Breast implants can cause stretch marks

Stretch marks are essentially a tear in the skin. You can get stretch marks from breast implants when you are young with thicker skin, and the skin needs to stretch quickly to accomodate a new implant. This is NOT common, but is a risk. If  you got stretch marks on your thighs when growing, or have bad stretch marks from a pregnancy, those are indicators you might be at higher risk. And yes, size is a factor. The bigger you go with your breast implants, the more you stretch your skin.

In general women who have had babies and breastfed, have essentially "pre-stretched" their skin already. I find the occurence of new stretch marks for these patients is less.

How to prevent stretch marks? You can't totally prevent them. There is a recent study showing some women are more likely to get stretch marks because of  a genetic predisposition (because of their dermal fibroblasts). 

I do believe in hydration and massaging of the breasts. Studies are unclear if there is a specific lotion which is better. Start massaging the skin before your surgery date, and continue after for about a month.

There is a lot of buzz about nutrition: Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Zinc, avoiding caffeine. I don't know of any studies which support this, but it likely won't hurt.

I hope this helps!

It is extremely unusual to get stretch marks from breast augmentation.

I remains possible, however.

Things that would raise your risk factors would include:

an exceptionally large augmentation. 
A history of stretch marks

Stretch marks (striae) are actually tears within the dermis (a deeper layer of your skin).  They can occur when tissue elasticity cannot keep up with the physical stretch on the skin.  They are problematic because there are not good ways to fix them once they occur.

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