Seeking Bigger Boobs - Part 1

Seeking Bigger Boobs - Part 1

Scottsdale – Breast augmentation is the most popular plastic surgery procedure. What do you need to know when seeking bigger boobs?

First, there are more options for your breast augmentation than ever before. Second, you need to do more research to understand all the choices. Third, having a consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon, is one of the most important decision you can make.

What about breast implants? It turns out that there are numerous choices for breast implant shape, size and material. The two basic choices include saline-filled or silicone gel-filled breast implants.

Breast implants filled with saline are tried and true. They have been around a long time and can give you a successful result with your boob augmentation. Saline is the sterile salt water used commonly in every hospital. It is benign and will not harm your body. Saline breast implants, however, are not perfect. Saline breast implants in small-breasted women can lead to a cosmetic deficiency know as ripples. Rippling can occur with any type of implant but is far more common with saline filled implants.

Not the same breast implants your mother used to know? That’s right. The new silicone gel-filled breast implants are not the same the FDA banned in the past. Comparing the new FDA-approved implants to previous silicone breast implants is like comparing apples to oranges.

Clinical trials demonstrate the safety of the FDA-approved silicone gel-filled breast implants. There is no evidence that silicone causes autoimmune disease, cancer and other systemic problems. Silicone leakage is a problem, and the design of the new third-generation breast implants does a lot to minimize leakage.

First, the gel material is different. The new gels are cohesive not liquids. They act more like a solid rather than a liquid. The gel holds together uniformly, but has a natural feel that resembles actual breast tissue. Second, the outer shell that holds the silicone gel filler inside is thicker on the new FDA-approved breast implants. It is a three layered design that is durable, but feels very soft to the touch.

With the new technology is silicone leakage a thing of the past? Not exactly, but the six year follow up, on leakage, for Mentor’s MemoryGel is a low 1.1%.

In other words,  6 years after breast augmentation, only 1 out of 100 women with this type of silicone gel breast implant will have leakage of silicone. That’s very impressive. In fact, these fine results have never been replicated in the history of breasts augmentation and breast implants.

Breast augmentation is now safer and more effective than ever before. Besides the implant choices just discussed, there are many other important choices you need to make before choosing bigger boobs.

I will continue to discuss the other options about breast augmentation on the blog in the near future. For now, additional important information on breast augmentation and breast implants can be found at bellabreast.com