What happens during a breast enlargement?
Breast augmentation is an operation that happens under general anaesthetic. Usually patients will come into hospital on the morning of surgery, having nothing to eat or drink the night before, they’ll meet the anaesthetist, who’ll discuss the anaesthetic with them. They’ll already have their preoperative assessment by the plastic surgery nurse usually and then they’ll [...]Which type of breast enlargement is right for me?
There are a variety of options available for breast enlargement. The most common is to use breast implants. We’ve been using breast implants for the last forty years, and they’ve mostly been silicone type of implant. It’s a bag of silicone, covered by a silicone elastomer that has a cohesive gel silicone on the inside [...]What happens during a breast enlargement?
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It’s important to realise that breast augmentation is actually a full operation. It’s requires a general anaesthetic, it involves incisions through the skin, creation of pockets for the implant, and all of these come with their own set of potential risks and complications. There are risks of just general anaesthetic as well, which relate to [...]Is a breast enlargement right for me?
The most common presentation for breast augmentation is the young 18 year old girl, or 17 year old girl, who’s hoping that her breasts would develop a bit more but they haven’t and she feels that they’re disproportionate with the rest of her body and would like to have breast implants to resolve that. And [...]What aftercare is required after a breast enlargement procedure?
Usually the patient will go home the day after surgery. In my practice we’ll take the drains out the next day and the patient will be discharged home, and I expect the patient to be quite slowed down that week. I usually recommend a full week off, so a week to ten days, and that [...]What is capsular contracture?
So because the breast implant is plastic and it’s recognised as a foreign body by the patient, the body makes a scar capsule around the implant, and that’s a natural way that the body identifies it as separate from itself and it controls the position of the implant very nicely. But in a small group [...]Can you breast feed after a breast enlargement?
Because the implant goes underneath the breast tissue, or underneath the pectoralis muscle, it doesn’t disturb the milk production by the breast. It doesn’t affect the breast ducts, it doesn’t actually affect the gland of the breast tissue. So there’s no real impact on breastfeeding at all. All patients are able to breast feed just [...]Can I get a Breast Enlargement on the NHS?
One question I’m often asked is whether patients can get breast augmentation on the NHS. It used to be available for patients with absolutely no breast development, but it is now been removed from the list of available procedures. The only time we would use breast implants on the NHS is for patients with breast [...]Do the results of Fat Transfer Breast Enlargement Last?
The problem is that not all the fat you inject survives, so probably 50-70 percent of the fat that you put in picks up a blood supply and becomes permanent fat within your breast, and then that is permanent. The remaining 30-50 percent will often dissolve away, so it can be a little disappointing in [...]Is there a link between Breast Enlargement and Cancer?
The other important question that patients want the answer to is whether silicone implants affect breast cancer? Do they cause cancer? Can they affect the identification of breast cancer? And this, once again, has also been looked at very carefully. Silicone implants appear to be the safest type of implant around, we’ve had a variety [...]What’s the Difference Between Silicone and Saline Breast Implants?
There’s quite a difference between different types of implants. The most common one we’ve had in this country, for many years, has been a silicone implant. Silicone is a gooey, plastic, clear liquid and the silicone implant is quite squidgy. It has the sort of feel of a natural breast. In the 80’s there was [...]What are the Risks of lipofilling to the Breast?
Fat transfer for breast augmentation seems like a fantastic idea, but has been very slow to take off in the UK. The reason for that is that we’ve been concerned that injecting fat into the breast might have some adverse effects, for example: it might promote breast cancer and it might make the detection of [...]Is Fat Transfer Breast Enlargement right for me?
I’ve now been using it for the last two years and I find that the group of patients who are younger, 18 to 20, actually really want the boost in breast volume that comes with the breast implant, and so usually they’re more suitable for breast implants. The patients that are really suitable for the [...]