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

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

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 breast in one procedure during natural breast augmentation.This is because high complication rate associated with large fat transfer to breast in a single setting.

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.

They apply roughly the same amount of pull as natural breasts. For this reason, if you're concerned about shoulder/back pain and issues related to larger breasts, you'll want to opt for a size that is balanced with your natural body proportions.

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

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

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 gravitational pull on each of us. The bigger/heavier we are the greater the force of gravity on us).

Put another way, 0.5 kilogram of weight = 500 cc of water. So adding a 500 cc Saline breast implant to a breast would have THE same weight as if the breast was naturally larger by 500 grams. Silicone gel implants are slightly lighter (weighting 0.97 grams for cc of volume). As a result, adding a 500 cc silicone breast implant would add a 485 gram weight to the breast - saving a mere 15 grams.

For this reason, you should always get the smallest (IE lightest) breast implants that make you happy instead of the biggest.

Dr. Aldea

your measured weight is actually a measurement of the force of the Earth's gravity on you. The heavier you are, the greater is the force of gravity on you. There are exceptions, like when you are buoyed up by a fluid but that is for another text

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.

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.

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.