Looking for Chicago surgeons experienced with breast implant downsizing (photo)

Dear user162626,

finding the right Dr. is extremely challenging especially with the number of online platforms and resources available. There a lot of great Dr's available. Make sure he/she is a board-certified plastic surgeon. Definitely check to make sure your choice specializes in the procedure you want and spend the time to read through patient testimonials. There is a number of different sites where you can check for reviews (Realself, yelp, google, etc.).
You can always pick up the phone and call around also, find an office you feel comfortable with and set up a few consultations.


Daniel Barrett, MD
Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Your breasts are very low on the chest wall and you have symmastia. At this time, I recommend explantation and lift using The Bellesoma Method. The implants are removed, your breast tissue is reshaped creating upper pole fullness and elevated higher on the chest wall. Vertical scars are avoided, nipple sensation (in 95%) and the ability to breast feed are maintained if not injured during your previous surgery. Later, fat transfers can be performed if additional volume is desired.

Best Wishes,

Gary Horndeski, M.D.

Downsizing implants is a common request particularly in women who go from their twenties to somewhat older. Going down in size requires pocket adjustments but you can predictably reduce size up to about 250xwithout need to consider a breast lift. Obviously there are other aesthetic considerations that woukd require an in person consultation.

Look at surgeon's website in your area and look at photos of women who went smaller. Most surgeon's do this.

Your breasts are large and you have sym-mastia
You may want to consider removing your implants and not replacing them

Posting on this website is probably not the correct way to find the right provider for your needs.
Ultimately, you have to make the decision.
In my opinion, the best way to find the right provider is to have a number of consultations.
The more consultations you have the more likely you are to find the better provider for your needs.
At this point, you’re probably somewhat familiar with the basic terminology and what involved with breast augmentation surgery.
When consulting for second opinion or revision procedures, patients should always come prepared, bringing with them a complete set of proper before and after pictures of all previous operations and copies of each of the previous operative reports.
If you don’t have these then request them from your previous provider or providers.
After that, make a list of plastic surgeons in your community who seem to do a lot of breast surgery.
Next schedule in person consultations with each of the providers.
There’s no shortcut here.
I don’t believe patients can adequately choose providers from their cell phone or computer.
During each consultation, ask each provider to open up their portfolio and show you their entire collection of before, and after pictures of previous patients with similar breast characteristics who are in the same situation.
This will tell you a lot about each provider.
Highly experienced surgeons should have more before and after pictures than you have time to look at.
If they don’t have examples of previous patients who needed the same procedure or had the same problem, then maybe you’re not with the right surgeon.There’s no one who specializes in revision surgery.
Experience in revisions is directly proportionate to how much surgery is done as primary procedures.
Plastic surgeons who have a lot of breast surgery experience will have a lot of breast revision surgery experience as well.
I suppose surgeons don’t get it right the first time May have more experience doing revisions than those who do quality primary procedures.
If you don’t know where to start, then consider looking up who does most of the breast cancer reconstruction in your community and consult with those providers.
You should make sure that plastic surgeons have at least one decade of breast surgery experience or are at least not right out of residency. Olo medley the decision has to be yours.
There’s no correct number of consultations needed to find the right provider.
The more consultations you scheduled the more likely you are to find the better provider for your needs.
In my opinion, it’s fair for plastic surgeons to charge for second opinion consultations.
Paying for a number of consultations is investment in your long-term quality outcome.
It’s money well spent in my opinion.
One thing to consider when consulting with providers is their ability to clearly understand the underlying primary problem and their ability to explain what the problem is and how they’re going to correct it.
A successful operation needs to start with a clear understanding of what the problem is.The more specific the understanding the better.
Good luck,
Mats Hagstrom MD