Breast Augmentation Surgery

0:00:03.200 --> 00:00:06.960 A breast augmentation is a procedure to 00:00:06.990 --> 00:00:10.500 enhance the size of your breast and improve the shape of your breast. 00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:12.660 There's basically two different ways of doing it. 00:00:12.690 --> 00:00:15.280 You can use a breast implant, which is one 00:00:15.300 --> 00:00:18.600 of the more common ways, or one of the newer ways that we do breast 00:00:18.630 --> 00:00:24.140 augmentation now is to use your own fat and to enhance your breast size and shape 00:00:24.170 --> 00:00:27.700 with liposuction fat that's grafted from another part of your body. 00:00:27.730 --> 00:00:32.740 A breast augmentation, or a boob job that some people call, is to restore the shape 00:00:32.770 --> 00:00:36.140 of your breast, enhance the volume of your breast. 00:00:36.170 --> 00:00:38.720 In some patients, that's done when you've 00:00:38.750 --> 00:00:41.780 lost volume, either after weight loss or pregnancy. 00:00:41.800 --> 00:00:43.760 In other patients, it's because they were 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:46.500 never satisfied with the size of their breasts to begin with. 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.980 And those are the patients that are really good candidates for breast augmentation. 00:00:50.010 --> 00:00:54.120 There are different kinds of breast implants that we can use: there's saline 00:00:54.150 --> 00:00:57.180 breast implants, which are filled with saline, or water, 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.500 and then there's silicone breast implants, which are filled with a silicone gel. 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:02.520 You can also choose not to have a breast 00:01:02.550 --> 00:01:05.850 implant at all and to use your body's own natural fat. 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:07.660 The differences between saline and 00:01:07.690 --> 00:01:11.520 silicone are going to be in the way they feel and the way they look, and some 00:01:11.550 --> 00:01:14.050 patients are really good candidates for either. 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:18.040 Some patients would be better off if we used one or the other, and we go through 00:01:18.070 --> 00:01:22.360 all of those choices when you come in for a consultation to figure out what is 00:01:22.390 --> 00:01:25.290 really the approach that we should use for you. 00:01:25.320 --> 00:01:26.980 When you're choosing a breast augmentation 00:01:27.010 --> 00:01:30.850 surgeon, it's really important that you find someone that has a common vision 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:34.260 in terms of the esthetic that you're looking for. 00:01:34.290 --> 00:01:38.740 There's a lot of different approaches to doing breast augmentation. 00:01:38.770 --> 00:01:43.460 Specifically, we use a more natural approach, a more natural esthetic. 00:01:43.490 --> 00:01:46.240 It's very important that your goals and 00:01:46.270 --> 00:01:49.060 the surgeon's goals are in line with each other. 00:01:49.090 --> 00:01:53.660 A typical breast augmentation takes about two hours, two and a half hours. 00:01:53.690 --> 00:01:56.420 Basically, it's about a half a day of your time. 00:01:56.450 --> 00:02:00.260 You go home the same day, you're feeling fine the very next day. 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:02.100 You'll have some soreness in your chest. 00:02:02.130 --> 00:02:05.900 Most people can go back to work after a few days or a week, 00:02:05.930 --> 00:02:09.680 and we require that you avoid any strenuous physical activity or exercise 00:02:09.710 --> 00:02:13.100 for a couple of weeks, but you'll be feeling fine after a few days. 00:02:13.130 --> 00:02:19.220 In our practice, we like to use 3D virtual imaging, and virtual 00:02:19.250 --> 00:02:25.220 surgical software to give you a virtual 3D preoperative assessment of 00:02:25.250 --> 00:02:29.780 what you're going to look like after the breast augmentation surgery. 00:02:29.810 --> 00:02:35.000 That's one of the most advanced tools that we can use to really figure out what you 00:02:35.030 --> 00:02:40.360 like and get your vision in line with our vision so that we know what your 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.720 expectations are, and how to achieve the best result.