Today’s topic is about how a breast implant changes the shape of your breast. It may sound like a really obvious thing, but the way that an implant can change the shape of a breast over time is not so obvious.
Here at Tim’s rooms we routinely take a series of about 60 measurements on your breast before surgery and three months after the procedure. By comparing these measurements statistically we have learnt a few things.
The implant acts mainly by stretching out the tissue that lies between your nipple and the crease under your breast. From the front this gives the appearance of the nipple being placed more in the centre of the breast – so it looks like the breast has lifted. This is an optical illusion, because if you measure to see if the height of the nipple has changed relative to the notch between your collar bones, it hasn’t! In fact this distance changes very little at all over time, implying that the weight of the implant doesn’t make breasts droop.
Changing your weight drastically will however alter how your implants look after surgery, particularly if you are quite lean to start with. If you are planning to loose (or put on) weight, it is therefore a good idea that you do this before your implant surgery. This is the reason that Mr Brown likes to review potential patients if he hasn’t seen them for three months since their initial consult, just to re-check the measurements.
We hope that you have found todays topic interesting. As always please get in touch if you want more information.
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