Round Moderate Vs High Profile Implants

asked 3 years ago by Godsend101 in Lake stevens wa
Latest answer by Tom J. Pousti, MD
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Tags: comparison, high profile, round moderate, shape

I am an extremely small chested athletic type person getting a breast augmentation. I was told by my plastic surgeon that high profile would be the best. I'm not sure I like the looks of them on patients the same size as me. What is the difference between round moderate plus and high profile implants?

9 answers to Round Moderate Vs High Profile Implants

The high profiles are less natural looking

The three implant profiles are designed to create different "looks" depending on what the patient desires. "Moderate" profiles look the most natural (what nature can make) with no excess upper pole fullness. "Moderate plus" profiles look slightly fuller than natural, what one of my patients termed "perma-cleavage." "High profile" implants are designed to provide dramatic excess upper pole fullness. If your chest wall is very narrow, and if you have very little breast tissue, the high... more

Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

How to pick breast implant sizes or shapes.

1) This is the most common type of question on RealSelf. 2) It is the surgeon's job to pick the right breast implants, not the patient's. Implant selection is really pretty technical. 3) Make sure your surgeon REALLY understands the look you want. Mentioning a cup size is not enough. Show your surgeon pictures of breasts you like. 4) Then your surgeon has to tell you if your chosen look is realistic for your anatomy. The most common mistake is to go too big. 5) I recommend that the surgeon... more

George J. Beraka, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Impant shapes

Volume for volume, the high profile implants have a smaller diameter or base width and more projection than a moderate plus implant. If you are narrow and want alot of projection you go with the HP's. If you want more side breast or curve, you go with the moderate plus.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Choose size, then profile

The most important thing for you is to pick a size that is consistent with your lifestyle and level of activity. The way I ususally do this is to have the patient try differnt implants on in a bra of the desired cup size. When you are doing this the implant just conforms to the bra so it isn't what we go on the choose profile. The next most important thing in my opinion is the implant diameter, which has to conform to the natural base diamter of your breasts. Once you know the size the... more

Richard Baxter, MD
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

High profile are rounder

The higher the profile, the more round the implants for the same width. If you have very little soft tissue, then high profile implants will give you breasts that look more like the implants. I generally start with the flatter, least projecting implants when analyzing a patient and see if the dimension of implant that fits the natural breast will give the look you desire. If not, then I start to vary the projection and width. It is rare that I end up using the high profile implant if a... more

Robin T.W. Yuan, MD
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon

Breast Implant Profiles?

Thank you for the question. The difference between these implants have to do with the dimensions ( diameter and height) of the implants. For example, the high-profile implant has a greater projection and a smaller diameter compared to the moderate profile implant. The moderate plus profile implant as projection and diameter characteristics that fall between the moderate profile and high profile implants. I prefer to have a wide selection of implants ( all profiles)... more

Tom J. Pousti, MD
San Diego Plastic Surgeon

High profile implants look more fake

Hello, High profile implants stand out from the chest more prominently than lower profile designs and tend to look more like "fake" breasts. Look at some images from your doctor so he or she can help you sort this out.

John P. Di Saia, MD
Orange Plastic Surgeon

Implant profiles in breast augmentation

There is no definitive answer. The benefit of saline implants is that they offer a spectrum of choices and you can fill implants differently to achieve different profiles. For example, moderate plus can be filled in a range (i.e., the 320 implant can be filled to 380cc; at 320, it will be closer to a moderate profile whereas at 380, it will look more like a high profile). However, it's not just the shape of the implant that determines your outcome. It is a complex interplay between implant... more

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Projection...

Hi there- A high profile implant is going to give more projection than a moderate plus profile or moderate profile implant will, for the same volume... This means that if you had a 250 cc high profile implant placed on one side, and a 250 cc moderate profile implant placed on the other side (and no one would ever do this), the side with the high profile implant would stick out further from your ribs than the other implant. It would also be a bit narrower... I agree with my colleague below, and t more