Not really. Pills, lotions and potions don't work and...

Gregory Turowski, M.D., PhD. answers: Are there any alternatives to breast implants?

i am not sure i should get breast implants.  it scares me to get plastic surgery.  i want to know: what are the non-surgical ways to enhance my bust?  are there natural remedies to breast enlargement?


Gregory Turowski, MD, PhD
18 months ago

Not really. Pills, lotions and potions don't work and actually maybe dangerous. Some of them maybe based on hormonal products and therefore can really affect your health.  Moreover, if there are ANY effects, these are only temporary.

I tried, a few years ago, the BRAVA system but it really did not rise to the promise and we abandoned this idea. Fat injections can potentially cover breast cancer changes.

Surgical breast augmentation remains the only reliable and safe way to predictably increase the size of the breast. Safety and satisfaction is reflected in the numbers. It is the most commonly performed cosmetic surgery (this is true for my practice as well).

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A: Non-surgical options to breast enhancement

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
7 months ago

As stated in many of the previous comments, Options for non-implant breast augmentation are:

1) Hormonal pills, supplements, creams.

2) Brava Breast Enhancement system.

3) Breast augmentation via lipoinjection.

4) Enhancing garments such as bras or inserts.

However, surgical augmentation remains the mainstay of breast enlargement providing reliable, predicatable, relatively consistent and subastantial breast enhancement.

Lipoinjection has recently been viewed as an option, yet concerns with interpreting mammograms as well as the consistency of the result and problems with sufficient tissue in thin paitents limit the applicability of this procedure.

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