Breast Implant Sizers in Sports Bra or T-shirt Bra?

The only roll for sizers is to see that the size that fits your tissue is in the ballpark of what you want. It is not at all to make decisions about which size is best. To say it differently, the size you get should be based entirely on your tissue based measurements. The use of sizers should only be to help you know what you will look like.
The biggest mistake women make with breast augmentation is pickinga size based upon some subjective goal they have in their mind for their breast size rather than what is ideal for their tissues. Make sure your surgeon measures you well,and only use the sizers to check that the recommedation is appropriate for what you want.

So what if you want something much smaller than your measurements suggest is ideal? Realize that you will be underfilled, so you will have less upper pole fullness.

What happens if you select something larger than is ideal for your measurements? Then your breast will look overfilled, a bit round, perhaps bulgy on top, and with a more visible rounded look. That's in the short term; in the long term, ther will be greater stretch of your skin and compression of your breast tissue from the too large of an implant, leading to more implant visibility later.

So your question about whether to size in a bra or a tshirt misses the point of sizing. It's true that in the old days that surgeons selected implant sizes on the basis of what a patient wanted in a bra, but today the published data clearly shows the best outcomes when implants are sized objectively.

There are two totally different items that are called sizers:

One is a teardrop shaped cup-like device filled with soft solid silicone. These are made by Mentor and are meant to be inserted in a bra to estimate your desired implant size.The other are exact replicas of actual silicone gel or saline implants and are made by all three manufacturers. Though not designed for this purpose, they are commonly used to choose implant size  - also by placing them in a bra.

I don't know which of these your PS intends to use (more use the latter) but it really doesn't matter. Neither works.





The teardrop shaped ones work somewhat better but even they are, at best, a rough guess. Your breast tissue is unique and is going to be shaped by your implants in a thousand complex ways. Putting any device in your bra is never going to be the same as putting it in your breast. It's like trying on a dress by holding up in front of you.





That's the bad news. The good news is that the implant replicas are actually meant to be inserted temporarily in surgery. Your plastic surgeon can put them in, sit you up, and see EXACTLY what your implants will look like. He can even try different sizes and profiles to find the very best breast implants for you.





So skip the office-based, bra-stuffing ritual. It might get you close, but if it yields the actual optimal implants for you, it's just luck. Have your surgeon use intra-operative sizers. That way there's no guessing!

Sports bras may compress your breasts and the sizers too much. I recommend wearing a regular bra in the size you'd like to be, then put on a tight fitting shirt over to see how you look.However, please note that trying on sizers may give you a good idea about how you may look after surgery, but they aren't totally accurate. They are used to just give you a general idea.