Breast  Surgery Procedures

Among  the  most frequently  performed  procedures in Cosmetic  Plastic  Surgery,  Implant  Breast  Enlargement or  Augmentation  Mammaplasty  requires  careful  pre-op consideration  and  decision  making.   This  process  begins       with  a thorough Consultation,  concentrating  on  the  history  of any previous breast process, including pregnancies,         breast- feeding, breast surgeries, and any family history of breast disease or breast cancer.  Mammography is also an    important consideration for  prospective  candidates over age 40,  in accordance  with the  guidelines of  the  American   Cancer Society and the American College of Surgeons.  Careful physical examination is also very important since          physical  characteristics of the  individual's breasts, such as shape, size, volume, symmetry, skin character and support, inframammary fold and nipple position have a great bearing on the achievable  result.    Also, chest wall size, shape,      and symmetry,  and patient height  and weight  have a significant impact  on the achievable result  as  well.  Since breast   augmentation is  a  completely  discretional,  elective  cosmetic  surgery  procedure,  there  is  a  special burden to avoid  any  intervention  that   may   impair   future breast exam or diagnostic testing, including mammography.  For  this reason,  I prefer  submuscular  placement of  breast implants,  which fortunately has no  negative  impact  on breast  self-exam,     and using  proper  Eklund  breast implant displacement  technique, little if any  impact  on Mammography quality.    Patients   with  very  small  breasts may actually be able to  obtain  better  mammography  after augmentation,  since the  implants have lifted the breast  tissue and  pectoral  muscles  away  from  the  chest wall,  allowing better  positioning of    the breasts  on the mammogram machine.   Important details concerning the decision-making process  leading up  to     breast augmentation  are  presented on the following linked pages,  along   with  many before and after   photos  and       pictures  of   representative  patients. 

Breast Augmentation/Lift/Revision Data Sheet     

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