Plastic Surgeon Dr Polynice

Name: Alain Polynice, MD
Last name: Polynice
Gender: male
Began aesthetic medicine in: 2001
Years experience: 22
Primary Specialty: Plastic Surgeon
Website: https://www.turnermedicalarts.com/providers/alain-polynice-md/
Business: Turner Medical Arts
Address: 1250 Coast Village Rd.
Address suite: Ste. L, Second Floor
Phone: (518) 981-2627
International phone number: +15189812627
City: Santa Barbara
State: California
Zip Code: 93108
Country: US
Statement: Dr. Polynice provides personalized approach to each of his patients. He combines years of international training with meticulous attention to detail to provide care with the utmost level of excellence.
Consulting Fees: -1$
Has Sponsored Offer : No

Clinical Privileges: 
  • Albany Medical Center
Education: 
  • Medical: Pontifical Catholic University, 1989
Postdoc Training: 
  • Residencies:
  • General Surgery, Columbia University Hospital, 1995
  • General Surgery, North Shore University Hospital, 1997
  • Plastic Surgery, Mayo Clinic – Rochester, Minnesota, 2000
  • Fellowships:
  • Burn, New York Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Medical Center, 1998
  • Plastic Surgery, Traveling Fellowship throughout Australia, Asia & Europe, 2000

Alain Polynice, MD

Member of: 
  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)

GPS coordinates on map: 34.4214531,-119.6423462

Primary location: 
Location name: Santa Barbara
State: CA
Country: US
Map point: 34.4234,-119.7040024

Google plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/116997584891276238277/+Williamssurgerycenter/posts

Treatments: 
  • Abdominal Etching
  • AlloDerm
  • Areola Reduction Surgery
  • Arm Lift
  • Body Lift
  • Brazilian Butt Lift
  • Brazilian Butt Lift Revision
  • Breast Augmentation
  • Breast Fat Transfer
  • Breast Implant Removal
  • Breast Implant Revision
  • Breast Implants
  • Breast Lift
  • Breast Lift with Implants
  • Breast Reconstruction
  • Breast Reconstruction Revision
  • Breast Reduction
  • Brow Lift
  • Butt Augmentation
  • Butt Implants
  • Butt Lift
  • CoolSculpting
  • Eyelid Surgery
  • Facelift
  • Facial Fat Transfer
  • Feminizing Top Surgery
  • Gynecomastia Surgery
  • Inspira Breast Implants
  • Liposculpture
  • Liposuction
  • Liposuction Revision
  • Male Tummy Tuck
  • Masculinizing Top Surgery
  • Mini Facelift
  • Mini Tummy Tuck
  • Mommy Makeover
  • Morpheus8
  • Nipple Surgery
  • Panniculectomy
  • Rhinoplasty
  • Scar Removal
  • Sientra Breast Implants
  • Strattice
  • Subcision
  • TCA Peel
  • Teeth Whitening
  • ThermiSmooth Face
  • Thigh Lift
  • Tumescent Liposuction
  • Tummy Tuck
  • Tummy Tuck Revision

RealSelf Info

Rating: 4.8
Profile views: 5862
Answer count: 102
Review count: 24
2 star count: 1
4 star count: 1
5 star count: 9
Total star count: 11
Star rating: 3.5979752803264
Lead count last three months: 1
Anonymous votes: 0
Offer count: 0
Profile created: Jan 3, 2012
Profile modified: Jun 1, 2023
Profile photo modified: Jul 14, 2023
Profile promotion: Yes
Profile inactive: No
Premier status: Profile Plus
Tier: Free-Claimed
RealCare Promise: No
Directory link: Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
RealSelf’s PRO: Yes
Doctor Designation Start Time: Jan 29, 2022
Doctor Designation End Time: Jan 1, 2033

Locations

  • Latham, NY, US. GPS coordinates: 42.7526,-73.78040314
  • Santa Barbara, CA, US. GPS coordinates: 34.4234,-119.7040024

Latest ratings of treatments

  • Tummy Tuck (Sep 2023) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Breast Reduction (Sep 2023) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Diastasis Recti Repair (Sep 2023) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Breast Augmentation (Nov 2016) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Tummy Tuck Revision (Oct 2018) – Overall rating: 5/5 (Wait times: 5/5, Doctor’s bedside manner: 5/5, Phone or email responsiveness: 5/5, Payment process: 5/5, Time spent with patient: 5/5, After care follow-up: 5/5, Staff professionalism & courtesy: 5/5, Answered questions: 5/5)
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Jul 2019) – Overall rating: 5/5 (Wait times: 5/5, Doctor’s bedside manner: 5/5, Phone or email responsiveness: 5/5, Payment process: 5/5, Time spent with patient: 4/5, After care follow-up: 5/5, Staff professionalism & courtesy: 5/5, Answered questions: 5/5)
  • Breast Augmentation (Sep 2023) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Breast Implant Removal (Sep 2023) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Tummy Tuck (Sep 2022) – Overall rating: 4/5
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Jul 2019) – Overall rating: 5/5 (Wait times: 5/5, Doctor’s bedside manner: 5/5, Phone or email responsiveness: 5/5, Payment process: 5/5, Time spent with patient: 4/5, After care follow-up: 5/5, Staff professionalism & courtesy: 5/5, Answered questions: 5/5)
  • Tummy Tuck (Sep 2022) – Overall rating: 4/5
  • Tummy Tuck (Sep 2022) – Overall rating: 4/5
  • Tummy Tuck (Oct 2022) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Tummy Tuck (Oct 2022) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Breast Lift (Jan 2017) – Overall rating: 5/5 (Wait times: 5/5, Doctor’s bedside manner: 5/5, Phone or email responsiveness: 5/5, Payment process: 5/5, Time spent with patient: 5/5, After care follow-up: 5/5, Staff professionalism & courtesy: 5/5, Answered questions: 5/5)
  • Tummy Tuck (Aug 2016) – Overall rating: 5/5 (Wait times: 5/5, Doctor’s bedside manner: 5/5, Phone or email responsiveness: 5/5, Payment process: 5/5, Time spent with patient: 5/5, After care follow-up: 5/5, Staff professionalism & courtesy: 5/5, Answered questions: 5/5)
  • Tummy Tuck (Nov 2021) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Breast Lift with Implants (Oct 2016) – Overall rating: 5/5 (Wait times: 5/5, Doctor’s bedside manner: 5/5, Phone or email responsiveness: 5/5, Payment process: 5/5, Time spent with patient: 5/5, After care follow-up: 5/5, Staff professionalism & courtesy: 5/5, Answered questions: 5/5)
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Aug 2020) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Aug 2020) – Overall rating: 5/5
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Mar 2020) – Overall rating: 1/5
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Mar 2020) – Overall rating: 1/5
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Mar 2020) – Overall rating: 1/5
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Mar 2020) – Overall rating: 1/5
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Mar 2020) – Overall rating: 1/5
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Mar 2020) – Overall rating: 1/5
  • Brazilian Butt Lift (Mar 2020) – Overall rating: 1/5
  • Breast Augmentation (Feb 2020) – Overall rating: 5/5

Latest Prices

Tummy Tuck Prices

  • $9100 – Sep 28, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $11000 – Sep 28, 2022
  • $11000 – Sep 28, 2022
  • $11000 – Sep 28, 2022
  • $11000 – Aug 10, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $8000 – Feb 2017 – Latham, NY
  • $8000 – Jul 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $9100 – Sep 28, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $9100 – Jun 29, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $9100 – Jun 29, 2016 – Latham, NY

Breast Augmentation Prices

  • $6800 – Nov 29, 2016 – Latham
  • $6300 – Jun 1, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $6300 – Jun 1, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $6800 – Nov 29, 2016 – Latham
  • $6800 – Nov 29, 2016 – Latham
  • $6100 – Nov 18, 2015 – The Williams Center, Latham NY
  • $6100 – Nov 18, 2015 – The Williams Center, Latham NY
  • $6100 – Nov 18, 2015 – The Williams Center, Latham NY
  • $6000 – Nov 18, 2015 – Latham, NY
  • $6000 – Nov 18, 2015 – Latham, NY
  • $6000 – Nov 18, 2015 – Latham, NY

Tummy Tuck Revision Prices

  • $10800 – Oct 5, 2018 – Latham, NY
  • $10800 – Oct 5, 2018 – Latham, NY
  • $10800 – Oct 5, 2018 – Latham, NY
  • $10800 – Oct 5, 2018 – Latham, NY
  • $10800 – Oct 5, 2018 – Latham

Brazilian Butt Lift Prices

  • $9000 – Jul 10, 2019
  • $9000 – Jul 10, 2019
  • $9000 – Jul 10, 2019

Breast Lift Prices

  • $9074 – Jan 10, 2017 – Latham, NY
  • $7200 – Oct 2018 – Latham, NY
  • $9074 – Jan 10, 2017 – Latham, NY
  • $9074 – Jan 10, 2017 – Latham, NY
  • $7200 – Feb 2012 – Latham, NY

Liposuction Prices

  • $4300 – Jan 28, 2015 – Latham, NY
  • $4300 – Jan 28, 2015 – Latham, NY
  • $4300 – Jan 28, 2015 – Latham, NY
  • $4300 – Jan 28, 2015 – Latham, NY
  • $4300 – Jan 28, 2015 – Latham, NY

Breast Lift with Implants Prices

  • $10250 – Oct 5, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $10250 – Oct 5, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $10250 – Oct 5, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $10250 – Oct 5, 2016 – Latham, NY
  • $10250 – Oct 5, 2016 – Latham, NY

Mini Tummy Tuck Prices

  • $7500 – Oct 14, 2016 – Virgin Islands
  • $7500 – Oct 14, 2016 – Virgin Islands

Inspira Breast Implants Prices

  • $6100 – Nov 18, 2015 – The Williams Center, Latham NY

Doctor’s answers

Question
Answer Header & Date
Answer Snippet
Doctor said I won’t have drains because it’s an old method – does this sound right?
Drains or no drains? That is the question.
Feb 11, 2023
First, let me congratulate you on your weight loss! I looked at your photos, and I think that you are a great candidate for your mommy makeover, which includes a tummy tuck with Lipo 360 and a breast lift with augmentation. The question of whether or not to use drains, depends on the technique used, indeed, there are ways to do this operation and not use drains, but that does not guarantee that you would not have a fluid accumulation or seroma postoperatively, that could still happen. Many…
Under the muscle implants pushed chest wall out. What are my options?
Breast implants causing a chest deformity
Feb 5, 2023
The first step would be to make sure that there is nothing wrong with the actual implant and the best way to do that is to be assessed by a board certified plastic surgeon and possibly get an MRI. That would be the best way to evaluate the implant and the surrounding tissues. Based on your photos you are very thin and there appears to be a contour deformity above the implant, in the right patient this can sometimes be corrected with fat transfer to the chest to correct the volume deficit.
I lost 130 lbs, now I don’t know what procedures to get. What is the most cost effective route to ta
What to do after massive weight loss?
Feb 5, 2023
First let me congratulate you on your weight loss! The first step is to schedule a consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon who specializes in body contouring to discuss the areas that bother you the most. Looking at your photos I would recommend a procedure that would address the excess skin along the abdomen and create more shape to the back and buttocks. That can be achieved with a tummy tuck with 360 liposuction and fat transfer to the buttocks and hip dips to create that…
How safe are body contouring surgeries for removal of excess skin after weight loss?
Body Contouring After Weight Loss
Dec 2, 2022
First of all let me congratulate you on your weight loss. Losing 140 pounds is amazing! It’s the best thing that you could’ve done as far as your health is concerned, but now there’s all the excess skin to deal with. Body contouring surgery after weight loss can be one of the most rewarding procedures, because the transformations can be dramatic, but it’s very important to find a board-certified plastic surgeon who specializes in these types of procedures. It is very common to combine…
Do I have tubular/tuberous breasts or just sagging breasts?
Drooping or Sagging (ptosis)
Nov 16, 2021
Thank you for your question!
This is something that comes up quite frequently during consultation.
The term ‘tuberous breast deformity’ refers to a specific set of characteristics that are used to describe a particular breast shape. Some of these characteristics include a narrow breast, overall constricted skin envelope, a fibrous band around the areola, and herniation of breast tissue into the areola, among others. Patients that have tuberous breasts typically would benefit from a procedure…
At 5’0″ and 105 lbs, is there any liposuction to make my butt and legs smaller?
Liposuction
Oct 29, 2021
Good morning and thank you for your question.
All of us have a certain amount of adipose tissue (fat) under the skin, which sits on top of muscle tissue. In the buttocks area, liposuction could be effective at reducing the overall volume if there is enough fat under the skin to make a difference. If there is not much fat and the bulk of the buttocks area is mostly due to the underlying muscle, then liposuction would not help as much. Of course, as with anything, one has to be careful not to…
Can they cut along the same line as my cesarean section when I get my tummy tuck?
Tummy tuck incision
Oct 27, 2021
Thank you for your questions, it is actually that I get asked quite often.
Many women who are looking to improve the appearance of their abdomen and trunk with a tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) have undergone cesarian sections before.
Typically, the incision of a tummy tuck is designed in such a way that it would either include (go through) the cesarian section scar, or it would be below where the cesarian section was done. If the incision is below, the cesarian section scar would be removed…
How can I fix and applicator shaped indentation on my stomach?
My Recommendations
Sep 20, 2021
Good morning and thank you for your question.
Contour irregularities arising from non-surgical therapies is something that I come across frequently in my practice.
It is difficult to tell exactly what the three-dimensional contour of your abdomen looks like from a single picture, however, generally speaking once could help soften irregularities like such with well-done liposuction or liposculpting.
Of course, this would be something that you and your plastic surgeon would discuss at length…
After research I believe fat flap is best method to fix craters?
Gynecomastia surgery
Sep 1, 2021
Good morning.
I am sorry to hear that you are having issues after your surgery. Contour irregularities after gynecomastia surgery is something that unfortunately does happen sometimes.
It would be important to determine exactly what is causing the contour irregularities that are seen in the pictures you sent. One possible cause could be incomplete excision of the breast/extra tissue. Another cause could be excessive removal of tissue too close to the skin. Or, it could be a combination of…
Do I need a upper back lift or lipo with J-Plasma?
Upper back lift vs Liposuction with J-plasma
Sep 1, 2021
Thank you for your question, this same subject comes up quite often during consultation.
The answer lies in what each of these two procedures is able to do and how that matches with your goals.
While liposuction is a powerful tool to help remove excess fat and achieve a better contour, even with the use of J-plasma, it will not really address excess skin. In fact, having liposuction in the setting of excess skin could potentially lead to the excess skin being even more noticeable. People…
CoolSculpting dent on outer thigh. What can be done to correct this?
Coolsculpting dent on thigh
Sep 1, 2021
Good morning.
I’m sorry to hear you didn’t get the results you were looking for after coolsculpting.
Unfortunately, irregularities after coolsculpting (or liposuction) can happen, and sometimes they can be pretty noticeable. It is difficult to really examine the extent of what you are mentioning from that single picture, however, there are a couple ways to try to correct the ‘dent’.
Depending on what the rest of your thigh looks like, one way would be to perform liposuction on the adjacent…
BMI would be higher in someone with lipedema. Why is that not taken into consideration, or is it?
Lymphedema and liposuction or surgery
Aug 17, 2021
Thank you for your question!
There is a lot of information out there and things can get quite confusing.
As it pertains to BMI, this is a generic calculation that is based on your weight and height and determines your level of ‘body fatness’ as stated in the CDC website. While it does apply to most of the population, there are certain subsets of people that are not accurately portrayed by this calculation. For example, a body builder who has very little fat but is heavy due to the muscle…
I have a raised pea size scar on the inside of my foreskin can it be removed? and who do I see? (Pho
Consultation
Aug 11, 2021
Hey there.
You may want to consider seeing a urologist, which is a doctor that specializes in problems with the urinary system as well as the penis.
Thank you for reaching out!
my breast size is 32b, 5.8 tall and 137lbs. I want to have full natural look. What should be the CC
Breast Augmentation
Aug 11, 2021
That is a great question, and its something that my patients always ask.
As part of the consultation process, I include high-definition 3D imaging that shows the patient what the result will look like with all the different implant sizes and profiles. Patients find this very helpful to determine what type of implant will they use.
Feel free to come for a consultation and we can definitely discuss what is right for you.
Has one implant dropped too low and what could be done to fix this?
Changes in your implant
Aug 11, 2021
Thank you for your question!
It is not uncommon to notice changes in your breasts after having a breast augmentation, especially in the early post-operative period. However, once the shape of the breasts stabilizes after surgery (after the healing period is complete), changes in the shape of the breast can happen for a number of reasons. One of those reasons could be rupture of the implant. Getting an ultrasound of a breast with an implant is one way to check for implant rupture.
You may…

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Last updated on 11/26/2023