What Makes Successful Breast Augmentation On Your Body?

Perfection or change to a different breast is never an option. Improvement in the existing breast is the only realistic alternative. When looking at pictures, look for breasts that look like your breasts before surgery. Perfection or change to a different breast is never an option. Improvement in the existing breast is the only realistic alternative. When looking at pictures, look for breasts that look like your breasts before surgery.

Pictures best illustrate some of the most important principles in augmentation. Pictures can also be misleading and confusing. What you see depends on what you know. The more you know, the more thoroughly and systematically you can evaluate pictures. Many of the terms and concepts used in this chapter have been explained in earlier chapters, so this chapter will be most meaningful and useful if you have read the previous chapters.

The focus on augmentation is important for every patient, and to know the determining two factors. What the woman wants, and What the woman's body (her tissues) will allow her to have.

As you look at any pictures of augmentation results, remember. This woman's breasts are unique in shape and appearance, different from any other woman's. This woman's tissues are different from any other woman's. This woman's wishes are different from any other woman's.

It's impossible to look at a catalog of breast pictures and pick out what you'd like to have, unless your breasts are exactly the same as the woman's in the picture before surgery and they are never the same. Remember, the three most critically important factors in determining optimal implant size can never be accurately assessed in any two dimensional picture (without special equipment for scaling.The base width of the breast, the amount of stretch, and the amount of existing breast tissue. It's also impossible to know exactly what the woman in the picture requested. What she wanted might be very different from what you want. And, most importantly, the characteristics of her breast tissues are not exactly like yours.

We have chosen each set of images to make a point. Each breast is not the most beautiful breast or the most perfect breast. Any experienced surgeon can select a large number of best results, but if education is the goal, you need to see a full range of breast types, results, and common problems. As you study the lessons, focus on the message of each image. Don't necessarily ask yourself whether you particularly like the breast. Remember, what you see in a before image is all the surgeon had to work with. Perfection or a change to a different breast is never an option. Improvement in the existing breast is the only realistic alternative.

Each woman's breasts have unique tissue characteristics. The skin envelope and breast tissue are different in every woman. A surgeon can work only with what the patient brings. Ideal choices are different for each woman, depending on her wishes and her tissues.

This important principle is illustrated by the following before and after case studies. Compare each case to the other cases. Focus on the substantial differences among patients' tissues before augmentation and how those differences affected the results. Concentrate on the two major components of the breast: the skin envelope and the breast tissue that fills the skin envelope. For each different combination of skin envelope and breast tissue, we will emphasize principles that affect the choices of implant and technique in each different type of breast.

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Sun, 22 Feb 2009 at 7:10 PM, by Denise
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