Breast Augmentation: Q&A
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I have keloid-prone skin and would like to have implants. Are there chances of hardening of breasts or having breast higher than normal? Do people who get keloids have more problems with breast implants? Do you have any suggestions?
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Keloids and Breast Augmentation
Keloids are an uncontrolled growth of fibroblasts and collagen in the DERMAL layer of the skin. Because the areola has a modified dermal layer (very thin), it is very rare to have an areolar keloid. Similarly, because there is no dermis in the capsule it would be unlikely that you would have a higher rate of capsular contracture related to keloid formation.
Your risk should be the same as other typical surgical candidates. The other incisions such as the inframammary sulcus or axilla...
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Keloid prone skin and breast augmentation
Your risk of capsular contracture is probably not any greater if you form keloids on the skin.
However every breast implant surgery has risk with it, including capsular contracture.
Breast augmentations usually involve a short incision, so with attention to the wound and expert technique, the usually low risk of an unsatisfactory scar may be a tolerable risk.
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Breast implants and keloids
I have performed breast augmentation on patients with active keloids and caution them to follow up regularly to prevent thickened scar formation on the areola and breast. These patients have done extremely well with their breast implants.
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Scarring after breast augmentation
Hello,
There is not a lot of good evidence to suggest that keloids in one area increases the problems of scarring with breast augmentation. Keloids are part genetic but it is also environmental and location based. Discuss this with your plastic surgeon and have him examine your past keloid history as sometimes there is a reason for bad scars other than our genetics and sometimes a keloid is not actually a keloid.
All the best,
Dr Repta
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Capsular contracture risk and keloid scarring are not related.
It is normal to be concerned if you have had problems with surgical scars in the past. Unfortunately, your prior surgical scarring history often gives us no insight into your risk of developing breast implant capsular contractures. Having a consultation with a Plastic Surgeon can help to sort out whether you have had previous "keloid scarring" or the much more common process of "hypertrophic scarring". Patients who have true "keloids"...
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Keloids, capsules, and breast implants
I know of no studies associating keloid formation with an increased rate of breast capsular contractures. I would be more concerned that you would form a keloid at the site of the implant incision.
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Beware, no matter what the incision
If you truly have keloid skin, then you need to be aware that you can form them at any incision site, including the periareolar. A consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon will confirm whether or not you are truly a keloid former. Good luck!
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Incision placement important for those who scar poorly
There are two types of scar conditions which raise a red flag in cosmetic surgery and breast augmentation. Keloid formation is agressive scar that forms in an injured area of the skin and causes thick scar to form even beyond the point of the skin injury. Keloid scar is modulated by our genetic makeup, and those who develop keloid scar, or have the trait in their family often know. Keloids occur is specific areas, earlobe and jawline, back and deltoid or shoulder, lower breast and flank,...
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Keloids: maybe, Contracture: no
Seriously: Treating a patient that is keloid prone is an extra challenge for the surgeon. Surgeons don't have much control over how your body heals the incision. A routine, carefully repaired wound usually heals well. If you formed a permanent, enlarged, raised, hard, purple or pink ridge wherever your skin was injured every time, no matter how minor the injury, you are probably going to get such a scar if you have breast augmentation. You may or may not consider this serious enough to...
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You can have breast augmentation done through the nipples.
Hi! Keloid formers do NOT have an increased risk of problems with breast augmentation other than the possibility of a skin keloid in the surgical scar.
Sexual skin (the nipple and areola, the scrotum, etc.) heals with much less scarring than regular skin. We actually don't know why this is so.
Of course there are no guarantees, but I have done a number of breast augmentations through the areolas in keloid formers, who went on to heal with very good scars.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.
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