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In the Months After Breast Augmentation

Your body will go through many changes during the months after you get breast implants surgery. Most of these changes will be very subtle.

You will continue to feel those phantom pains, tingles, and warm sensations in your breasts. Remember, you have a foreign body in you and your tissue is still getting used to the added volume. Your body is forming a network of collagen around the implant to wall off this foreign object from the rest of your body. These feelings are very natural after breast augmentation.

Some surgeons want to see you again at the 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, and 6-month mark after breast augmentation surgery. Some recommend you come in at the 1-month, 4-month, and 6-month mark. Some suggest the 6-month or 1-year mark, and some, never again..

Within the first year after breast augmentation, many patients, including myself, have noted that they lost natural breast tissue. This is thought to be due to the pressure of the implant. Take note of the amount of breast tissue after you are healed and then again a year after your surgery. This loss of natural breast tissue does not always occur after breast implants, although it is possible. Just because one or two surgeons don't believe this to be the case, doesn't mean it isn't so. Just know beforehand and accept it and you won't have any unpleasant surprises.

Also if your implants have never fully dropped, you may need additional surgery. If you have textured implants they may not drop any further after the 6-month mark. Your scars may have stretched due to poor elasticity, increased pressure on the incision line, or your areolae are stretched. In these cases, or if you are otherwise unhappy with your outcome, you may consider a breast augmentation revision surgery.