8 Tips for Choosing the Right Type of Breast Implants

1. Consider the Look You Want for Your New Breasts

Knowing what you want your breasts to look like will help you and your surgeon choose the right breast implant size. Do you want to regain your pre-pregnancy breasts? Do you simply want to fill a bra for once in your life, without padding? Or have your breasts started to sag and droop due to breastfeeding or weight changes? Having a good idea of the desired end result is one of the most helpful things you can do to choose your breast implant size. Bringing magazine or online photos can help guide your consultation.

2. Know Your Body

Your body's size, weight, build, shoulder width, hip width, buttocks, and initial breast volume should all be considered when choosing a breast implant. Generally, the larger all of these areas are (except for initial breast volume), the larger the implant needed to maintain proportion. It's not easy to stand in front of a mirror and take a very critical look at your own body. But by doing so, you significantly increase your knowledge and appreciation of your body, and therefore your ability to choose the right type of breast implant.

3. Ensure Breast Implants Are a Good Fit for Your Lifestyle

Are you an athlete? Do you still want to have children? Are you overweight? Do you plan to lose weight? All of these should be considered when choosing the right breast implant size. Furthermore, this is a decision that will impact your current life and have repercussions in the future. For example, if you plan on having children in the near future, it would be best to wait until after your pregnancy and breastfeeding before undergoing breast augmentation.

Your current weight and weight goals are also crucial. If you are in the process of losing weight, it's likely that you will also lose volume in your breasts. Therefore, you should wait until you have reached your ideal weight to undergo breast augmentation with implants, so your breasts don't change size, and your results last longer.

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4. Make Sure You Choose Breast Implants That Are Anatomically Appropriate

Cosmetic surgery patients receive thorough education about the breast augmentation process and receive specific recommendations based on their anatomy. Too many plastic surgeons use the same technique and implant for everyone. However, breast augmentation is more than just getting bigger breasts.

5. Exercise and Sports

If you are the type to sweat it out at the gym, go for runs or bike rides, or engage in serious sports, you need to consider the trade-off between larger breasts and performing your activities at your current comfort level. This doesn't mean breast augmentation will limit your activities. But larger breasts will feel different, require more support, and frankly, if too large, could be cumbersome during workouts. You need to have a frank discussion with your surgeon about this. A smaller or lower-profile implant might be necessary to meet your goals.

6. Seek Advice From Trusted Friends

It's always good to have your spouse, partner, or a trusted friend present during your consultation. They can provide support and give you a different perspective on what breast implant size suits you. Also, some people struggle to make up their minds and you always have the option to try on the implants as many times as you like. Once your decision is made, you won’t wake up from the operation "too big" or "too small" because you made the decision.

7. Bring a Friend to Your Consultation

Because there is a lot of information to process, patients don't always hear or remember everything the surgeon tells them. Having a friend or family member present during the consultation improves the retention of the information received. Furthermore, these friends, if they understand your desires, can provide another perspective and another set of eyes that can help determine the best breast implant.

8. Don't Be Afraid to Consult Your Surgeon More Than Once

During the initial consultation, patients and the surgeon decide together on the appropriate breast implant. If there is any doubt, it can usually be clarified at the pre-operative appointment. Sometimes patients have trouble visualizing how their breasts will look post-operation, even with 3D simulations. They simply aren't used to their new look and struggle to determine if the breast implants they chose are exactly the ones that will give them the look they envisioned.

In these instances, the surgeon asks the patient to schedule an additional appointment or more until she is sure of the implant choice. Although most surgeons don't, don't be afraid to visit your surgeon on multiple occasions.

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