This gal likely has high profile implants. She probably wanted to look like a porn star.Type "Breast Implants" into your search engine of choice and you'll find yourself hurled into a menagerie of porn sites, special interest group sites and plastic surgery ads. It is more dense than it was more than twelve years ago when I put up my first plastics site,
Plastic Surgery Interactive. Nevertheless, it seems the misconceptions about breast implants continue. Cosmetic breast surgery can be performed to limit risk and make lasting good results.
Still patients with
30 Year Old Bags are probably best advised to at least have them changed for newer models.
For the woman entertaining cosmetic breast implants however, it can be done with a long term goal in mind. There are a two main items to consider:
(1) How large do you want to be? If you want to be quite large, plan on having more surgery over the course of your lifetime. There is a size point at which your tissue simply cannot contain the implants. At this point you start looking more and more "fake." Interesting in this discussion is that some women want that appearance in the first place. That is OK, but consider that your choice puts you into "I'll likely need more surgery" category.
(2) Implant type/shape/style - silicone gel versus saline. High versus moderate profile versus anatomic. If you want to look like a porn star, then you generally go as large as you can and choose a high profile implant. Silicone gel versus saline is a matter of opinion. I generally still advise saline unless the patient is going quite large.
If you look at the statistics in the implant literature, you see that a 1/3rd of patients are reported to have undergone additional breast surgery over a three year period. This is substantially reduced by limiting implant size and choosing a qualified surgeon. These are your choices. In my practice the re-operation rate is less than 7% over more than ten years.
Make sure you are doing this for yourself. Men don't know the difference between real and nicely done implanted breasts anyway. Look at this
poll if you care what men tend to think about the issue. They vary.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia, M.D.
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