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| Implant Placement |
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| Your breast implants may be placed either partially under the pectoralis major
muscle (submuscular) or on top of the muscle and directly beneath the breasts
(subglandular). |
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| Incision sites |
Normal breast |
| Submuscular placement may provide you with youthful-looking breasts for a
longer time, may make your recovery longer, may be more painful, and may
make it more difficult to have some reoperation procedures, when compared to
the subglandular approach. The possible advantages of submuscular placement
are that it may result in less palpable implants (less likely to "feel" the implants
through the breast), less capsular contracture, and will make it easier to image
the breast with mammography. |
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| Submuscular Placement |
Submammary placement |
| Subglandular placement may make your surgery and recovery shorter, may be
less painful, and may be easier to access for reoperation compared to
submuscular placement. However, subglandular placement may result in more
palpable implants (more likely to "feel" the implants through the breast), more
capsular contracture and more difficult imaging of the breast with
mammography. |
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