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Choosing the Right Breast Implant: Gummy Bear Implants
The breast augmentation is highly customizable thanks to more and more breast implants entering the market. If you need breast implants and you are trying to choose the best option, it can be stressful trying to understand all of the different possibilities. The Gummy Bear implant is one that has some advantages over the rest and might be a great solution for you.
What Are Gummy Bear Implants?
Gummy bear implants are gel-based and have an advantage over most other types of implants because they keep their shape very well. The reason they are called gummy bear implants is that the gel is cohesive, resembling gummy bear candy.
What Are the Main Advantages and Disadvantages?
Like any implant material, gummy bear implants have both pros and cons. They do provide the necessary function of solving issues with structure, shape, and size. They have also been shown to have a lower number of capsular contracture complications than other types of implants. Capsular contracture complications are among the most common in breast augmentation, resulting in a hardening and tightening of the implants. While other types of implants can leak, causing serious complications, gummy bear implants are less likely to do so.
As for disadvantages, gummy bear implants are more expensive compared to other options. Because breast implants are often not covered by insurance, paying for implants can be a challenge. The surgery is also more extensive, involving a longer incision. While they are less likely to leak than other implants, when they do, leaks can be more difficult to discover. It is also possible, though unlikely, that the implants may rotate over time, causing a change in shape.
Is It Time to Get an Implant?
If you need reconstruction during one of the most difficult times of your life as you are fighting breast cancer, or if you feel that you need to improve your figure and enhance your beauty, then breast augmentation may be just what you want. Gummy bear implants can make a huge difference, and they are considered reasonably safe. Even so, you always need to be aware of the possible risks associated with such surgery.
Like any breast augmentation surgery, you may suffer from pain or scarring as a result. Every surgery carries a certain risk of infection, and implants have a special concern because they may rupture. That risk is reduced with gummy bear implants, but it is still present. Some other unusual side effects may be severe nausea after surgery or weight loss. Back pain is another possible problem.
If you are seeking breast augmentation and you want a caring, experienced plastic surgeon to make sure that you can mitigate these risks as much as possible while restoring your original image, Dr. Fichadia can give you compassionate care and provide the services you need. Dr. Fichadia can give you various types of breast implants or other forms of reconstructive or cosmetic surgery. Contact her office, located in Portland, OR, to learn more about how plastic surgery can help you.
Dr. Fichadia is a double board-certified, comprehensively trained plastic and reconstructive surgeon. She completed general surgical training at St Elizabeth’s Medical Center, an affiliate of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, and subsequently completed a highly competitive plastic surgery program at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR. She has presented research from her time in Boston and Portland at national and international surgical meetings such as Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons and annual meeting of American Society of Plastic Surgery.
