Implants

Anesthesia

general (anesthesia)

Duration

up to 90 min

Stay in clinic

1 day

Recovery period

• 1 week off work, rest, sleeping on your back, no physical exertion of any kind (cleaning, cooking, etc.).
• Return to intellectual work and driving after about 1 week.
• Return to physical work and sports (cycling on a bike path) after about 1 month.
• Return to very strenuous physical activities (horse riding, jumping, running) after 3 months.

Certain types of strenuous physical activities that strain the pectoral muscle and involve a risk of injury are not recommended at all after breast augmentation surgery with implants!

Follow-up examinations

• Local condition check the day after the procedure.
• After 1 week (mandatory) – check of the local condition; sutures are dissolvable;
• After 1 year (mandatory) – final check of the operation result – with the ultrasound examination result.
• At any time, when needed.

Medication after the procedure

Over-the-counter painkillers.

Wearing special underwear:

supportive sports bra for 3 months, and then always for sports.

Inevitable consequences of the operation (always occur)

• pain,
• swelling,
• bruising,
• scar,
• sensory disturbances in the scar area,
• implants are always palpable; in very slender women, they may be visible in certain body positions.

Surgical complications (may occur)

1. Early (rare): hematoma (accumulation of blood in the wound requiring surgical evacuation), infection (requires removal of implants and antibiotic administration), hypertrophic scar, breast asymmetry always occurs before the procedure (it may decrease after the procedure but may also worsen).
2. B. Late (relatively common – minimum 30% within 10 years): implant rupture (requires another operation to remove or remove and insert new implants), capsule contracture around implants (the breast is harder than the implant, may change shape, may cause discomfort), fluid accumulation around the implant (may require another procedure), implant visibility, breast lymphoma (type of cancer) associated with implants risk 1 in 5 thousand operations – only with textured (rough) implants, dissatisfaction with breast shape or size of inserted implants, non-specific pain in the breast area.