Breast augmentation is one of the most requested plastic surgeries by women seeking to augment or restore the shape of their breasts.
Breast augmentation techniques
Placement of implants or breast prostheses: consists of breast augmentation by implanting a prosthesis, usually silicone, in the submuscular, subglandular or subfascial plane.
Advantages of Breast Prosthesis:
- It is the oldest and most widely used breast implant technique.
- The result is usually achieved with a single intervention.
- You can get the size that the patient wants.
- More predictable results.
Disadvantages of Breast Prosthesis:
- A foreign material is placed that has complications such as: rupture, deterioration, encapsulation, infection, scarring, displacement, sensitive alterations, breast cancer.
- It is very likely that she will need another intervention during her lifetime.
Autologous fat grafting (Lipofilling): consists of filling the breast with the patient’s own fat.
Advantages of autologous fat grafting:
- Natural method, the first breast augmentation technique that does not use foreign bodies and avoids the problems and complications that may arise from breast prostheses.
- Once it is in place, it is a definitive result.
Disadvantages of autologous fat grafting:
- Only a moderate breast augmentation can be achieved.
- It needs to be operated in two places, donor area and recipient area (breast).
- Large volumes cannot be injected in a single procedure. It will require several surgical procedures over time.
- The results often remain somewhat unpredictable and with a risk of asymmetry, due to the variable resorption of the infiltrated fat.
- Breast Lipofilling generates an important inflammatory process, and it takes about 4 months for the breast volume to stabilize and the fat to be fully integrated.
- The fat cells change their volume when patients gain weight or lose weight.
- It requires a lot of dedication: it is performed in several sessions and each injection involves hospitalization of the patient. Requires more touch-ups.
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3. Injection of Filler Materials: consists of breast augmentation through the injection of filler products. They are currently prohibited because of the risk of hindering the early diagnosis of breast tumor pathologies.
In any case, the specialist in Plastic Surgery will help you choose the most appropriate in each case.