Breast Implant Revision Before & After Case 404

This is a 26 year old, 5'4", 126 pound woman who underwent a breast augmentation 2 years prior by another surgeon. She didn't know her implant size, but felt she was too big and didn't like her shape which she saw as deformed. She decided to undergo an implant exchange with smaller implants, any necessary internal breast work to ensure that the implant pockets were located properly, and then a lift procedure in order to give her an attractive breast contour.

This situation commonly occurs: a woman should have had a breast ift at her original procedure but was either advised she didn't need it or chose not to to avoid the necessary scarring. Notice in these pictures that an attractive breast contour with a scar is much better than a deformed breast shape without a scar.

She underwent implant exchange removing a 400cc implant on the right and a 450cc implant on the left. The right implant had "flipped up" above the muscle do to poor pocket creation during her prior surgery. This is contributing to the unusual appearance on the right. The right pocket was fixed so that the implant stayed under the muscle and then a 286cc silicone gel implant was placed on the right and a 304cc silicone gel implant was placed on the left. Then, perhaps most importantly, an appropriate breast lift was performed to prevent slipping of her natural breast tissue off of the implants and achieve a nicer shape. Notice that a lifted breast shape is much more natural in appearance than a non-lifted breast, when it bis necessary. Many people think that if they do not have a lift, they will avoid the scars and they'll get a more natural shape which is completely untrue, as evidenced by these pictures.

Post-operative pictures are from 6 months after surgery, so the scars are still very noticeable. They will fade considerably over the next year to the point where they will be hardly visible.