Safety of Silicone Implants vs Saline? Ask Dr Sessa – Sarasota, FL

So, back in the late ’90s, they started some literature started to come out which created quite a scare amongst women that already had silicone implants and people prospectively who were looking to get silicone. There was actually a moratorium on them. You couldn’t use them. The federal government wanted to look into it a lot further. All of this was disproven. And back in about 2007, the FDA came out and said none of this was actually proven; there’s no association between silicone implants and any auto-immune or any issues that were previously being associated with it. And that gave a lot of freedom back to women that are looking at implants, because the only choice they had was for saline.

But for some people, silicone is really what they really want. I mean, it’s more natural appearing. In thin people, it’s really less chance of rippling. I think personally, it looks more natural and most of my patients love it. The people that do have it, I’ve never had one person come back and say, I wish I went with saline. Usually, it’s the other way around. Usually, I wish I had gotten the silicone. But either one, I think that they’re both great products, and it carries a very, very high satisfaction rate.

Dr. Alberico Sessa
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Sarasota Surgical Arts
4143 Clark Road, Sarasota, Florida 34233
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Getting The Right Size Breast Implants – Cosmetic Surgery Sarasota FL

Dr. Alberico Sessa
941.923.1736 for a free consultation
Sarasota Surgical Arts
4143 Clark Road, Sarasota, Florida 34233
http://www.SarasotaSurgicalArts.com/b…

This is a saline type implant, and this is considered to be sort of a hybrid of an implant. This is a hybrid between a very flat implant, which would be a moderate-shaped implant, versus something along this line, which is a high-profile implant. Now, when you look at them side to side, you can see the difference. This is a lot wider, and it’s also a lot less projection. This is smaller in terms of width, but it has more projection.

So, all of these implants really, I try to fit to your anatomy. So, if you’re more narrow chested, you’re gonna want to use a more narrow implant, which would be something like this high-profile implant. So, we use a narrow implant but it gives you the most amount of projection for a narrow implant versus if you’re very wide-chested person, you can fit a very wide implant and still look very natural. That’s sort of the art behind choosing the proper implant for you.

Saline versus silicone is part of the picture, but it’s really how wide of an implant can your body fit and still look natural. If you measure, in terms of your breast width measures out to be about 11 centimeters, which is about average. Let’s say that you measure out to be 11 centimeters, and I choose an implant that is 14 centimeters in diameter for you. Obviously, your implant is gonna look probably artificial because not only will you have a lot of projection, but you’ll have a lot of width, and the width is what gives you that artificial appearance in terms of how it’s falling off the side of your chest and going out towards your arm pit.

Now, there’s a certain amount of that that looks very, very nice. You want to have a nice side silhouette in terms of breast augmentation. However, there’s a very slight line where you can go a little bit too far. And that’s really the art in cosmetic breast enhancement is that you want to really find a size for a woman that really fits her.

So, I really feel that if you want to look natural, there’s gonna be about three different, maybe four different sizes that you should really choose from, and they’re gonna be pretty close in size. They’re not gonna be 500cc implants, a 300, and a 200. They’re gonna be within about 100ccs of each other. So, visually, post-operatively, there’s not going to be a whole lot of difference, but I guarantee you that you will be happy with the result.

BREAST SURGERY – PAIN AFTER THE SURGERY? – SARASOTA FL

Sarasota Surgical Arts
Post-Op Care for Breast Enlargement
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Most of my patients with breast augmentation will experience a little bit of swelling, a little bit of discomfort, but usually, most of my patients usually tell me that it’s sort of akin to, like, if you have almost like a Charlie horse or feel like you pulled a muscle or something. But most of them do quite well. Usually, I’ll put my patients on some medicines, of course, some antibiotics and some medicine that will help reduce the swelling. But also, some homeopathic medicines to help reduce the amount of bruising and swelling afterwards.

We also have very, very meticulous instructions that go over the use of ice, the use of compression. I usually require my patients to wear an almost like a sports bra type of thing just to allow some compression on the breasts, and I also use a strap that goes across or an Ace wrap type of device to help keep pressure overnight. Now, these things, as far as I’m concerned, I think it’s very, very important to allow the implants to set. Because sometimes after implant surgery, implants have a tendency to rise, and they rise up, and they stay there for, could be a month, could be two months, before they usually get down to about the three month mark were they start to settle.

So, all of these things really help the post-operative period, and I really want my patients to be as comfortable with both the result the way that their breasts look, as well as with any discomfort or any problems that they may see. And most of my patients do really, really well. Within two to three days, most if any of their mild discomfort is gone. They’re back to normal activities. Most of my patients are back at work at 2, 3 days. And most of them do quite well. Yeah.