Three weeks post op with 500cc mentor silicone under the muscle. I thought this might be rippling and I went into my surgeon and was told it was normal and just the skin stretching. I’m beginning to notice it hurts, while the other implant is pain free, and the implant is a bit higher than the other implant. Have I developed capsular contracture early in my recovery? I don’t have money to do a revision surgery or change implants or anything like that so please do not suggest that.
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You have a very nice breast augmentation result which is typical for 8 days, so early in recovery. Understand that it will take 6-12 weeks for the implants to stretch your tissues and fall in place and after the implants have dropped the breast will look fuller especially under the nipple ...
Hello and thank you for your question. Honestly, a formal in-person evaluation would be needed to determine the best treatment. There are several reasons for this:
1) Bra sizes vary based on the clothing store (for example, Victoria's Secret tends to upsize everyone by a whole cup size)
2) Most...
Both implants are excellent implants. The memory gel xtra feels firmer than the regular silicone implants. Nicknames for these implants include gummy bear implants. I’ve been told that when men and women physicians and nonphysicians feel the different implants in a blind study, that most pe...