After breast augmentation surgery

Your breasts will be wrapped with gauze bandage as well as a tighter bandage for protection and support. You also may have drainage tubes coming out of the incision for several days, to help drain some excess fluid.

It is important to take the medication prescribed to you by your doctor. Someone will need to drive you home You may need assistance at home over the next couple of days.

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• Rest is important to healing process, so do it as much as possible following your procedure. Drink plenty of fluids. Be sure to take your doctor"s prescribed medications.
• For at least 3-5 days, you should try to keep arm extension to a minimal. Elbows should not be raised higher than armpit. Tissues will heal more quickly if you avoid stretching and separating muscle/tissue surrounding the breast implants.
• Most likely, you will be able to resume calm, quiet work within a few days of your surgery. You should still avoid physical exertion for several weeks, depending on advice of your plastic surgeon.
• After several days, your gauze dressing will be removed. You may be required to wear a support bra to help your breasts form and maintain a pleasing, balanced shape. You may or may not be able to shower, depending on where your stitches are.
• Stitches will come out within a week to ten days, but swelling may continue, gradually subsiding over several weeks. With swelling, your breasts may seem hard ie. unnatural, but eventually they should soften to a more natural feel.
• You will probably be able to resume exercise and normal physical activities within a month or two, when soreness has subsided. Recovery varies from patient to patient and depends upon technique, type of implant, site of placement that the doctor uses, as well as the level of activities in your daily routine. Ask your doctor for more specific information.

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Breast augmentation reliably increases size as well as possibly balancing body proportions. Clothes may fit better, and you may also experience an increase in confidence and self-esteem.

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Breast augmentation makes breasts larger. Remember, also that larger breasts sag faster than smaller breasts - augmented breasts do this as well. It is possible that you may require plastic surgery in later years to correct sagging if you choose to have large implants. Gravity, unfortunately has no exceptions. A study by Scott Spear, M.D. gives some information about how long breast implants last. This study can be found at www.plastic.org/info/HowLongDoSalineImplantsLast.html

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