I am so sorry that your breast augmentation did not go the way you wanted it to go. Each plastic surgeon has his or her own policy regarding redos, touchups, revisions. As a group, Board Certified plastic surgeons practice plastic surgery as an art form which, incidentally, garners them money. Therefore, most plastic surgeons want to do touchups as much as their patients want them to do touchups, and therefore minimal charges such as anesthesia fees, etc. are the fee for touchups.It is my personal feeling that touchups are not really touchups because plastic surgery is a process and not an event. I believe that if both plastic surgeon and patient see a second surgery as not a new procedure but a second part of the primary procedure, then both surgeons and patients will be happier. Reading RealSelf, not only the surgeons' answers but the patients' questions and concerns, has given me a new pair of glasses when it comes to plastic surgical procedures. I believe patients come in requesting an outcome, and when they don't get that outcome, they feel the plastic surgeon has done something wrong. That is rarely the truth. Very often, the plastic surgeon cannot have an apriori understanding of the elasticity of one's skin or one's propensity for forming a capsular contracture or a hypertrophic scar. Therefore, if both plastic surgeons and patients understand that the outcome may take more than one procedure, the patients might be more understanding and the plastic surgeons will not be so upset when the patients dis their best efforts. Simply put, aesthetic plastic surgery is an outcome. It always has been and it always will be, and honest communication on the subject prior to surgery will eliminate questions about who pays for a redo.
