To Best Offer You Options, A Surgeon Must Be Familiar With Various Breast Surgery Approaches

Many different surgical options exist in breast augmentation

. To be able to offer you options, a surgeon must be familiar with different approaches and implants and have the experience and skill to apply those options confidently. There is no specific set of surgical options that is best for every breast surgery patient. If you are offered only one set of options, that may be the only options a breast surgeon can offer - consult other plastic surgeons.

Every patient tends to think that the options she chose are also the best options for someone else, that isn't true because no two women are exactly alike. Your tissues are definitely different. No surgical option is perfect. No cosmetic breast surgery option is without trade-offs. The question is whether you know the relative benefits and trade-offs and pick the options that best maximize the benefits and minimize the trade-offs. If you and your plastic surgeon don't discuss your tissues and how your tissues influence the best choice of breast implant for you, you will need to blame something or someone for the consequences. You will probably blame the implant or the surgeon, when it's really you who's largely responsible.

The most important priority in selecting a pocket for the implant is to assure optimal tissue coverage over your implant for your entire lifetime. Optimal tissue coverage means assuring that all portions and edges of your breast implant are covered by the most tissue available, given your body characteristics.

If your tissues are thin in the areas that cover your implant (and we will show you how to measure later), you may need to put the implant partially behind muscle, especially in the upper and middle areas of the breast, to assure adequate tissue cover over the implant. If you don't, you run more risks of seeing the edges of your implant and seeing visible traction rippling later, both of which are usually uncorrectable. But there is much more to making the decision.

Implants in the past have been placed in one of two locations: In front of your pectoralis muscle, but behind your breast tissue - retromammary placement, or partially behind your pectoralis muscle - partial retropectoral placement.

Now there is a new and frequently better option: dual plane1 - behind muscle in the upper breast and behind breast tissue in the lower breast - the best of both worlds above, while minimizing the trade-offs of each!

When silicone-gel-filled implants were available and widely used in the United States, surgeons began placing implants partially behind the pectoralis muscle because silicone-gel implants had a lower risk of capsular contracture (excessive firmness) when they were placed partially behind the pectoralis. With today's saline-filled implants, the risk of capsular contracture is about the same whether the breast implant is placed in front of the muscle or behind the muscle. So how do you choose, and what difference does it make? Based on the thickness of your tissues, the choice is made - how much thickness you have to cover your implants.

by: Dave Stringham

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