Truths About Breast Enhancement Surgery

Breast enhancement surgery is something that has grown more and more popular over the last few decades. It is a rapidly growing area of cosmetic plastic surgery and includes several breast surgery procedures. Cosmetic breast procedures include breast augmentation, which is accomplished with breast implants. Breast augmentation is performed for a number of reasons varying from patient to patient, some cosmetic and some medical. Not only is plastic surgery scary because of the thought of scalpels and scars but also because of the price-tag. Plastic surgery for breast augmentation can cost upwards of twenty five hundred dollars if not closer to ten thousand.

Breast enhancement surgical procedure cosmetically enhances the size and shape of a woman's breast using implants. The breast implants used are either a silicone rubber shell filled with either medical grade silicone gel or a salt-water solution known as saline. Depending on your physician and the method of surgery that has been chosen, your breast augmentation procedure can be performed as an inpatient or as an outpatient. In general, breast augmentation is performed on an outpatient basis in a hospital operating room, surgery center or surgical suite in a surgeon's office. Breast lift is a procedure that is often performed simultaneously with an augmentation. In addition to these purely cosmetic procedures, breast reduction is an enhancement surgery that potentially offers both health and cosmetic benefits.

Breast implant recovery is not a simple process. During the first 24 to 48 hours after breast augmentation surgery, recovery is uncomfortable for most patients. In most cases, the breasts that you see immediately after breast implant surgery are not indicative of the final results. It is not until after six to eight weeks of breast implant recovery that the breasts finally take a shape of their own. Recovery continues until each individual feels comfortable with her new breasts.