction of disfigurement of a female’s torso. This film was probably used in physician training.

Film details surgical decisions and techniques with various surgical instruments. The patient is a woman. No female surgeons are shown. A female nurse assists.

Technique of electro-dissection shown in detail. Various drawings of the torso illustrate for the physicians what they are accomplishing and where sutures are to be made.

Patient is shown three weeks after the procedures. A point is made that the surgical tapes holding the tissue together is removed painlessly.

Physician/surgeon shows two other patients one year and more out from their procedures to demonstrate minimal scarring.

Film acknowledges: Surgical Services, Medical Products Division, 3M Company; Meyer-Schulte Corporation; Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach, California.