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1 1/2 -ish Year Update, Including Weight Gain

Hello my beautiful ladies! It has been nearly a year and a half since my BA, and I have never regretted a single moment. The girls are doing well and are looking incredible.
I thought it might be a good idea to post my experience (and photos in a couple of days) of my implants and how they look with significant weight gain. Being in a PhD program has been kicking my butt, and a lot of stress has come with it. I have gained about 40 pounds since my BA. While the rest of my body looks quite fluffy and not exactly up to my own standards, my breasts have done exceptionally well. I have gone up to a 36DDD, however they still look natural and beautiful. I was concerned about any potential weight gain, yet no concerns now. I am presently in the process of dropping the pounds, and will update when I can so as to show the results of how my breasts change with my body. I am pleased that my breasts did not become awkwardly shaped, and that there have been no abnormalities in my breasts given the dramatic weight gain.

7 1/2 Month Update! Drop and Fluff, Numbness, and Scarring

Hello ladies! It's been quite some time since the last time I've updated! So sorry to have kept some of you waiting!!! Well, Marilyn and Angelina have settled in very very well! I don't even feel the implants themselves anymore. It's weird not being able to sense that they're there...the human body is quite an amazing thing! 7 1/2 months has flown by. I have been loving buying new clothes, bra shopping, and feel more comfortable seeing myself nude. And, despite my 10 pound weight gain due to the lovely holidays, I'm surprisingly not disgusted with myself (I have pretty poor self-esteem to begin with), rather, I see that I still look pretty proportionate, lacking a pear shape and having an hour glass shape, and I'm pretty okay with that. I still want to drop some pounds but I'm not as hard on my self as I used to be. :)

Scarring...
Oh the scarring...ew. So scarring is no fun. Apparently lately over the past year and a half, my body has decided to no longer heal normally, and close up wounds with a small barely visible scar. Now, it's almost as though my body wants to show off any and all battle wounds! Keloids. Ugh. Gross. Ugly. Ugh. Even if it's a minor scratch from my cat. Oy vey. I was crossing my fingers and hoping that my body would decide that keloids had no place on my lovely boobies. Nope. Wrong. It looks awful, but at least the scarring is at the crease. I have been really bad at putting the scar cream on the incision site, so it's likely that if I had been consistent with the cream, I would not have such crazy scarring. I think I'll start it up again. I don't like the scarring, but I know that it will go away in about a year. My weird keloid-ing body un-keloids after several months (odd, I know). Here's hoping that they will be much less visible in the near future!

Numbness...
So I've been having a wee bit of difficulty with my patience. The lower third of my breasts are still relatively numb, however slllooowwwllllyyyy day by day, week by week, the numbing is lessening. I haven't had any numbing issues with my nipples thank goodness. I was aware pre-surgery that there would likely be some nerve damage and that the body sometimes needs a great deal of time to repair/replace the damaged nerves. I was just hoping that I would have healed faster, but oh, well. Interestingly, at times I have some minor short bursts of aches and pains in the areas where I am numb, and with time, those areas gain more feeling and no longer have the aches and pains...apparently that's part of the healing process. Every time I get the ache or pain, I get excited because I know that means I'm getting more feeling back in my breasts! Hopefully we will reach 100% feeling! But I'm still impatient. It's annoying, to be honest. Speaking of which, I'm having some dull pain in my left breast as I type...hello new nerves!

Jiggle! Squish!
They jiggle! And they wiggle! And they bounce! So much fun! And the squishy! So squishy! I did not expect them to look and feel so real! Granted, they are a wee bit firmer than a natural breast, however they are surprisingly natural-feeling! Yay!

11 Weeks 4 Days Post-Op! So Much Has Happened!

So much has happened since my last update, I can't believe it. I ran into a couple of obstacles but everything is great now. I'll put up another post later on today with my progress but for now I just wanted to add an updated picture as of last week :) I've had quite a few compliments on my breasts (I'm not afraid to disclose that I had an augmentation)!

Provider Review

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
23365 Hawthorne Blvd. , Torrance, California
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I went in for a breast augmentation with Dr. Petti. I had a wonderful experience during the consultation, procedure, and follow-up appointments. The office is serene and comfortable, and the staff are warm and friendly. I feel safe and unusually comfortable in front of those who have needed to see my bare breasts for both photos and examination. I have always felt very uneasy even at the prospect of strangers seeing my bare breasts, but the politeness and professionalism of everyone in the office has made the experience considerably less anxiety-provoking. Dr. Petti explains everything in complete detail, and answers every single question I have, even before I ask them. She is very informative and provided me with suggestions pertaining to implant size, shape, etc. I was with Dr. Petti herself for nearly an hour discussing everything there was to discuss during the initial consult, and I felt no pressure to quickly end the visit. She was more than happy to go over every detail with me. I am so happy to have chosen her as my surgeon. The work she did is exceptional and I am very very pleased with the way my breasts look, and I'm only 3 weeks post-op! She is very one-on-one with her patients and makes the time to answer any and all questions. Dr. Petti schedules many follow-up appointments to make sure all is healing correctly, and she is very explicit and clear in all pre-op and post-op instructions. She does not rush, but takes her time to create her masterpieces. I feel like a beautiful work of art! She made me feel like a woman, and for that I am truly thankful. I have the curves I've always wanted. I highly recommend her and her incredible staff.