I got my breasts done 4 months ago. I had 450 cc silicone HP implants. Ive been freaking out all day because I noticed that my nipples seemed really high when I lift both my arms. Is this normal or have my breasts bottomed out??
January 5, 2014
Answer: Bottoming out! Dear March310, yes your breast implants have bottomed out more so on the left than the right side. If you lift your arms it will accentuate the deformity so that doesn't make it worse. Indeed, your bottoming out is very mild and a lot of patients wouldn't even notice it. Patients with mild bottoming out such as yours often choose not to have correction because nobody will notice it. It almost appears that your left nipple was originally a little higher than the right making the bottoming out more obvious on that side. Bottoming out is specially common in thin girls like you and particularly common with saline implants since they are heavier. It seems that smooth surface implants are more prone to produce this deformity so when I anticipate this problem I will choose to use texturized (fuzzy) implants because they seem to stay put and not drift. Bottoming out is a lot more common when the implants are placed under the muscle than over the muscle because the constant action of the muscle pushes them down and out. This problem is correctible in the hands of experienced surgeons because it takes a keen eye to return the inframammary fold to the correct location with accuracy. I do this kind of correction all the time, sometimes in my own patients. So don't freak out, it is fixable. Maybe your own Plastic Surgeon is comfortable correcting it and won't charge you for it. Dr Brou
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January 5, 2014
Answer: Bottoming out! Dear March310, yes your breast implants have bottomed out more so on the left than the right side. If you lift your arms it will accentuate the deformity so that doesn't make it worse. Indeed, your bottoming out is very mild and a lot of patients wouldn't even notice it. Patients with mild bottoming out such as yours often choose not to have correction because nobody will notice it. It almost appears that your left nipple was originally a little higher than the right making the bottoming out more obvious on that side. Bottoming out is specially common in thin girls like you and particularly common with saline implants since they are heavier. It seems that smooth surface implants are more prone to produce this deformity so when I anticipate this problem I will choose to use texturized (fuzzy) implants because they seem to stay put and not drift. Bottoming out is a lot more common when the implants are placed under the muscle than over the muscle because the constant action of the muscle pushes them down and out. This problem is correctible in the hands of experienced surgeons because it takes a keen eye to return the inframammary fold to the correct location with accuracy. I do this kind of correction all the time, sometimes in my own patients. So don't freak out, it is fixable. Maybe your own Plastic Surgeon is comfortable correcting it and won't charge you for it. Dr Brou
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January 3, 2014
Answer: Have my breasts bottomed out? You must of been asymmetry pre operatively.. But you are on the border of "bottoming" Either learn to accept the OK result or have a difficult revision...
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January 3, 2014
Answer: Have my breasts bottomed out? You must of been asymmetry pre operatively.. But you are on the border of "bottoming" Either learn to accept the OK result or have a difficult revision...
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