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The open ones demonstrated in the picture should heal spontaneously with proper wound care. It's highly likely however that a scar revision will be necessary.
This necrotic problem will heal. Revisions will be needed after a year. Don't rush. There are many ways to correct nipple loss
It appears that your areola was deprived of enough blood supply that some of it was lost and debrided by your surgeon. Closing the wounds after such debridement usually fails and extends the healing time, so that is rarely done. Therefore you are seeing the subcutaneous ("under the skin") fat, and this will heal as the edges are drawn together by the healing process. It may be that the long term scars will be less than desirable, and that would be a fairly easy revision for your surgeon to accomplish.Follow with your surgeon, all the best.
There are several things that contribute to bottoming out, one being implant size. The bigger (and therefore heavier) the implant, the more it will stress the tissues that hold it up. Saline implants may be more likely to bottom out because of fluid wave pressures. Textured implants might stick...
If the implant does not become exposed, the wound should heal and there will be a spread scar, but that is all. If the implant becomes exposed, it will be infected and need to be removed for a period of time. This is the risk of the combination of mastopexy and augmentation.
Those are pretty big implants, and you are already DD-ish. Sounds disproportionately large overall. If you are unsure, get another opinion. There are lots of us board-certified PS out there. Find one who does a lot of augmentation mastopexies (implants and lifts together)...
Following significant weight loss, there is always looseness of the stretched out breast skin as the skin is no longer filled out. Add to that the natural loss of elasticity in breast skin and soft tissue with aging, and the result is deflated, saggy breasts. As a woman ages, the...
It is important to understand that the right breast augmentation and the left are two different operations. One side swells more, one side bruises more, one side is always more sore and one side almost always heals more quickly. Having said that, I do want to remind you to stay in close contact...
Thanks for the question, I ask every patient to have at least one finger preferable more than one to have absolutely nothing on it to make sure the monitoring equipment is working
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