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Loose Skin, Abnormal Cleavage After Implant Exchange? (photo)

Original BA 350 cc saline 7 years ago. Very hard and unnatural. Had exchange done 4 mths ago. Asked for 500 cc hp silicone and ps put in 650 cc. Resulted in a symmastia look (not true symmastia per ps). Had them removed 5 days ago and am left with abnormal cleavage area. Also had medial capsulorraphy to decrease pocket. Skin is loose, puckered and deformed. Will this go away or is there any surgery that can tighten and smooth out this area. I am so depressed. Don't know what to do.

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Breast skin after implant removal

At 5 days postop it is too early to tell how the breasts will look over time. Your breast skin and tissues have been permanently stretched given the large size of your previous implants and only after more time has passed will you be able to see your new result. Hopefully the dimpling will only get better with time. Sometimes if the breast skin doesn't look as nice as someone wants after removing breast implants the only thing to do is a breast lift. Good luck. more

Options after implant removal and residual loose skin

If I understand correctly you had your original implants removed and at that time there was some degree of a thickened capsular contracture. It sounds like you had a capsulectomy and a medial capsulopexy. Now with the implants removed you are experiencing some degree of skin laxity. This laxity will improve over time but the abnormal folding of skin in the medial quadrant is not likely to improve to any significant degree. This skin was stretched out from your... more

Cleavage issue

Without seeing photos of you pre-op it is difficult to say whether or not this was there before. In addition, you are very early post-op and this may get better with time.

Steven Wallach, MD

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Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

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Thanks for adding the photos to this posting. I am wondering if all three of these are taken at the same day or if the photo on the right is a pre-op photo. The photo on the right seems to have been taken from above. These photos seem to show a "web," and I am wondering if there was something abnormal there before any surgery was done. At any rate, since these seem to be 5 days post-op photos, improvement of any irregularities can be expected... more

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