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Breast augmentation is a surgical procedure in which breast implants are placed to fulfill your desire for fuller breasts (breast enlargement) or to restore breast volume lost after weight reduction or pregnancy (breast enhancement). |
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| Benefits: |
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- Increase fullness and projection of your breasts
- Improve your figure proportions
- Enhance your self-image and self-confidence
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| Candidacy |
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- You are concerned that your breasts are quite small, or disproportionately small to your body build.
- You are dissatisfied with your breasts losing shape and volume after pregnancy, weight loss, or with aging.
- Your breasts are asymmetric in size or shape
- One or both breasts failed to develop normally
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| You are not a good candidate if |
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| You have significantly drooping breasts. In this case Breast Augmentation would have to be combined with the breast uplift procedure. |
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| Important decisions to be made at your consultation |
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- What size do I want to be/what is suitable for me
- What incision would be best suited for me.
- As per individual assessment the implant is placed above or below the chest muscle (pectoralis major).
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| The implants: |
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| They are a textured surfaced silicon shell with cohesive silicon gel inside. |
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| Procedure: |
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- Anesthesia: It is performed under general anesthesia.
- Duration of the procedure: It takes about 2 hours for the procedure.
- Choice of Incision:
1. Infra-mammary incision- under the breast, in the breast fold.
2. Peri areolar - around the nipple-areola complex, at the junction of the dark and light skin.
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| Recovery : |
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- Can resume normal routine in 2- 3 weeks.
- Strenouous activity and exercise can be resumed in 3-4 weeks.
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Duration of Results: |
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- The results of your breast augmentation surgery will be long-lasting.
- Breast implants are not guaranteed to last a lifetime and future surgery may be required to replace one or both implants.
- Pregnancy, weight loss and menopause may influence the appearance of augmented breasts over the course of your lifetime.
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| Risks and complications : |
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- Unfavorable scarring
- Bleeding (hematoma)
- Infection
- Poor healing of incisions
- Changes in nipple or breast sensation, may be temporary or permanent
- Capsular contracture, which is the formation of firm scar tissue around the implant
- Implant leakage or rupture
- Wrinkling of the skin over the implant
- Anesthesia risks
- Fluid accumulation
- Blood clots
- Pain, which may persist
- Possibility of revisional surgery
Although there potentially may be complications with breast implants, they do not impair breast health. |
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| What’s New? |
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| Breast augmentation with Autologous (one’s own) FAT admixed with stem cells. |
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| Procedures commonly done concomitantly with Breast augmentation are: |
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| Liposuction: Arms, Hips, Flanks ,Abdominal |
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