Currently there are two techniques to perform a breast augmentation: the placement of implants and the filling of the breast with autologous fat or lipofilling. Dr. Montserrat Salvador, plastic surgeon and member of Top Doctors, assures that “both techniques are valid and have their indications, but if your objective is to increase your bra cup by one or two sizes, reaffirm and enhance your breast, achieve a full and attractive cleavage, and all this lasting over time, and in a single intervention, you are the ideal candidate for a breast augmentation with prostheses”.
Next, this expert surgeon gives you the 10 reasons why she would advise you to trust breast implants:
1.-Volume
The implants or prostheses are a structure of textured silicone material with a cohesive silicone gel content that maintains the desired shape and projection, and which in turn are soft to the touch. Its placement in depth in relation to the breast tissue, resting on the pectoral muscle, makes them not visible but project the entire breast tissue forward, thus achieving the filling of the bra cup and the turgidity of the skin of the breast.
Naturalness
The choice of anatomical prostheses ensures that the breast does not look “round”, but with breast shape from the beginning.
3.- Safety
In this field I am not going to talk about brands or prices, but about prostheses that have been on the market for more than 30 years without having registered any problem and that meet all the requirements of the CE and FDA for medical product safety.
The existence of different brands of implants is good because there are small differences between them that we can take advantage of to be more selective according to the anatomy and peculiarities, as well as the tastes, of our patients.
The prices in quality prostheses are similar although they vary from one surgeon to another according to the pacts of these with the different commercial houses, and often we get more competitive prices the greater number of implants we place. This benefits our patients.
The risk of rejection currently exists, but it is minimal due, among other things, to the improvement in the quality of the implants.
4.-No pain
For me the implant placement in a subfascial or intramuscular plane is of choice, that is to say in depth, supported on the thoracic muscular plane but without cutting or lifting the pectoral muscle.
This makes the postoperative period painless, you can return to work in a week and without problems of displacement of the prosthesis to the side when you do strength with your arms or do sports.
Some patients think that in this plane the prosthesis will sag before, but it is not due to whether it is in front or behind the muscle, it has more to do with the volume of the implant chosen and the quality of the skin itself. It is important to remember that if your skin tends to flaccidity we should not exceed in volume.
5.- Ambulatory surgery
The placement of implants in the hands of an expert surgeon is a technique that is performed between 60 and 90 minutes, so a short general anesthesia and is performed on an outpatient basis, without hospitalization.
You stay in a recovery room for 2 hours to control pain and wake up from anesthesia.
It can be done on an outpatient basis as long as we do not cut the pectoralis muscle because it is a painless procedure with little risk of bleeding. And, probably, you will recover better and be more comfortable at home, in addition to saving you the hospital stay.
In my opinion, admission only if necessary. We will evaluate it together.
6.- No scars
Breast augmentation with anatomical implants requires us to make a small scar at the lower edge of the areola or at the level of the inflammatory furrow, in either case it is very inconspicuous.
It is very infrequent the definitive loss of sensitivity.
7.- A single intervention or surgery
In a single intervention we achieve the objective we have set ourselves.
8.- Stable results over time
The bra size and cup size achieved are stable and not subject to variation over time, that is, even if you change your weight, the variations in bra size are minimal.
9.- Subsequent controls
Once the follow-up is done during the first year to assess the evolution of the implant and verify that all variables such as scars, sensitivity, pain, soft touch are correct, we will discharge you.
We recommend a mammography to control the integrity of the implant 10 years after the intervention.
10.-Satisfaction guaranteed
The fact of having a wide experience in this surgery and a large number of women operated allows me to conclude that it is a very rewarding and satisfactory surgery for both the patient and the surgeon.