How Do You Make a Brand New Pocket During a Breast Augmentation Revision, when the First Was Under the Muscle?

I am getting a BA revision and replacing smooth silicone under rounds with textured gummy bear anatomicals. I am going much smaller, as well. My surgeon indicated that he will be leaving the old pocket (collapsing it) and making another pocket for the Natrelle 410 (since it requires a new pocket so that it does not rotate). My current BA is under the muscle, so how does he still do a "dual plane" placement if the muscle has already been dissected? Will it be subfascial, or how does that work?

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6 Doctor Answers | Asked by CovetingSmallPerkyBreasts in Denver. Pre-Surgeries: Deflated Natural D. Current Size 32 C. BWD: 13. I NEVER WANTED LARGE BREASTS!

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Neo-pectoral pocket pocket

Dr. Edwards explained this very well. The technique your doctor mentioned is well described and called a neo-pectoral pocket. (Google it) It involves dissecting the top of the existing capsule off of the breast tissue inferiorly and off of the bottom side of the muscle superiorly and collapsing the pocket. This creates a new pocket under the muscle - called a neo-pectoral pocket. This allows a tight pocket for a shaped implant.

This is most likely a "neo-subpectoral" pocket

The technique of leaving the existing capsule in place and dissecting a new pocket just on top of it but still staying partly under the muscle is a well-described technique that allows your plastic surgeon to make a new space for your new textured implant. I would ask for more details from your plastic surgeon if this isn't very clear. Take care. Dr. Edwards

New Pocket Dissection during Revisionary Breast Surgery?

For the most precise answers, it is always best to check with your plastic surgeon. Most likely, the surgeon will be dissecting a space above the pectoralis major muscle and below the breast gland. Hope this helps.

Still possible to put implant under muscle and new pocket

Your surgeon can make a new pocket between the muscle and your old empty pocket. There are other ways of doing it, but that's the most likely. Good luck.

Breast implant revision

The type of revision you have depends upon what problem you are trying to correct. A new pocket often can solve certain problems, but it is not always necessary. Overall,,I do,not like so,called anatomic implants because of the issue you refer to, namely rotation of the implants. This happens even in the best of hands. Stick with a round implant is my advice.

Best Techniques for Breast Implant Revision

I have been doing cosmetic breast surgery in Denver for the past 20 years. It is the number one thing I do. To make a fresh pocket after submuscular augmentation requires subglandular placement of the implant. They may call it subfascial but the fascia is very thin and it is in reality a subglandular implant, which in my experience is not the best choice as there is a much higher incidence of rippling and capsular contracture. I do not like the gummy bear implants as I feel they tend to... more