Breast augmentation is a plastic surgical procedure that aims to reshape and enlarge breasts. Undergoing this cosmetic surgery can help balance your asymmetrical breasts, add more curves to them, and enhance your femininity.
Some options for augmentation mammoplasty are breast implants and fat transfer augmentation. Here is more information to help you learn about these two options:
1. Breast Implants
Quality breast implants must meet safety requirements before surgery. FDA-approved breast implants help reduce the risks of infections, delayed wound healing, and implant rupture.
Before choosing an implant during this cosmetic surgery, check its surface, material composition, shape, and size. Here are some options you may get during augmentation mammoplasty:
Silicone Breast Implants
Shells can be made from silicone rubber with a certain amount of gel fillers. The volume added by these implants helps reduce the risks of ripples or wrinkles forming under the breasts’ skin. The implants’ ability to minimize the risks of capsular contractures makes them ideal for breast augmentation.
A capsular contracture is scar tissue that grows after an augmentation procedure, interfering with the normal implant’s shape. The condition varies from patient to patient and is not caused by any breast implant.
Saline Breast Implants
Silicone rubber shells may be filled with a fixed amount of sterile salt water, which makes saline breast implants. These implant options can’t harm you if they rupture, as saline water naturally reabsorbs into the body. Saline breast implants require minimal incisions, which can help prevent scarring. These options are also affordable and more convenient to adjust.
Textured Breast Implants
Textured breast implants provide rough, pebbly, and thick silicone rubber shells. The textured implant surfaces help prevent rotation and malposition, which can affect breast shape and feel and prompt unexpected secondary plastic surgery. Some types of breast implant malposition can include lateral, high, and low positions.
Smooth Breast Implants
The silicone rubber shells used to make these breast implants have softer and shiny outer surfaces. The low friction coefficient of these implants can help maintain the natural feel of your breasts. Smooth implants can last long as they were designed not to ripple when inside the breasts.
Round Breast Implants
These implants have spherical shapes to make your breasts appear rounder and fuller. They are also more convenient for cosmetic surgeons to insert. Because of their uniform dimensions, these types of implants are also less likely to rotate inside the breast. The implants offer flexibility, as a plastic surgeon can insert them in any direction.
Gummy Bear Breast Implants
Gummy bear or teardrop implants are filled with thick silicone gel that provides more volume and firmness to the breasts. Teardrop implants offer longevity due to their material, which helps them maintain their shape. A textured outer shell and thick gel make these options less prone to ruptures and leakage.
Common Breast Implant Incision Techniques
Some cosmetic surgeons use transaxillary techniques to make surgical incisions, such as the armpits’ anterior axillary folds. The surgeons then insert breast implants through the created incisions and tunnels to the breasts. Another technique, such as the periareolar, involves making an incision on the nipple edge and directly inserting an implant into the breast. Other incision methods may include transumbilical, inframammary, and transabdominal incisions.
2. Fat Transfer Breast Augmentation
Cosmetic surgeons also use liposuction procedures to conduct fat transfer augmentation. They use fat removed from areas like the abdomen, hips, and thighs to enlarge breasts. Fat grafting can also be used in this type of breast augmentation. The technique involves suctioning fat cells from various body areas and transferring or injecting them into a client’s breasts. Fat transfer breast augmentation can be a more comfortable and safer procedure due to its minimally invasive nature.
Contact an Expert for Cosmetic Surgery
Breast augmentation can enhance your breasts’ shape, volume, and curves. A plastic surgeon may insert implants into your breasts or conduct fat transfer augmentation to help you achieve desired outcomes. These types of surgeries can also be combined wiht others, such as liposuction or breast lift. The procedure may take a few hours, depending on the patient’s medical history and choice of implant. Book an appointment today with an expert to answer any questions or for a consultation for the highest quality breast augmentation.
