Breast Implants: Q&A
Ask a QuestionI Have Some Concerns About Double Bubble Affect. What Are the Best Ways to Avoid This? (photo)
I am about 5'3 130lbs maybe a 32B who breast fed with 36C's (breasts are saggy and deflated as a result) and wanting to expand back to that size or slightly larger. Very small framed up top with a 26in waist and 42in hips. Seen a few photos of smaller framed women end up with the double bubble..thoughts?
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Mamabear23
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Breast Implant Double Bubble-How to Avoid
Thank you for your question. From your photo you appear to have very normally shaped Breasts and appear to be a good candidate for Breast Implants.
Double Bubble is a technical Surgical problem which is under the control of your surgeon. You do not have any predisposing factors to a double bubble.
Too aggressive lowering of the breast implant pocket in an attempt to lower an implant into a sagging breast is the most common cause of double bubble.
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Double bubble concern
From your picture , you appear to have an average small breasts. You are not ptotic ( droopy ) and the deflation with loose skin will be easily solved with the implants. You do not have to be concerned about double bubble because your crease needs to be lowered only mildly. On the picture you look more like a 32 A than a 32 B. To become a full 32 C you will need around 325cc saline implants. Saline implants give the surgeon...
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Double bubble
The "double bubble deformity usually occurs when the implant is place low to try to make up for droopiness. This is usually a mistake, the implant needs to just go in the correct pocket and if a lift is needed it should be done. From your pictures I would think that you would have a good result with augmentation only as implants alone can give quite a bit of a lift.
Sincerely,
Gary Hall,MD
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Double bubble risk
The tern double bubble is loosely applied to several conditions where the breast seems to have more that one contour. Most surgeons define this in a setting where an implant sits below the breast fold and that fold causes and indentation that is visible. This term is also given to the situation where a women who flexes her pec muscles causes such an indentation.
To add confusion, some use the term to define a condition in which there is an implant that is higher the the breast...
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Concerned about Double Bubble after Breast Augmentation?
Thank you for the question and picture.
Careful selection of your plastic surgeon and careful breast implant pocket dissection will help minimize chances of complications such as quote double bubble” or breast implant malposition issues.
I think that you are starting at a very good place; there is nothing about your picture that makes me worry that you are at increased risk for any of the above complications.
Best wishes.
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I Have Some Concerns About Double Bubble Affect. What Are the Best Ways to Avoid This?
Only way to avoid is above muscle implantation. But with your thin skin and little breast tissue I would advise against that approach. Seek in person evaluations from boarded PSs in your city.
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You should be fine, just pick a good plastic surgeon
Hello,
A double bubble is usually caused by the breast fold and this occurs when the implant is placed lower than the breast fold. This can be done by accident but sometimes this occurs on purpose when the surgeon tries to place a larger implant lower down on the chest to make up for a low areola or breast tissue laxity and to try and avoid a breast lift. A breast lift should be performed if you need it but you do not appear to be in that category. You will simply have...
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"Double bubble" deformity after breast augmentation
It is difficult to give you an exact answer with out a proper exam. But the "double bubble" deformity refers to an implant the "drops" below the inframmary fold and seems as in the lower pole of the implant is "coming out of the breast tissue". I think what you are trying to avoid is a "snoopy deformity". A deformity that is caused when a breast augmentation is performed on a women that actually needs a breast lift in addition to the augmentation. In that case the opposite of the "double...
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