Will Band Help with One Breast Implant That's Higher Than the Other?

Will Band Help with One Breast Implant That's Higher Than the Other? There maybe other reasons for this and Iwould not commence the band without your surgeon's advice.
 

Breast implants MUST be placed exactly under your nipples. If your nipples were asymmetric, your augmented breasts / nipples will likely be asymmetric as well.

If your nipples and breasts WERE more or less symmetric before your augmentation, post-augmentation breast asymmetry may have been caused by:
- Under- dissection the pocket of the higher breast
- Capsular contracture of the higher breast
- Over dissection and bottoming of the lower breast

NONE of these conditions are likely to improve by the use of the band. A surgical procedure would likely be required to fix it.

Without looking at your before and After pictures it is hard to advise you what took place.

Yes, I have seen great improvement in implant positioning with "Bands" and "Bandeaus" when they are applied early. There is no question that implants Do Settle over the first few months as the tissues covering the implants relax and that the "bands" help speed this up. If however your implant was originally lower (after your healing was complete) and has move up several months or years after surgery, this is most likely due to a Capsular Contracture. This can be mild (mildly firmer than natural) or severe (much harder than natural)
I would definitely recommend you get your surgeons advice.

I'm sorry to hear that your results are asymmetric, but the effectiveness of the band will be related to how close you are to your augmentation.  If it has been weeks to maybe a month or two, one sided banding can be helpful.  Any longer, however, it is likely the capsule that has formed is stronger than the band.  No matter what your circumstances, another meeting with your plastic surgeon would serve you well.

Best of luck.

Vincent Marin, MD, FACS

La Jolla Plastic Surgeon

First, there is always breast asymmetry so that one has a slightly higher fold than the other.  If it is fairly early, a band may help adjust the position.