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Tips or Tricks to Getting Breast Implant to Drop

I am one week post op and one breast has already dropped the other is extremely high and tight. I was told by my ps to push down and hold for a few seconds on the left implant several times each day. Is there any other tips or tricks? What about sport muscle creams? Anyone find anything that helps relax the muscle to speed up the process? I am embarrassed because even with loose shirts on I have been asked at work twice now why one breast looks larger.

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6 Doctor Answers | Asked by sblair77 in houston

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Breast implant displacement exercises to promote descent of high riding implant

SEE VIDEO with EXERCISES BELOW. This video illustrates some of the exercises as well as upper pole band to promote descent of the breast implants. I sometimes encourage patients to do this twice or three times as frequently on the higher side. see video

Implant position

TIme will be the best method to allow the implants to settle. Creams do not do anything, massage may keep the pockets open.

Steven Wallach, MD

13 reviews

Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Breast implants settling

The best thing to do is to be patient. You are only a week post-op. It can take several months before your breasts settling completely. Also, your breast can heal at different rates so while you are satisfied with the one, the other should catch up providing there are no other issues such as capsular contracture. Gravity always wins. The other factor to consider is the degree of asymmetry before the augmentation. This could affect your results as well. Gently massaging your breast may... more

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Assuming that your Plastic surgeon created the same pocket for the implants, put them in and verified symmetry while you were placed upright - even when all of this is routinely done, many women still have breast asymmetry. The reasons? 99% of women start by having breast asymmetry. Adding the same implant to already asymmetric breasts will not correct the asymmetry. In fact the father a breast is off the plane of the chest wall, the more the appearance of asymmetry is magnified. Second,... more

Peter A. Aldea, MD

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Memphis Plastic Surgeon

Breast implants settling

It's not unusual for your breasts to heal and settle at different rates. Your right breast seems a little more swollen, which again is not unusual. You can gently massage the breast as your surgeon has advised, and sometimes we have patients wear a strap to help bring things down. Time will do everything for you on its own, however, and this should be down within a month after surgery. (PS, tell whoever at work is looking at your breasts to keep their eyes off your... more

Breast implants should look good right away.

Hi. 1) This is a widely held idea, that breast implants have to "drop" or "settle". This is not true in our experience. The look of the implants is determined by how and where the implant pockets are made. They are not likely to come down with time. In fact, if there is a capsular contracture, they can move up. 2) When doing breast augmentation in NYC, we sit the patient up before the end of the operation (you are still under anesthesia, of course) to make sure the... more

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