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Moderate Versus Larger Diameter High Profile?
In our Bay area practice we perform many breast augmentations and picking the right size implant is one of the most critical parts of the surgery. Numbers and measurements are helpful and serve as a basis for choosing the right implant but getting the right projection, shape and fullness requires more than what just numbers can provide. In our practice, in addition to the measurements, we ask patients to bring in pictures of breasts they like and dislike. We bring those pictures with us to the operating room. We then use sizers, which are temporary breast implants that can be filled to different sizes, to get the size and shape implant that is closest to the desired look. This extra step is extremely useful in trying to match your goal with your surgical outcome.
Clinical Context
An implant's listed size describes the device, not the finished breast. The same implant can look different from patient to patient depending on breast width, the thickness and elasticity of the tissue covering it, and where the inframammary fold sits. Thicker tissue softens an implant's visible shape, while thin tissue reveals it more. Chest wall curvature and whether the implant sits under or over the muscle also affect how projection looks on the body compared with how it's measured on a flat surface before surgery.
