Plastic surgery? (women only)?
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It depends on what you mean. I had a breast reduction and was safe and one of the best things I ever had done. If you are talking about breast implants then I think that inserting foreign objects into your body and hoping they don't get rejected (when it's your body's main goal to rid itself of foreign objects in it) is a little bit weird but I understand a lot of people do it. it does make it harder for future health concerns, for instance your mammograms in the future will be more time consuming and your implants will always be in the way of some parts of normal breast tissue so you have the potential to miss a small operable cancer before it becomes a life threatening cancer. Make sure you understand the long term risks, what happens if they have to take the implants out and can not be replaced, know your anesthesia risks for surgery, know that recovery can be very painful and can cause you to take time off work that you weren't planning for so be sure that your employer is going to go for that and you don't lose your job to a complication from an elective surgery.
Any surgery has risks of complications and even death. Choose a doctor that has done your specific surgery many times and you'll have less to worry about.
This is of course, just my personal opinion. Women should stick with what God has endowed them with or not endowed them with. I feel like the only reason for a breast augmentation is once a women has aged and is not planning on having any more children. If the breasts are really sagging, then it might call for some lifting. Otherwise, revel in the fact that God made you the way you are and just grow old gracefully and without all the fakeness that society says is necessary.
Things go wrong all the time in plastic surgery with the breasts. But my mom had it and she's fine.
Breast augmentation doesn't have many high risks, but there are some to be aware of. Do your research first and you should be fine. Choose a good known doctor!
Yes, it's safe as long as your surgeon is approved by the Board of Plastic Surgery. Whatever you do, Stay in the U.S.A. for surgery! Some girls decide to go to Tijuanna, Mexico for discount plastic surgery and they come back looking a complete MESS!
Every surgery has risk's involved. If I was going to get work done on my body, I would consult with multiple doctors. I would also take a look at past surgery's that they have done, and make sure you like there work. I am a 34DD naturally, and as you may see it as I am lucky. I don't, it is really hard to get comfortable at night, and it's hard to find certain clothing. Make sure this is what you really want!! I wish you the best of luck!!
Breast augmentation surgery alone can be performed with 4 incision locations:
- The infra-mammary crease (under the breast envelope where it meets your chest wall)
- The areolar incision - (nipple)
- The transumbilical breast augmentation (TUBA) - (belly button)
- The axillary incision - (armpit).
I have had both a transumbilical, and an areolar incision for implantation. I will more than likely have the areolar incision again with my re-implantation this fall. Why areolar? Because I may need a small lift again and he will be cutting there anyway. I may be getting silicone implants this time around. But, if I did not need a lift I would be choosing the axillary incision.
The benefits of the axillary approach are the lack of scars upon the breast, as well as no disruption of possible nipple sensation as with areolar incisions. Mammary crease incisions can be obvious and unsightly, especially when the surgeon does not take care in choosing a discreet, yet effective, incision length. This leaves the axillary and transumbilical breast augmentation (TUBA) or so-called “scarless breast augmentation” approach.
Now, I personally like the TUBA (belly button) method. It was my first method used for breast implant surgery and I healed relatively fast compared to my other procedures. However, many surgeons do not offer this method to their patients yet. So, the second method of choice for a standard approach to augmentation would be the axillary (armpit) incision.
The key benefit of the axillary method is the ease of placement of full unders. Full unders, or full sub-muscular placement is when the breast implants are placed under the pectoralis major, the serratus muscles and the rectus abdominus fascia. This method has often been referred to as a sort of internal bra. Not all patients may be candidates due to their anatomy and not all with get a suspension effect, but it can be effective in many patients.
Ask your surgeon if he performs the armpit incision method if you are interested in getting a “scarless” breast enlargement procedure.
So, you would ask - how bad is scaring after breast augmentation?
Obviously a scar forms with any incision or injury to the skin, but the scars are not actually visible unless you run around with your arms up in the air. And even with this, in time the scars will fade. If you get a natural looking set of implants placed using the axillary method, one will ever know you have had the oh-so-gossiped-about boob job!
There are several risks associated with breast enlargement. Remember that a risk is something that the surgeon cannot control, so misplacement of the implant, for example, is not a risk. If your prospective surgeon does not describe all the risks of the surgery, do not let him operate on you. Find someone else.
1) Infection: Infection is very rare; however, should an infection occur, the implants might have to be removed. They should be replaced later on at no extra charge.
2) Bleeding: Bleeding after the surgery is also very unusual. It is not life threatening. This can happen because a small blood vessel can open up a few hours after the surgery and begin to ooze. The breast would swell a great deal and become quite painful. It would necessitate returning to the operating room to stop the bleeding. It is not a dangerous condition, only something that needs to be taken care of.
3) Hardness of the breast: The most common problem with breast augmentation is that the breasts might not feel natural. This can happen because your body makes a covering around the implant, sort of like a scar, that is referred to as a capsule. This is the way the body walls off an object that is foreign to it. If you form a thin capsule around the implant, your breasts will feel soft. Unfortunately, if your body makes a thick capsule, it can squeeze the implant and then it will feel hard. This is called capsular contracture. (Think of it as a balloon not quite filled with water that you then squeeze - it feels hard.) The problem does not cause illness; it is simply unaesthetic. It can be remedied in most cases with a procedure called a closed capsulotomy. To accomplish this, the doctor will squeeze your breast very hard to break the capsule. (It is almost impossible to break the implant.) Breaking the capsule alleviates the contracting effect and allows the space around the implant to expand making the breast feel soft again. This could recur again. Years ago a surgical procedure call open capsulotomy was performed. This entailed opening the old incision and removing the capsule. It was soon learned that this was fruitless, as the capsule almost always formed again the same way.
It is, however, strongly recommended that closed capsulotomy no longer be done on those with silicone gel because these older implants are more prone to rupture.
4) Rippling of the implant: Sometimes, when the capsule forms, it can pull the implant in such a way that it causes it to ripple. This is sometimes felt and less frequently seen. There is nothing that can be done once this occurs. Rippling is much more frequent in women who have stretch marks or very thin breast tissue after pregnancy (not small breasts, breast tissue that has thinned after having a child).
5) Deflation - Leakage: If a saline implant has a manufacturers defect, the saline would slowly leak out and be absorbed and eliminated. It is totally harmless - just like drinking salt water. The manufacturers guarantee the implants, providing a new one for no charge and reimbursing the surgeon a modest amount for replacing the implant. Gel implant leakage will be discussed further on.
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