The size and shape of your breasts can play a critical role in self-image, so small breasts can often make you feel less confident. Breast augmentation is a way for women to enhance breast volume, feel more comfortable in certain clothes, and boost self-esteem. This doesn't just increase the size of your breasts, the procedure can do so much more. If you're looking for breast augmentation Fairfield County board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. David Passaretti can help to give you the results you want towards a more confident, comfortable you.

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Breast Augmentation Can Have

FAR-REACHING BENEFITS

Enhance Your Figure

Breast augmentation is fully customized to your desires and body shape. By carefully selecting the ideal implant size, shape, and placement, Dr. Passaretti can help you achieve the most flattering figure.

Improve Self-Confidence

Overcoming insecurities about your breasts can improve your body image and overall self-confidence. After surgery, many patients are able to enjoy the freedom of wearing the clothes they want without hesitation.

Better Quality of Life

Newly found self-confidence can also improve your overall quality of life. Many of our Fairfield County breast augmentation patients find that they feel empowered to pursue new opportunities and relationships.

What are the capabilities of breast augmentation?

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Our board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. David Passaretti, offers a variety of breast enhancement procedures, including breast augmentation, at our Fairfield County office. Using advanced techniques, he can give your breasts a more balanced, symmetrical appearance, while allowing them to look natural and beautiful. Contact us to today schedule a consultation with Dr. Passaretti and discuss breast augmentation, it's costs, and if it is right for you.

Before Breast Augmentation

FACTORS TO CONSIDER:

Overall Health

Certain conditions can increase your risk of complications. As such, it is important to provide detailed information about your medical history.

Pregnancy

Patients should wait until after their pregnancy or breastfeeding to undergo breast augmentation so that their breast size and shape will remain stable.

Dissatisfaction with Breasts

Breast augmentation is typically recommended for patients who are significantly affected by the appearance of their breasts.

Expectations

While breast augmentation can achieve dramatic results, it is important to be aware of the limitations of the procedure and set your expectations accordingly.

Sagging

If your breasts have become stretched and are sagging, you may need a breast lift rather than an augmentation. However, a lift can often be combined with breast augmentation for enhanced results.

What is Breast Augmentation?

Breast augmentation is a surgical procedure used to enhance the size and shape of a woman’s breasts. Breast volume can be lost following pregnancy and nursing, after weight loss, and during the natural aging process, and some women are genetically predisposed towards having small or uneven breasts.

While breast augmentation will make the breasts larger, the surgery will not move the breasts closer together or lift sagging breasts. During your consultation, Dr. Passaretti can explain the difference between breast augmentation and a breast lift to help you determine the best option.

Factors to Consider

One of the most important steps in any plastic surgery is your initial consultation. During this time, you will speak with Dr. Passaretti about your goals and learn more about what options are available to you. When it comes to breast augmentation, you have many choices, including the:

Type of implant
Type of incision
Implant size

These factors can be combined in several various ways that ultimately produce different end results. Whether you choose submuscular or subglandular implant placement will affect both the final look of your newly enlarged breasts and your healing time.

Common Types of Incisions

During an in-depth consultation, Dr. Passaretti can help you understand what type of incision is best for your needs.

Inframammary

Inframammary incisions are created beneath each breast, in the crease where the tissue meets the ribs. This type of incision can be used to place both silicone and saline implants.

Although saline implants can be rolled or folded up for insertion, and then filled after they are placed within the breasts, silicone implants are pre-filled. Inframammary incisions are the most common type of incision used.

Although they are generally larger than other types of incisions, Dr. Passaretti is able to conceal any scarring within the natural contours of the breast. Inframammary incisions can be used to place implants either above or below the breast muscle, depending on a patient's goals. This type of incision can be reused in the future for a breast revision or implant replacement.

Periareolar

Periareolar incisions are created around a patient's areola, which is the colored area that surrounds the nipple. This technique is especially helpful for Dr. Passaretti to carefully hide the appearance of any scarring. The natural change in skin color and texture at the edge of the areola helps to hide the incision. Although periareolar incisions are typically restricted for saline implants, Dr. Passaretti's extensive experience with this technique allows him to safely use silicone implants for a more natural result. Patients are frequently concerned about loss of nipple sensation with this technique, however, if properly performed this should not be an issue. This incision may be the most well hidden of al the incision locations because it is only exposed when a women is fully disrobed. For some patients with a small areola this may not be an option.

Periareolar incisions are located close to where the implants will rest, so Dr. Passaretti is able to place the implant with great precision. Like inframammary incisions, periareolar incisions can be used in the future for revision surgery.

Other Types of Incisions

Transaxillary

Transaxillary breast augmentation is performed by inserting deflated saline implants through the armpit. Dr. Passaretti uses endoscopic tools to create a pathway to the breast, where he can place the silicone shell either above or below the pectoral muscle. Next, he fills the breast implants according to your aesthetic goals. This approach can not be used for silicone implants or in revisionary surgery.

This type of incision is one of the least discreet since any scarring may be visible when a women's arm is elevated and clothing frequently leaves this area uncovered. Since a greater amount of tissue will be affected, this type of augmentation results in a slightly longer recovery time than periareolar and inframammary incisions.

Transumbilical

During transumbilical breast augmentation (TUBA), incisions are made through the navel. Through this incision, Dr. Passaretti reaches up to the breasts using endoscopic tools, where he places saline implant shells and fills them.

This method results in very little scarring, which is hidden in the navel and is completely unnoticeable. Because this incision is the furthest from the breasts, it is very important to select a surgeon with a great level of skill and training.

Submuscular Placement

Many patients and doctors alike believe submuscular breast implants look and feel more natural than subglandular implants since the chest's natural muscle covers some of the implant. This way, the implant adds volume while still being partially concealed with natural tissue. Dr. Passaretti can place either saline or silicone implants using this technique.

Recovery

While they may look and feel more natural, the recovery for submuscular implant surgery is longer than subglandular implant placement, as Dr. Passaretti will need to manipulate a greater amount of tissue during the surgery.

Benefits

Submuscular implants generally have a lower occurrence of capsular contracture than subglandular implants. Capsular contracture occurs when scar tissue grows around an implant, constricting it and causing pain and a variety of other symptoms. Submuscular implants also have a lower rate of "bottoming out," in which the implants sit too low on the chest and make the nipples look high.

Subglandular Placement

Subglandular breast implants heal much faster than submuscular implants. They are placed above the pectoral muscle and beneath the skin and fat of the breast.

Appearance

Many patients feel subglandular implants look more artificial, although a skilled surgeon such as Dr. Passaretti can still create a very natural look with this type of placement. Women with a greater amount of natural breast tissue, for example, may be good candidates. This type of placement generally results in more dramatic cleavage than submuscular implants. And if you require revision surgery for your implants, this type of implant is easier to access in the future.

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Breast Augmentation Benefits

The benefits of breast augmentation go beyond enhancing your self-image and self-confidence. Besides increasing the fullness and projection of the breasts and improving the balance of a woman’s figure, patients have experienced an overall increase in satisfaction in their appearance, and as a result, an improved quality of life.

Choosing Your Breast Implants

Breast implants can give a woman a full bust, allow clothes to fit better, and boost self-confidence. There are two types of breast implants available: saline and silicone. While both have an outer silicone shell, they differ in material and consistency. Saline implants are filled with sterile salt water. They are inserted empty, and filled once they are in place. Silicone implants are pre-filled with silicone gel, a thick, sticky fluid, and many women prefer them because they look and feel more like natural breast tissue.

Breast Augmentation Recovery

To ensure the best-looking results, Dr. Passaretti will provide you with detailed instructions on how to achieve a comfortable and successful breast augmentation recovery. Additionally, our team is happy to answer any questions you may have, and we will be with you every step of the way.

Immediately After Surgery

After undergoing a breast augmentation, Dr. Passaretti will examine the surgical site before helping you put on your compression garment. This garment is specially designed to minimize side effects of surgery, lower the risk of complications, and decrease recovery time. When you can comfortably walk, a friend or family member will need to drive you home. For the first 48 hours following surgery, you should get plenty of rest and avoid any activities or exercises that can put strain on your pectoral muscles or disturb the surgical site. Your breasts may feel sore, sensitive, or swollen during these first few days. To help manage any discomfort, Dr. Passaretti can prescribe painkillers, and you can apply ice packs to your breasts for 15-minute intervals to reduce any swelling.

Your Remaining Recovery Timeline

It can take several months to completely recover from breast augmentation surgery and enjoy the full benefits of your procedure. While every patient is different, recovery typically spans a six-month timeline:

The first week: You will continue to wear your compression garment, and inflammation and bruising should be significantly reduced. You will undergo a follow-up appointment at our office so Dr. Passaretti can evaluate your breasts and remove any sutures as necessary. Many patients are able to return to work, school, or gentle activity by the end of the first week.
Weeks two to three: You should experience only minor soreness and swelling at this point. You can begin gentle activities such as light walking to improve circulation. However, strenuous activities should still be avoided. Additionally, Dr. Passaretti may instruct you to stop wearing your compression garment.
Weeks four to six: Your breasts should have stopped swelling entirely and the results of your procedure should become more apparent. Patients should seek Dr. Passaretti’s approval before resuming any physically demanding activities.
Six months to one year after your procedure: By this time, you should be completely healed, and you can enjoy the full results of your breast augmentation. Dr. Passaretti may continue to see you for follow-up visits, and you should undergo regular physical exams and mammograms to monitor the health of your breasts and pectoral muscles.

If you have any questions or concerns throughout the healing process, we will be happy to help.

Choosing Breast Implants

Choosing the right type of breast implants is important. Both saline and silicone breast implants are offered at our Fairfield County, Connecticut office and we can help you select the one best suited for your goals.

Breast Implant Revision Surgery

A breast implant revision, also known as breast implant replacement, shares the same goal as a breast augmentation – to restore a youthful breast contour and appearance. The surgery involves removal and replacement of implants and is performed to change the size or type of the implants, or correct any complications from a previous breast augmentation.

Breast implant revision may be recommended if you want a different breast size, your implants have shifted in position or the scar tissue has tightened uncomfortably around the implant, the breast tissue has changed due to skin stretching from a weight loss or gain, your saline breast implants have deflated, or an X-ray or MRI indicates a silicone implant has a shell leak.

Breast Augmentation in Fairfield County, Connecticut

Breast Augmentation Before & Afters

Breast Augmentation Can Have

FAR-REACHING BENEFITS

Enhance Your Figure

Improve Self-Confidence

Better Quality of Life

What are the capabilities of breast augmentation?

Recommended for Patients Who Wish To Improve:

Size

Shape

Symmetry

Restore Lost Tissue After a Mastectomy With Breast Augmentation

Enhance Your Curves and Achieve a Shapelier Bust Line With Breast Augmentation

Before Breast Augmentation

FACTORS TO CONSIDER:

Overall Health

Pregnancy

Dissatisfaction with Breasts

Expectations

Sagging

Enhance Your Curves And Achieve A Shapelier Bust Line With Breast Augmentation

Breast Augmentation Procedure

What is Breast Augmentation?

Factors to Consider

Recommended by Our Patients

The Procedure

Common Types of Incisions

Inframammary

Periareolar

Other Types of Incisions

Transaxillary

Transumbilical

Submuscular Placement

Recovery

Benefits

Subglandular Placement

Appearance