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Breast Augmentation
What anesthesia should I use for breast augmentation?
Anesthesia can be performed in a number of ways and in combinations. Most plastic surgeons will perform the procedure under general anesthesia. This allows for maximum protection of your airway and provides maximum comfort of the patient allowing your surgeon to shape things perfectly. In our Bay Area practice we typically do this procedure with general anesthesia but augment it with local anesthesia including pain pumps when appropriate. This allows our patients to safely have the procedure performed with the maximum comfort during and after the operation.
Clinical Context
General anesthesia keeps you fully asleep and comfortable while your surgeon shapes the implant pocket precisely, and it relaxes the chest muscles, which helps when the implant sits partly beneath them. Adding numbing medicine to the tissue before you wake up helps control pain early, and long-acting local anesthetics or a pain pump can keep you comfortable for the first day or two, often reducing how much prescription pain medication you need afterward.
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