How Will Measurements Affect Augmentaion Surgery?

How Will Measurements Affect Augmentaion Surgery?

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While plastic surgery is partially art, optimal results with minimal risks, rapid recovery, and minimal reoperations require that surgeons use art after they apply science, not in lieu of science. The scientific method is based on using objective, measurable data to test a theory or hypothesis.

Absent objective data, methods are not scientific. Instead, the methods are simply opinions. To determine whether results based on opinions are better compared to results based on scientifically tested and valid methods, it is important for you as a patient to consider data on results that have been scientifically peer reviewed and published in indexed medical journals.

Optimal results and outcomes with minimal reoperations require that you and your surgeon make optimal decisions before your augmentation. For the past three decades, surgeons and patients have based most of their decisions on subjective parameters, such as cup size, terms such as thin, and terms such as tight skin.

To determine implant size, many surgeons allow patients to judge size by pictures. Other surgeons allow patients to purchase a bra of the size they desire and place test implants into the bra to determine the size implant to place during the augmentation.

Many of these methods allow patients to define their wishes and then force their desires on their tissues whether or not the desires consider the dimensions and characteristics of their tissues.

When patient and surgeon force tissues to a desired result instead of defining realistic limits of what each individual patient's tissues will safely allow, irreversible tissue compromises and uncorrectable deformities can result.

These compromises can include skin thinning, shrinkage and loss of breast tissue, visible implant edges, visible traction rippling, excessive sagging of the breasts, implant malpositions, and even chest wall deformities.

Traditionally, many surgeons have resisted using measurements, instead preferring to rely on their aesthetic eyes to make decisions. Decisions based on subjective parameters without objective measurements contributed to an unenviable track record of an average 17 percent reoperation rate within just three years following augmentation in FDA studies.

During the past seven years, we have developed more objective methods of assessing the dimensions and tissues of the breast. Instead of using terms like small, big, tight, loose, proportional, cup size and other terms that are subject to wide differences in interpretation and cannot be studied scientifically, we now rely on a few very specific, objective measurements and defined decision processes to make critical decisions before augmentation.

A key question is whether these more objective methods using simple measurements and defined decision processes actually improve patients' outcomes and reduce reoperation rates.

Instead of a 17 percent reoperation rate in just three years following augmentation these new methods have enabled us to reduce reoperation rates to only 3 percent up to seven years after augmentation in 1,664 patients, and for the first time in history, to document a zero percent reoperation rate in fifty consecutive breast augmentation patients at three years following augmentation in an FDA study.

Combined with redefined surgical techniques, these processes have enabled more than 80 percent of our patients to be out to dinner the evening of surgery, and 96 percent to return to full, normal activities within twenty four hours following their breast augmentation.

About the Author:
Dave Stringham, the President of LookingYourBest.com writes about plastic surgery in Dallas, Texas and plastic surgery procedures such as dallas breast augmentation, rhytidectomy, breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, abdominoplasty, and liposuction.



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