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A breast implant is a prosthesis used to change the size, shape, and contour of a person's breast.In reconstructive plastic surgery, breast implants can be placed to restore a natural looking breast following a mastectomy, to correct congenital defects and deformities of the chest wall or, cosmetically, to enlarge the appearance of the breast through breast augmentation surgery.
A person with breast implants is usually able to breastfeed an infant; yet implants can cause functional breastfeeding difficulties, especially with mammoplasty procedures that involve cutting around the areola, and implant placement directly beneath the breast, which tend to cause greater breast-feeding difficulties.
One way to prevent symmastia is by using appropriate implant placement techniques. According to the book "Breast Augmentation" by William P. Adams Jr., et al., submuscular implant placement can help prevent symmastia. This technique involves placing the implant under the chest muscle, which provides additional support and coverage for the implant.
A trans-umbilical breast augmentation is a breast prosthesis insertion technique wherein the incision is at the umbilicus (navel), which dissection then tunnels superiorly, to facilitate emplacing the breast prosthesis to the implant pocket without producing visible surgical scars upon the breast hemisphere; but it makes appropriate dissection and device-emplacement more technically difficult.
Megan Fox is all about keeping it real when it comes to the work she's had done on her body. The 37-year-old actress recently went all-in during an interview on the Call Her Daddy With Alex Cooper ...
The technical and procedural efficacy of the B-technique mastopexy was established in Clinical Techniques: B Mastopexy: Versatility and 5-Year Experience (2007), a retrospective study of a 40-woman mammoplasty cohort upon whom were performed 13 breast-lift procedures without breast augmentation, and 27 procedures with simultaneous breast ...
I am going to have a [breast implant] consultation soon,” Khloé, 38, revealed while getting ready for an event during a new episode of The Kardashians on Thursday, October 27.
But the now 45-year-old model is revealing the consequences of breast implants. Many people are not aware of these scary impacts. 7 years after getting surgery, McDougal began getting sick for ...