Breast augmentation
| Breast augmentation | |
|---|---|
The pre-operative aspects (left), and the post-operative aspects (right) of a bilateral, sub-muscular emplacement of 350 cc saline implants through an infra-mammary fold (IMF) incision | |
| Specialty | Plastic surgeon |
In medicine, breast augmentation or augmentation mammoplasty is a cosmetic surgery procedure that uses either a breast implant or a fat-graft to realise a mammoplasty to increase the size, change the shape, or alter the texture of the breasts, either as a cosmetic procedure or as correction of congenital defects of the breasts and the chest wall.[1][2]
To augment the breast hemisphere, a breast implant filled with either saline solution or a silicone gel creates a spherical augmentation. The fat-graft transfer augments the size and corrects contour defects of the breast hemisphere with grafts of the adipocyte fat tissue, drawn from the body of the woman. In a breast reconstruction procedure, a tissue expander (a temporary breast implant device) is emplaced and filled with saline solution to shape and enlarge the implant pocket to receive and accommodate the breast-implant prosthesis.
In most instances of fat-graft breast augmentation, the increase is of modest volume, usually only one bra cup size or less,[3] which is thought to be the physiological limit allowed by the metabolism of the human body.[4]
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