Category: breast augmentation | breast implants

  Breast augmentation continues to be a popular body contouring procedure with over 300,000 women having their breasts enhanced last year alone in the U.S.. While it may be hard to see any association at all between breast implants and sugar and desserts, they are some visual and tactile similarities. This association has come about Read More…

Breast augmentation is one of the most popular body contouring operations. It creates an instantaneous effect that often can cause quite a dramatic change in a woman’s chest appearance. But its effects are due to a medical device and, as such, makes it prone to a higher rate of complications than any plastic surgery operation Read More…

Background: Breast augmentation results depends heavily on the implanted device to create it. More than any other aspect of breast enhancement surgery, women spend the most time contemplating what size breasts they want. From this they attempt to figure out what volume of breast implants will create that look. While numerous methods exist to help Read More…

  Of the numerous complications that can occur in breast augmentation, capsular contracture is the most vexing of them all. The formation of excessive circumferential scar formation around the implant can be problematic in terms of the look and feel of the breast with potential hardness and shape distortion. The reason for capsular contracture  in Read More…

For over fifty years since 1962, breast implants have been used to enhance female physiques and improve self-images. While there are many factors that contribute to a successful breast augmentation result, one of the major considerations is the implant itself. Long being the conceptually simple design of a containment bag (shell) with some form of Read More…

While there are numerous complications that occur from having breast implants, most patients never think of one that has been around for decades…capsular contracture. This is the development of abnormal amounts of scarring around an implant. While normally significant scarring around a medical implant may be irrelevant or even advantageous, it is not so around Read More…

One common question that may women ask when getting breast augmentation is whether the implants will interfere with breast feeding. The answer, whether the implants are placed below or above the pectoralis muscle, is that they do not since either location puts them underneath the breast gland tissue. There is no disruption of the breast Read More…