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How to Enhance Your Breast Augmentation Results

Breast augmentation remains one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries in the U.S., with high patient satisfaction and safety ratings. It’s also highly customizable, with various implant types, shapes, sizes, and placement techniques.

How can you make the right choices to get optimal results? And what can you do after your surgery to enhance your breast augmentation benefits?

Choose Your Plastic Surgeon Carefully

It takes an artistic and experienced surgeon with top-notch good communication skills to help guide you in making the right decisions that deliver the best results. Choose a board-certified plastic surgeon with vast experience in breast surgery. Review before-and-after pictures on the surgeon’s website or in their office to learn if they can tailor the operation to your unique body type.

Make Good Use of Your Consultation

Your in-person consultation appointment is your opportunity to explain your goals and bring up any specific concerns you have. For instance, if you lead an active lifestyle, be sure to mention the importance of continuing your fitness regimen. If you hope to have children, don’t forget to ask about your ability to breastfeed after your surgery.

Listen carefully to what Dr. de la Pedraja tells you – including his suggestions concerning implant type, size, and placement – based on your unique body and cosmetic goals.

Choose the Right Implants

There’s no such thing as a single best implant for all women. Your ideal breast implants will depend on your natural breasts’ size and shape, your body type, and your lifestyle, to name a few.

Learn more about all your options by researching them. Then, use your breast augmentation consultation to fully understand the impact of different choices. For example, would silicone or saline implants work better for you? What about placing the implants in front or behind the chest muscles? What shape and size of implant will give you the best look?

Ask if you can visualize the change using 3D imaging with different implant sizes so you can preview what to expect. Your goal is to get all three elements right — the size, the shape, the firmness.

Consider Combining Your Breast Augmentation With a Lift

If your breasts sag, a breast augmentation alone is not likely to correct the problem. However, combining a breast lift with implants could give you the desired result. If breast sagging, drooping, and a deflated appearance concerns you, ask about pairing these two procedures during your consultation.

Take Good Care of Yourself in Recovery

You’ll play a critical role in improving your breast augmentation outcome by following post-operative instructions and taking care of yourself in recovery.

Dr. de la Pedraja will give you specific instructions following your surgery, including what activities to avoid in the first few days, keeping the incisions clean to prevent infection, and how to help your breasts heal to their new form. In addition, Dr. de la Pedraja will probably instruct you to wear a surgical bra to minimize swelling and bruising and sleep and rest on your back until your breasts have fully healed. Eating healthy foods and getting proper rest will promote recovery and help ensure the best results.

Follow these instructions, and don’t push yourself during your post-surgical downtime. Be patient as you heal. It will take time for swelling to abate and your implants to drop and settle into their final form.

Find Out More About Breast Augmentation in Coral Gables

Contact us today to schedule a consultation and determine whether breast augmentation is for you. Then, we’ll answer your questions and explain your options. Dr. de la Pedraja offers plastic surgery procedures in Coral Gables near Miami. Learn more by calling (305) 441-9144 or contacting us onlinetoday.