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Breast augmentation surgery, implant types and generalities

Breast augmentation surgery, implant types and generalities

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Created by: Top Doctors editorial
Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 18/03/2019

Surgery may last for 1 to 2 hours, approximately, it is carried out in a hospital operating room and anesthesia can be local, general or subdural block.

Dr. Jorge Ernesto Herrera Echeagaray

breast operation Breast augmentation surgery is a procedure performed to improve the appearance of breasts, through the placement of breast implants in the breast area.

There are several types of breast implants according to their content may be saline and cohesive gel silicone, as to how there are 2 types of breast implants, round teardrop or anatomical, there are various measures of implants cubic centimeters or grams, each doctor determined based on the measurements and complexion of each patient, it will suggest any size in order to your complete satisfaction in the results.

Advantages and disadvantages of the different types of breast implant

There are 2 types of implants. The advantages of saline is that, as its name implies, to be filled with this solution, if you do have a break, the liquid will not cause any problems in the body.

The advantage of implants cohesive silicone gel, above all, is its consistency is more natural than saline, but its main disadvantage is that, if it be some break, there may be risk of a reaction of the body.

Process surgery breast augmentation

This surgery can last from 1 to about 2 hours, it should be noted that is performed in a hospital operating room, anesthesia used can be of various types, the choice will be according to each doctor, the most used are local anesthesia , intravenous sedation, general anesthesia or subdural blockade.

complications

As with any surgery there are risks of complications, in this case the main risk is infection, followed by another complication that is also quite common (3%): capsular contracture, which is that inside the body it forms a capsule becomes hard and then a deformity in the affected breast of the patient, who will become hard and be located above the implant note.