I am getting silicone breast implants on Friday and am really scared of going too big. I am currently a "B"; I want to be a "C". I have chosen 350cc in hopes they will look like the 300-325 implant I tried at my doctor's office.
July 10, 2016
Answer: How many cc's do you lose by putting the implant behind the muscle? Great question - and it certainly is relevant in my practice since I have women try on implants within a bra. I use the number 25 cc as a rough estimate as to how many cc's you lose in appearance between an implant on top of the skin versus under the muscle. Best of luck!
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July 10, 2016
Answer: How many cc's do you lose by putting the implant behind the muscle? Great question - and it certainly is relevant in my practice since I have women try on implants within a bra. I use the number 25 cc as a rough estimate as to how many cc's you lose in appearance between an implant on top of the skin versus under the muscle. Best of luck!
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March 31, 2016
Answer: Will you lose 50 cc's behind the muscle? There is no exact science to how many cc's you will "lose" once the implant is behind the muscle. Typically, I advise my patients that if they like the look of the implants we try on, we should consider one size larger to get the look of the smaller implant. The good news is that if you aren't completely satisfied with the 350cc implants, doing an implant exchange is a relatively simple surgery. Good luck!
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March 31, 2016
Answer: Will you lose 50 cc's behind the muscle? There is no exact science to how many cc's you will "lose" once the implant is behind the muscle. Typically, I advise my patients that if they like the look of the implants we try on, we should consider one size larger to get the look of the smaller implant. The good news is that if you aren't completely satisfied with the 350cc implants, doing an implant exchange is a relatively simple surgery. Good luck!
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January 2, 2016
Answer: Implant size over vs under muscle In general, it seems that external silicone implant sizers are the best way to for my patients to get an idea of what an augmentation with achieve for them. That said, they do seem to appear somewhat larger in a bra than when they are placed in the patient; even more so the deeper they are placed (i.e., sub muscular may seem smaller vs sub glandular. This is probably due to implant definition being less with deeper placement. For this reason, if patents are trying to decide between two sizes, I generally encourage them to choose the larger of the two sizes as implants may appear smaller than sizers.
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January 2, 2016
Answer: Implant size over vs under muscle In general, it seems that external silicone implant sizers are the best way to for my patients to get an idea of what an augmentation with achieve for them. That said, they do seem to appear somewhat larger in a bra than when they are placed in the patient; even more so the deeper they are placed (i.e., sub muscular may seem smaller vs sub glandular. This is probably due to implant definition being less with deeper placement. For this reason, if patents are trying to decide between two sizes, I generally encourage them to choose the larger of the two sizes as implants may appear smaller than sizers.
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