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Do Breast Implant Sizers Accurately Demonstrate Final Results of Surgery?

asked 2 years ago by Star24 in Texas
Latest answer by Steven Wallach, MD
Question viewed 564 times
Tags: sizers

When the surgeon is using Breast Implant sizers during surgery to decide on which size to go with, does that mean that the surgeon can see what the actual results of that size will be?

Meaning there's no swelling so that's what the final result will look like once swelling goes down and things have settled?

12 answers to Do Breast Implant Sizers Accurately Demonstrate Final Results of Surgery?

Sizers

Sizers before surgery for the patients to see, and sizers in surgery for the surgeon to evaluate, help in choosing the best implants for the patient.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Use breast implant sizers to determine the size of your implants after augmentation

Hi Star24 - Breast implant sizers are great for getting a rough estimate of the volume that you want your implants to be. However, this only gives you a general idea of how you're going to look...not the actual final result. Swelling, skin stretching, and differences in breast tissue may alter the final result. So, be careful in thinking that breast sizers are going to show you exactly how you are going to look after breast augmentation.

Jeffrey E. Schreiber, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

www.BaltimorePlasticSurgery.com

Sizers for breast augmentation surgery

As well stated by my colleagues, sizers are useful in the management of breast asymmetry. Intraoperatively they aid in the process of determining volume symmetry but are less beneficial for shape symmetry. If there is a choice between two different implants, sizers will often help make the decision on which to use. The breast changes in the course of the healing process and surgeons use sizers as well as their experience to estimate the final result.

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Intraoperative Breast Implant Sizers are NOT 100 percent accurate

I agree with Dr. Rand's post. I like sizers and I use sizers whenever I can. Intraoperative Breast Implant SIZERS are NOT 100% predictive of the exact shape and appearance of the postoperative, healed breast. This is the case for 2 reasons: 1. In the process of creating the implant pocket AND adjusting it even with the use of careful electrocautery dissection, swelling begins taking place (which maximizes in the immediate post operative period). The swelling often leads to OVER-guessing the... more

Peter A. Aldea, MD
Memphis Plastic Surgeon

Breast Implant sizers

The use of the sizers are not a coomom practice. I use it in a situation that the case is complicated. The other option is use of 3D imaging. I been using this for a year. This involves taking 3 dimentional pictures and then using special software to use different size and shape implants before surgery. I been very happy with accuracy and my patient also like to see their breast size before surgery. I also been taking post surgery 3D pictures and in comparison to the computer simulation,... more

Kamran Khoobehi, MD
New Orleans Plastic Surgeon

No perfect way to predict breast size

There are strong opinions for and against the use of sizers in surgery. Surgeons who use them feel that they can better match the implant to the breast after the space is opened by trying sizers in to see how they fit. On the other hand, this leaves the final choice up to the surgeon rather than the patient. Most of my patients prefer to know what they are getting before the surgery. But this means that the size has to be determined some other way, usually by trying sizers in a bra and then... more

Richard Baxter, MD
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Breast implant sizers

The sizers used during surgery will give you as close a size and shape as possible. Although the surgeon will look at you in the sitting position, but most of the time the wound is not completely closed. The size is almost the same as the final result, but the shape may change with time as wounds heal, and scars are formed and the implant has settled.

Samir Shureih, MD
Baltimore Plastic Surgeon

Breast implant sizers can help during augmentation

Breast implant sizers are 'trial' implants that a surgeon may use during an augmentation procedure to help judge the actual size of the implant required for a given result, and help to position the pocket for the final implant. After many years of practice I don't use sizers as much, but do find them helpful if the breasts are asymmetric and implants of two different sizes might apply. The sizers can be considered 'accurate' in that they do aid the surgeon in 'seeing' what the final result... more

Peter E. Johnson, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

www.peterejohnsonmd.com

Sizers during breast augmentation show final result.

Hi. When a sizer is put inside your breasts , the surgeon can see exactly what a particular size of breast implants will look like, because there is no swelling yet. This is the only way to do it.

George J. Beraka, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Do Breast Implants Sizers accurately demonstrate the final results of Breast Augmentation Surgery?

Hi there- There are really two questions here... The first is, do breast implant sizers accurately simulate a breast implant. The answer the that question is absolutely- this is so because the sizers (at least those I am familiar with and use) are basically implants that are a bit more durable so that they can be re-sterilized and re-used. They have the same dimensions for a given volume that the corresponding implant will have, and so when a sizer goes in, it does give a very accurate represent more

Armando Soto, MD
Orlando Plastic Surgeon

www.DrArmandoSoto.com

Breast implant sizers aren't perfect

Breast implant sizers aren't always a perfect match for the final implant. The immediate result on the OR table, even without swelling, isn't what you will look like 3-4 months later. The surgeon has to draw form all their follow up experience over years of practice to try to get to the best size...

Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Breast sizers

Breast sizers are used to estimate what implant to use. Various assessments in surgery go into determining how the sizers are used. Since their are so many implants to choose from, a surgeon would either have to limit the implants he uses or have a sizer that matches eachimplant available. That would be very impractical since each implant company has hundreds of styles and sizers they offer.