How Safe Are Breast Implants Inserted Through the Belly Button?

The TUBA technique of placing a saline implant through the belly button incision is both safe and my most popular procedure for placing saline implants. The advantages are no scars on the breast, only one small incision, and in my experience a faster recovery and less bruising. In the more than a decade that I have been performing this procedure I have not seen more complications than other techniques.

I would pass on this technique and I am a surgeon who feels very comfortable going thru the underarm and using the endoscope! Too many negatives and not enough positives. I'm not sure that it invalidates the warranty any longer., although I know it used to. And it's even a worse idea when done blindly without the endoscope. I have seen too many "one above and one below" results! Too many advantages with other methods..

Even in the age where surgeons invent procedures to try to differentiate themselves from one another, almost no one is doing TUBA procedures. That should tell you that the approach has significant flaws.

Placement of implants:
1. Tuba
2. Transaxillary
3. Periareola
4. inframammary
all techniques are equally safe.  Healing should be the same. Discomfort , outcome of shape, contours. Potential complications.. only saline implants can be placed  through the belly button.
Excellent choice for a young patient who doesn t want any scars on the breasts and can’t afford a  silicone implant

TUBA or transumbilical breast augmentation were very popular with saline implants because the implants can be filled in the pocket.  You can;t do that with silicone implants. I was never a big fan, because pocket dissection is done blindly and bluntly and if you got bleeding you had to convert to a more traditional approach.