I've had my breast implants for over a year,but before surgery the doctor and I agreed on HP 475cc and after surgery I realized that they were not what we discussed as she put in moderate implants. When I emailed her, she said these ones fit better. Isn't that something she is suppose to figure out and discuss with the patient before surgery? Is this malpractice? Ive had other consults to fix this and have said I need HP and MP is too wide, & she made the right pocket too big so they are uneven.
June 8, 2016
Answer: Not malpractice as your agreed upon volume was used and your photos show decent results. HP implants would have provided you with more gap between the mounds and most people do not want this. Your consultants are suspect for saying your MP implant is to wide as your limited photos do not support that contention. If you're not happy with your results, you should see your surgeon and invoke the revision policy to help you achieve what you desire. Now if your surgeon documented that you were going to get HP implants, my opinion would change but most surgeons do not promise a profile.
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June 8, 2016
Answer: Not malpractice as your agreed upon volume was used and your photos show decent results. HP implants would have provided you with more gap between the mounds and most people do not want this. Your consultants are suspect for saying your MP implant is to wide as your limited photos do not support that contention. If you're not happy with your results, you should see your surgeon and invoke the revision policy to help you achieve what you desire. Now if your surgeon documented that you were going to get HP implants, my opinion would change but most surgeons do not promise a profile.
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Answer: Malpractice with wrong implants? What can I do? Yikes! Throwing around the word "malpractice" just makes me ill. You need to walk this back a bit. First of all, your chest looks good to me although it would take a frontal view and your pre-op photos to really judge your result. Second of all, many surgeons - myself included- go to the OR with several sizes and/or profiles of implants available for any given patient. Even very careful preoperative sizing cannot judge exactly how an implant will look once it is in the implant pocket. It depends a lot of the thickness and give of the pec muscle and breast tissue and skin. Sometimes the ribs are kind of wonky and can either increase or decrease the projection of a given implant. It's complicated. You just don't know until you get in there. I always use intraoperative sizers when doing breast augmentation. These temporary implants allow me to see how the breast expands and responds to the implant. I tell my patients that I will do my best to use the size and profile we discussed at the pre op visit but I reserve the right and responsibility to use the implant that fits the best. Implants are like shoes, they just have to fit and you don't know if they fit until you try them on.
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Answer: Malpractice with wrong implants? What can I do? Yikes! Throwing around the word "malpractice" just makes me ill. You need to walk this back a bit. First of all, your chest looks good to me although it would take a frontal view and your pre-op photos to really judge your result. Second of all, many surgeons - myself included- go to the OR with several sizes and/or profiles of implants available for any given patient. Even very careful preoperative sizing cannot judge exactly how an implant will look once it is in the implant pocket. It depends a lot of the thickness and give of the pec muscle and breast tissue and skin. Sometimes the ribs are kind of wonky and can either increase or decrease the projection of a given implant. It's complicated. You just don't know until you get in there. I always use intraoperative sizers when doing breast augmentation. These temporary implants allow me to see how the breast expands and responds to the implant. I tell my patients that I will do my best to use the size and profile we discussed at the pre op visit but I reserve the right and responsibility to use the implant that fits the best. Implants are like shoes, they just have to fit and you don't know if they fit until you try them on.
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