Before and after bilateral breast implant revision in a 44-year-old woman with submuscular breast implants. She was very thin and athletic – she experienced chronic tightness and restriction in her shoulder range of motion to due the placement of implants under the pectoralis major muscles.
You can guess that she is right-handed because of the superior malposition of her right implant on her dominant side – the muscle pulls the implant upward in an unnatural location due to its activation every time she uses her dominant hand and arm. She had a significant animation deformity and “double bubble” due to the implant falling below the natural fold of the breast, seen when she is flexing her chest muscles.
Her revision involved removal of her old implants, replacing her pectoralis muscles back to the chest wall (they were very happy to be back where they belonged!), and insertion of new smooth round silicone gel breast implants on top of the muscle, in the subglandular position.
This simple outpatient procedure corrected every single one of her issues in just two hours. She took two weeks off work and one month off exercise to allow her muscles to heal back to the ribs and sternum without disruption. Follow up photos are shown 4 months after surgery.
*All photos are actual patient photographs and are for illustrative purposes only. Individual results may vary.
