I had a breast augmentation done about 3 years ago. However, about a month ago, I saw a bump, near my left breast. It looked as though it was a bone showing a little due to my weight loss. I went to my surgeon to make sure everything was okay, and he thought it was a capsule and injected it with a small dose of kenalog. Almost immediately the surrounding sking turned red. Three weeks later, the skin is still red, and now have rippling, and my cleavage on one side looks flat. It's not like the round look my breast used to have. Will the redness ever go away? Is the dent ever going to fill so my breast will look round again? Is there anything I can do to make this better?
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Feeling the implant folds is normal. Some factors may accentuate those areas, however. If the implant is too big, if the implant pocket is above the muscle, if you have textured implants, if you have saline implants and they were underfilled, if you have lost significant weight recently or...
Breast Implant Rippling most often occurs when there is insufficient soft tissue coverage due to little overlying body fat and breast tissue. Implants placed beneath the muscle help to minimize this phenomena but the lower and outside breast (as pectoralis muscle is no longer present), towards...
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The only way to know with any certainty whether you have a leaking or ruptured implant is to pay a visit to your surgeon's office and have him/her examine you.
With saline implants, as long as you are beyond the period of postoperative swelling, any short term change in the volume of...