Someone wants to do breast augmentation because of the nature of the breast is not too much, somebody needs implants after weight loss or pregnancy. This operation can be carried out if the breast in women slightly different size. Breast implants are used after surgical treatment of breast cancer and other diseases that can affect the size and shape of the breast.

Breast implant shell is made of a solid silicone, and a silicone gel contained within or saline. To select the most suitable implant type, size and shape, consulted with the surgeon. Manufacturers of breast implants say they will last for at least ten years, but in many cases they are even longer. Breast enlargement is not an obstacle to breastfeeding Breastfeeding: notes ; Silicone does not get into breast milk.

It will be understood that silicone implants have an impact on the image which is obtained during mammography. If you will, this diagnostic procedure is necessary to tell the doctor that you have done breast augmentation.

Preliminary consultation

The decision to have plastic surgery Plastic surgery   It should not be taken hastily. Those who see an opportunity to increase the breast, you should first talk to your family doctor. He can advise the clinic, where do such operations, or a particular plastic surgeon. In such matters it is better to rely on the opinion of the doctor than on advertising.

Patients previously found with a plastic surgeon to discuss the operation. It is important to explain in detail the surgeon's own expectations of operation; He, in turn, should clarify what really can be done. As a result, the patient should form realistic expectations - a factor whose importance can not be overestimated.

Preparation for surgery

Smokers patients several days before surgery recommended to stop smoking, as contained in tobacco smoke increases the risk of substance infections that can slow recovery.

Since breast augmentation done under general anesthesia, about six hours before the surgery patients can not eat and drink.

In some cases, the patient can go home a few hours after the surgery, but sometimes you have to stay in hospital overnight. Going to the operation, bring the necessary things in case you leave the hospital.

Before the operation the surgeon in general will tell you what will happen next; You can also ask your questions. In addition, the doctor will take a photo breast before surgery (and after), and a special marker mark on his chest are the places where to do the cuts. Sometimes, before the operation is carried out as mammography and injected with heparin to prevent blood clot formation.

Transaction

The duration of breast augmentation surgery is usually one to two hours. Once the anesthetic takes effect, the surgeon makes incisions under the breasts, around the nipples, or around the armpit. The place where the incision was made, depending on the characteristics of each operation.

The surgeon then creates a space for the implant. Typically, the implant is placed between the breast tissue and breast muscle, but in some cases it may be placed under the muscle. This reduces the likelihood that the edge of the implant will be showing through the skin of the breast and reduces the risk of complications such as capsular contracture. Larger implants placed under the pectoral muscle is particularly difficult, and after surgery may cause more severe pain than if the implant was placed on the muscle. Anyway, the best method in each case is to choose a surgeon.

At the end of surgery, the surgeon sews the incisions (this can be used absorbable sutures). The patient makes the sling, or wear a special bra.

What then?

When the effect ends the anesthetic, the patient give painkillers. Because general anesthesia for 24 hours continues to affect coordination, speed decision making and concentration, at this time you can not drive a vehicle (any) drink alcohol and operate machinery, which is potentially dangerous to you or others. Throughout the day after surgery, you should not sign any documents. Ask the hospital you took someone from friends or relatives, or call a taxi.

Exactly follow the doctor's instructions on how to wear a bandage or support bra.

Sutures are removed about a week after surgery. If absorbable sutures were used, the period for which they are dissolved, depending on the type of yarn. However, in most cases, the seams almost completely disappear in about six weeks.

Typically, the patient can return to work within one or two weeks after the operation, depending on what kind of operation it performs. Approximately a month after breast augmentation for women can not lift weights and perform exercises for the muscles in the arms and chest. When the implant has been placed under the pectoral muscle, such limitations can be stored for a longer time.

Side effects and complications

In most cases, breast augmentation surgery is only temporary side effects that are a few weeks. The most common of them are the discomfort, pain, and swelling of the breasts. Stitches three months after surgery are pale pink, and then, for a few more months, more lighter, and become almost invisible.

Complications of any operation are: an allergic reaction to anesthesia, excessive bleeding, blood clots (usually - in the veins of the legs).

Specific complications of breast augmentation:

• If the chest by nature a little different size implants because it can become more noticeable (if the surgeon does not take into account this feature, and use the same implants);
• Chest infection. In some cases, to cure the infection, it is necessary to remove the implants;
• The formation of scar tissue around the implant, causing the implant is squeezed and the breast changes shape. This complication, called capsular contracture, can be quite painful. For its treatment sometimes require additional surgery;
• After breast augmentation nipple sensitivity may be reduced or increased. Typically it passes through a complication of several months, in some cases it is constant.

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