A Lightning Fast Guide To Breast Surgery Plastic Surgery Operations

Unless you live on Mars, you can’t have escaped the media attention given to breast surgery cosmetic procedures these days. Breast surgery is one of the most chosen plastic surgeries worldwide, and is currently in the list of top five most performed operations in both America and Britain. When you read or hear about it, you will hear a lot of different terms used – if you ever felt you were not sure what they meant, this article could help make it all clear.

This article gives you an explanation of which operations the terms breast ‘augmentation’, ‘reduction’ and ‘uplifting’ refer to, why women might choose to have them done and general principles of how they are performed. This can help give you a fuller picture of why someone you know might be choosing to have one of these operations, or whether you yourself might want to look into them further.

Breast augmentation surgeries are for women, and quite simply aim to make the breasts bigger. The operation is sometimes used to bring symmetry to very uneven breasts and always increases the general size. The procedure uses silicone or saline implants depending on where you live. In the USA, saline is favoured, whereas in the UK silicone is used more. This operation is the classic ‘boob job’ so beloved in the tabloids, but it isn’t the only type of surgery, in fact in real life, many women opt for an entirely opposite procedure.

Breast reduction surgery generally means an operation where the surgeon cuts away some breast tissue and breast skin before closing the wounds with sutures. Women who go for this type of surgery tend to be those who have breasts on the larger end of the scale, which may individually weigh quite an amount, causing everyday discomfort. Breasts may hurt when doing sports or even everyday activities, bras may never feel comfortable and the woman may feel very unpleasantly self-conscious due to simply her shape. As well as operations targeting breast sizes, there is a third popular procedure which moves existing breast tissues up the chest outline.

Breast uplifting surgery does seek to make breasts bigger or smaller, but instead aims to make a sagging cleavage firmer. The operation frequently uses an incision to allow for unwanted loose skin to be cut away and the nipple to be repositioned in a higher place. Typical candidates for this operation are women whose shape has changed due to a lot of slimming down of their figure, or after having had children. The aim is quite simply to make everything simply move up the chest.

There are all manner of promotional activities in the media these days for clinics selling these operations to the public. But the one fact remains, no matter how good their PR, these are all serious, full scale operations not to be taken lightly, with attendant risks. This brief overview should have given you the understanding of the different types available to women patients, a little of the procedures and common factors why patients chose each individual one. This can help you relate better to anyone you know who is having one or considering it, or even help you decide whether you wanted to look more closely into having an operation yourself.

RS Brown blogs obsessively on the things people try to feel younger and fitter, including breast plastic surgery. She writes as part of a team, not only for women but also presenting facts and info on male breast reduction surgery.