Category: breast implants

The Physics of the Breast Implant Funnel Insertion Device

The biggest change in the silicone gel of breast implants over the last twenty years has been the improvement in form stability. By increasing the complexity of the silicone cross-linking the gel within the implant becomes more highly cohesive and stiffer than earlier generation breast implants. This helps to maintain its shape better and have Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Breast Sagging and Implant Ruptures As Long-Term Sequelae from Primary Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast implants have been placed for over fifty years and the most common aesthetic indication is for small breasts. But the concept of small breasts is relative and can vary from a completely flat chest to breasts that have developed involution and have some sagging. In either case implants can be placed for their Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Transaxillary Approach for Silicone Gel Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast implants are most commonly placed in the submuscular pocket, more technically known as the dual plane or partial submuscular pocket. There are several different incisions in which to access and create this pocket including the inframammary, areolar and transaxillary incisions. Each incisions has its advantages and disadvantages as well as surgeon advocates. With Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Lifting Effect of Larger Breast Implants on the Constricted Breast

Background: Much of a preoperative breast augmentation discussion focuses on implant size. To determine what implant volume would create the desired increase in breast size, a variety of methods have been advocated from the rice test, volumetric sizers and 3D imaging. All have their merits and to those who use each one they are staunch Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Creating Cleavage with Breast Implants in an Hispanic Female

Background: Size dominates much of the preoperative discussion in breast implant surgery and what volume of implant may achieve it. But right behind size are concerns and desires for postoperative breast shape. The shape of the breast is defined by fullness of the upper and lower poles and the position of the nipple-areolar complex on Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Modified Vertical Breast Lifts with Implants

Background: The breasts of a women are far from a static anatomic structure. Over a woman’s lifetime her breasts are exposed to a variety of deforming forces including tissue stretch from pregnancies, weight loss as well as gravity. How much damage the breasts will sustain depends on their initial size as well as the extent Read More…

Review of Aesthetic Differences in Anatomic vs Round Silicone Implants in Primary Breast Augmentation

Silicone breast implants have been available in two different shapes for well over a decade. Besides size (implant volume) and projection (height vs width), patients can also choose between shapes. (round vs anatomic) The name and concept of an anatomic breast implant is a very appealing one for patients, particularly those who seek a natural Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Very Thin Female Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast augmentation can be successfully done in any female regardless if their body size or weight. But the body frame and habits of the patient does play a role in some of the finer details of the aesthetic outcome. It is no surprise that in very thin female that they frequently have little to Read More…

Understanding the Breast Implant Animation Deformity

The placement of breast implants can be done either above or below the pectorals muscle. There are advantages and disadvantages to either implant pocket location and each patient must consider these carefully as either approach can be done in any patient. Placing the implant below the muscle, known as subpectoral placement, is more universally done. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Vertical Breast Lifts after Breast Augmentation

Background: The breasts are ideally perceived as having a nipple-areolar complex (hereafter referred to as the nipple) that is centrally positioned on the breast mound skin. Life (pregnancies, weight loss and gravity) can change what was once an ideal position of the nipple but breast enhancing surgeries can restore it. Implants enlarge the breast mounds Read More…