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Hello, in my opinion the best thing you can do to ensure a proper recovery is to take good care of your self postoperatively. If you are overdoing things and cause an injury it can significantly delay your healing.
Your body will require a certain amount of time to heal. The healing phase cannot be rushed, but avoiding excessive activities, smoking, and blood thinning medications early can be helpful. Please follow your surgeons advice for post operative care. Placing the implant behind the muscle is less painful, and takes less time for the implant to settle.
Thank you for your question about your breast implants.Because your implants are under the muscle, muscle activity will tend to make them move.Sometimes you can see it and feel it - sometimes not.But it is the effect of having an implant over an active muscle.Thee is nothing you have done wrong...
Thank you for your question about your breast implants.Your description suggests that you may have a capsular contracture.Or you may have mastitis or some other post-partum breast issue.First have your OB check you to be sure the breast itself is fine.If it is, your surgeon is likely to...
Thank you for your question about your breast implants.A 'gummy bear' implant is a kind of silicone implantIt is highly cohesive - which means the silicone gel is very thick and does not change its shape.It is used in formed (tear drop) implants which are expensive.The other silicone gel...
It takes an exam to determine implant size for a specific patient. However, over the years I have found my patients your size generally get a C or a small D look from implants in the 250-300 cc range. Moderate plus Sientra is a good shape generally and more natural than the hi profiles.
Hard bumps deep in the tissue around the bottom of the areola after a perioareolar breast augmentation is very common and usually represents wound healing from the perioareolar incision.Many aesthetic plastic surgeons, myself included, put several layers of sutures in the tissue when closing the...
Thank you for the question and picture. I think that you are starting at a good place and should have a very nice outcome with breast augmentation surgery. Based on the single photograph, I do not think that breast lifting is necessary; for more definitive advice you may wish to submit ...