Unlikely a natural breast augmentation result

York Jay Yates, MD answers: Will high profile implants give "natural-looking" breasts?

I am 5'4" 125lbs, 31" ribcage, 34C (wanting atleast a DD) and my breast measures 13cm wide. I told my PS I wanted large, very nice looking (not high and ball-looking) breasts. He told me he will use a smooth, round, high profile, 500cc silicone implant and it will look "very nice" with a "nice downward slope". Everywhere on the internet says that high profiles don't give a really nice natural look, and that moderate profiles do. Will high profiles give me large, full, and natural-looking breasts with nice cleavage?


York Jay Yates, MD
9 months ago

I don't want to disappoint you but I would argue that at your relatively small frame you will not look natural with a 500 cc implant.  My decision of implant profile is simple.  The appropriate implant diameter for your body/ chest is chosen and the profile depends on the desired implant volume.  Assuming the appropriate implant diameter is 13 cm for you (which would be wide for most 5'4"/ 125 lb patients) then at 500 cc you will be in a high profile implant.  However, you will not look natural and will have unnatural upper breast fullness (some patients desire this).  In Mentor Memory gel implants, a moderate plus implant would be 400 cc at this diameter and a moderate profile would be 275 cc.

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