Do Implants Cause the Same Weight / Shoulder Pull as Natural Breasts?

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do women with b or c cups and recieve a d or dd cup implants experience the same weight and pull at the shoulders as a women with natural dd cups do or are they lighter ?

10 answers to Do Implants Cause the Same Weight / Shoulder Pull as Natural Breasts?

Weight of breast implants

The answer is yes. Breast implants, volume for volume, weigh essentially the same as normal breast tissue. That and the fact that most clothing is made for a “C” cup are reasons not to make one’s breasts too large.

Robert T. Buchanan, MD
Highlands Plastic Surgeon

Weight of breast implants in relation to breast tissue

For a given volume, saline implants weigh slightly more than breast tissue and silicone implants weigh slightly less.

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Implants and natural breast tissue have about the same weight and same pull

Generally, it doesn't matter if you are a certain size naturally or due to breast implants. The pull on your tissues will be the same. Your shoulders, neck and back will feel the same pull and weight. This is an important consideration when selecting breast implants. Some patients are under the incorrect assumption that breast implants somehow do not pull. This is a mistake. Good luck! Dr. Parham Ganchi

Parham Ganchi, MD
Wayne Plastic Surgeon

Do Implants Cause the Same Weight / Shoulder Pull as Natural Breasts?

The answer is yes. The weight is about the same for saline , silicone or fat. In other words 500cc breast implants whether made of silicone or saline or 500grams of fat as use in natural breast augmentation surgery , will weight about 1.1 pound each. However,for most natural breast augmentation patients, the amount of fat grafted during a single operation is a about 150cc to 250cc per breast. It is very rare to graft 500cc of fat to a single... more

Jaime Perez MD
Tampa Plastic Surgeon

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Should pull from implants

The larger (heavier) the implants the more likely gravity will pull on them a bit more than previously without the implants.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Implant Augmented Breasts are subject to the SAME gravitational forces as Large "Natural" Breasts

Regarding: " Do Implants Cause the Same Weight / Shoulder Pull as Natural Breasts? do women with b or c cups and recieve a d or dd cup implants experience the same weight and pull at the shoulders as a women with natural dd cups do or are they lighter ?" Gravity exerts the SAME mass and distant proportionate force on EVERY object on earth (look up Sir Isaac Newton's First and Second Laws). As such, our individual weights are a measurement of the Earth's... more

Peter A. Aldea, MD
Memphis Plastic Surgeon

The weight of implants

The short answer is yes. Implants have weight (you can estimate about 1g of weight per cc of fluid volume in the implant--so a 500 cc implant would weigh about 500 g, which is 1.1 pound. You'll feel that pull. It may be slightly less if you place the implant beneath the muscle.

Carmen Kavali, MD
Atlanta Plastic Surgeon

Implants under muscle may feel lighter

An implant placed under muscle/fascia (including a textured implant placed in a dual plane pocket) is held close to the chest wall (rib cage) by the muscle and/or fascia. Normal breast tissue or Implants over muscle do not have this same support, and are farther from your center of gravity, and thus pound for pound, are likely to feel heavier than sub muscular/fascial implants.

Michael Kreidstein, MD
Toronto Plastic Surgeon

Implants Cause the Same Weight / Shoulder Pull as Natural Breasts

Dr Rosenblatt explained it very easily. If you add a 2 pound weight to your breasts than you will have a pull down. So if the implant weighs 2 pounds than you guess it you will have a downard pull.

Darryl J. Blinski, MD
Miami Plastic Surgeon

Sometimes

If you leave them in the box, they cause no pulling or weight -- in the body, they are the same as breasts, the bigger they are, the heavier they are.