Silicone Gel Filled Breast Implants - FDA Approved
For some women, breast implants can improve their quality of life. Some breast cancer survivors believe that getting breast implants can be an important part of their recovery. However, other women find external breast forms to be satisfactory. Reconstruction options include breast implants or surgery using tissue from a patient's own abdomen, back, or buttocks to form a new breast. This surgery requires sufficient fat tissue and a longer operation, and like any other procedure, it is not always successful. For each woman, whether her goal is augmentation or reconstruction, the benefits may be different. With your plastic surgeon's advice, you must decide whether or not you wish to accept the possible risks in order to achieve the expected results.
Breast implant surgery presents the same general risks associated with anesthesia as any other surgery. After the surgery, there are other special risks related to silicone-filled breast implants.
Your Expectations
Your consideration of breast implants should be based on realistic expectations of the outcome. To help you get an idea of what results may be possible, request "before and after" pictures of patients who have had this surgery from your physician. Keep in mind, however, that there is no guarantee that your results will match those of other women. Your results will depend on many individual factors, such as your overall health, chest structure and body shape, healing capabilities (which may be hindered by radiation and chemotherapy, smoking, alcohol and various medications), bleeding tendencies, prior breast surgery(ies), infection, skill and experience of the surgical team, and the type of surgical procedure.
Click here to find a plastic surgeon or cosmetic surgeon in your area that uses saline breast implants or silicone breast implants for breast augmentation surgery. Contact these surgeons about the breast augmentation procedure, the prices and costs of the surgery, anesthesia, surgery center fees, breast augmentation financing, recovery time, view before and after breast augmentation photos and more.
