Breast Augmentation info

Can a woman breastfeeding with implants, after a breast augmentation surgery? Since when? Breastfeeding worsen the cosmetic outcome of the intervention?
Many women are frightened about the idea of breastfeeding their baby after had a breast enlargement surgery. The fear concerns about aesthetic appearance of the chest or the health of the baby.
Women with breast implants can breastfeed their babies safely. However implants can affect the ability of some women to breastfeed their babies. The location of the incision around the areola or in the middle of it, may impede breastfeeding because it can damage the milk ducts.
To avoid interfering with future breastfeeding, it is better to use submammary or armpit as a gateway for the operation. The periareolar surgical incision presents more risk about future breastfeeding. Other surgery operations such as breast reduction can eliminate or reduce the ability to breastfeed.

Do the breast implants can affect the baby?
There have been studies that indicate that women with breast implants, cohesive gel either silicone or saline, do not show increased amounts of silicone in breast milk than women without implants. Recall that the silicone is a derivative of silicon (a mineral). Is unlikely to cause problems because silicon is present in cow's milk and infant formula milk at a concentration higher than in milk from mothers with implants.

Breastfeeding will change the result of the intervention?
The breast will undergo changes during and after pregnancy. These changes may include increased and decreased in volume (atrophy) and stretch marks. But these changes can occur even if no-feeding a baby. According to a new study presented at a conference organized by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, breast-feeding were not connected with the fall of the chest.

If the woman has breast implants, breast can change with pregnancy, and these changes may call for additional surgery. Changes may occur regardless of whether the woman breastfed or not.

How much to wait for breastfeed after a breast enlargement surgery?
Although there is no specific waiting period, we believe it prudent to wait at least 10 months after breast augmentation surgery.

Breastfeeding can cause a capsular contracture?
With breastfeeding, some women suffer from mastitis (inflammation of the milk ducts). mastitis may cause capsular contracture. Taking antibiotics when symptoms first appear reduces the problem. You should always inform your doctor about any signs of inflammation. The mastistis can occur in pregnancy or breastfeeding are not to breastfeed. Possibly via areolar have associated an increased risk of mastitis and therefore of capsular contracture.
To minimize the risks in the short, medium and long term, is very important that the breast augmentation surgery is performed by a good plastic surgeon.

Voices against.
We also found opinions against feeding a baby after breast augmentation: "the mastitis that can occur during the breastfeeding leads to the removal of the prosthesis, it's a surgical disaster", says a spanish doctor. "Furthermore, when you put an implant through areola incision you can break breast ducts, and this deterioration can more easily cause the retention of milk and mastitis".

Breast augmentation without surgical scalpel is the desire of all women who are afraid to face a breast surgery or just do not want to use the tools of a surgeon. Leave aside for the moment the exercises for toning, shaping and lifting the breasts, they exist and are useful, or creams that give force and seek to increase the volume of the breast. At the moment the most common breast augmentation procedure without the help of surgical scalpel is to use hyaluronic acid. This is a substance that exist inside the skin, it more makes more elastic our tissue, when we have a lack of hyaluronic acid our body starts to form wrinkles and sagging skin. Hyaluronic acid also stimulates collagen production and fight aging. Usually it has used in cosmetic surgery for the famous "surgery tweaks" for filling skin depressions that have emptied, for example lips, eyes, etc.. In our case hyaluronic acid is used for a breast augmentation, injected into the breast to fill and increase the volume. Macrolane is one of the commercial name for hyaluronic acid ,it is used precisely in cosmetic surgery breast,facial or buttocks. Needless incisions, should not be implanted breast implants, simply what the surgeon does with a syringe is inject hyaluronic acid inside the breast. There are no specific contraindications, is all nice and easy that way, but the fact is that breast augmentation is temporary, Macrolane indicates an effect duration of 12-24 months, could also probably last 18 months, hardly more than 1 year and half, so if you want to increase the breast for ever you have to regularly do the injections. Another drawback concerns the size. With Macrolene you can increase your breast size only of a measure (for example from 32 breast size to 34), not more. Cost? Calculated that a 20cc macrolane vial costs about 200 dollars and for one size breast augmentation more you need 100cc, you will spend 2000 dollars for both breasts. Add the "job" of the surgeon and you spend almost 2500 dollars, far less of a classical breast augmentation surgery.

This is nothing new. Many women have learned that going abroad for breast augmentation operation is convenient, and also it's easy if you know for example some spanish words. Yes, because if you live close to the south border you can try to go in the center part of America. Anyway, let's go ahead. Health tourism has become a reality all over the world. To save money people nowadays facing long trip true neighbors or even challenging time zones. Aesthetic interventions such as breast augmentation are hardly covered by insurance or national health service (Only in case of breast reconstruction due to cancer) so people go abroad. We made a screening of breast augmentation costs abroad, in every part of the world through web Internet plastic surgeon site, sometimes they didn't answer at our mail request so we called them by phone. Let's go starting from Usa.
The costs vary from state to state but we noticed lower prices in border town or border state. For example we found a doctor in Tucson (Arizona) for 3200 dollars and in Tulsa (Oklahoma) for 3700. Not bad.We continued finding 3900 dollars for a breast augmentation in South Lake Tahoe (California) and 5800 dollars for a silicone cohesive gel breast implants in Houston (Texas). Sometimes the price depends on what type of breast implant is used. The silicone one, for example silicone high profiles, cost a bit more than the saline. In New York a breast augmentation costs 7000$ and the most espansive city was, obviously, Beverly Hills with 9000 dollars. Canada has the same prices:6200 canadian dollars in Toronto and in Australia we found a breast plastic surgeon for $9100 australian Dollars.
If you live near the south border you can go easily in Mexico, it's worthwhile going for example to Tijuana, 2100 dollars for a breast enlargement; we didn't ask if with silicone or saline implants. In San Jose Costarica we found it for 3000$ but we took our record with 1900 us dollars in Ecuador! Another country famous for breast augmentation surgery is Brazil, in Sao Paulo we found a specialized plastic surgeon for 2500 dollars.
Anyway the most expensive doesn’t mean the best and the cheapest doesn’t mean the worst; it all depends on the surgeon and depends also on the quality of breast implants. In Mexico for example there are good plastic surgeon and good medical facilities but you have to calculate
the cost of the trip (even those for post-op checks) and of the hotel for you and for your companion.
If you plan to make holiday in Europe you can save money, although now the dollar has not a good exchange rate against the euro. In Czechoslovakia, in Prague, you can pay for breast augmentation 1300 euro, in Poland 2000, and in Belgrade (Serbia) 2500. Even in Tunisia and Morocco, there are good facilities for the breast surgery . Many Europeans go to Tunis and Casablanca, which have become very good medical centers.
"Pay attention" say doctors : "there's always a reason if you spend less, it may be due to poor quality of the implants, also you have to pay for a doctor for example who has 30 years of experience".