Mammary Augmentation with Mammary Implants

Each day there is a larger number of women who wish to increase the size of their breast, and more and more young women are undergoing this procedure. It’s normal to see women as young as 18 asking to have an augmentation mammoplasty, valid request when the breasts are too small.

The concept of the ideal breasts size has changed through history, being influenced by the age, culture, and fashion, although the ultimate decision is made by the patient, according to what she thinks is pretty and proportionate, and helped by the concepts of beauty given by the surgeon.  

Types of implants

The two types of implants most frequently used all around the world, now in days, are the ones filled up with silicone gel and the ones filled up with water. Each type of implant has its specific indications and it hasn’t been proved to have any relation with breast cancer or any auto immune system sickness.  After studying your case, the plastic surgeon will choose which is the best implant for you. 

To fill up your breasts, these implants should be lodged either behind the mammary glands or behind pectoral muscles. The location of the implants will depend on the amount of mammary glands the patient has, if the patient suffers a mammary diseases that needs frequent biopsies, the degree of mammary ptosis and the surgeon’s experience. None of these two possible locations affect breastfeeding, because the implants are placed behind the glands. The nipples’ sensibility will not be affected, either, but if it happens it will be temporary..

There are different access routes for this procedure and it will depend on the surgeon, among them we have periareolar, transareolar, the sub mammary, the axillary, umbilical and the trans abdominal which is placed during abdominalplasty.

All these access routes are valid depending on the case and the experience of the surgeon. Remember that the results will speak by themselves. The surgery is performed in the operating room of a medical center or hospital, under local anesthesia and sedation or blockade or general anesthesia. In an hour of surgery you will obtain a mammary augmentation instantaneously with the size and the shape you dreamed of. For the surgery the patient must be healthy and the blood test results and controls must be within the normal limits. The surgery is an out patient procedure and the patient can return to normal activity the third day after the surgery, without any problem. The augmentation mammoplasty is a routine surgical option that presents no complications and will give many satisfactions to the patient.