Breast Implant Revision recovery timeline?

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I got a breast augmentation, over the muscle gummy bear implants March 2023. unfortunately my surgeon placed the breast pocket lower than my incision and also lower than the breast on the other side so my breast on that side looked like lower, the scar was becoming irritated and itchy. My surgeon suggested opening the imf incision and stitching the pocket higher and opening the pocket more on top. What would the healing process be like? Will I have to drop and fluff again? How long is recovery?

Connie Hiers, MD, FACS · Answer

You will still be restricted up to 6 weeks to let things heal. If there is something specific you wish to do sooner, please ask your surgeon.

Mats Hagstrom, MD (license on probation) · Answer

To make an assessment, any plastic surgery procedure? We generally need to see a complete set of proper before and after pictures.
If you don’t have before, and after pictures, then ask your surgeon to forward the pictures they took of paragraph there are three variables that determine the outcome of breast augmentation surgery.
The first is the patient candidate for the procedure, the second is the choice of implants in regards to size, shape, and type. The third is the surgeon ability to place the implant in the correct anatomic location.
 Whenever there are issues regarding the outcome, the problem is almost always related to one of those three variables.
Without seeing pictures we can’t really make an assessment regarding what the problem is.
Correcting implants that have the bottom out is fairly complex and difficult.
 if you have a bottomed out implants, then you should probably make sure your surgeon has corrected that deformity with a good degree of success previously.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom, MD

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