Victoria (Posh Spice) Beckham
Every year thousands of women around the world get breast augmentation surgery (breast implants). Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, is a typical example of how NOT to do implants. If you are considering implants you should read on.
Instructions
1. If you are considering breast augmentation surgery there are many things you need to seriously consider to ensure that you get the look and effect you are looking for. The first step you need to take is to secure funding for the surgery and to choose a surgeon. Choosing the surgeon is the most important step in this entire process because the quality of work will effect you for many years to come. Be sure to have several consultations with various surgeons and know your objectives.
For example, if you are looking to simply enhance a small chest you will not want Pamela Anderson or Victoria Beckham "balloons" which look like two melons placed oddly on your breast bone. This look is what I call the "American Breast Augmentation". All too often in USA surgeons use implants to make a caricature of women with an unnatural and very obvious implant. This is partly due to the long-time ban on silicone implants which are infinitely more natural looking and feeling than their saline counterparts. Due to this factor you should very seriously consider each doctor based on their results, which you should request to see at the time of consultation. My strongest recommendation is to choose a silicone implant that enhances you but is not too large, I will discuss proportionality in the last step.
2. Once you have chose your surgeon you want to decide between types of implants. Saline implants remain an option but in my honest opinion they are the worst option for many reasons. Firstly saline implants feel very unnatural. No matter what a doctor says to you I highly suggest you find a friend or someone you feel close with who has a saline implant and you actually FEEL it. It is hard, immobile, abnormally rounded, even the teardrop shaped ones, and worse yet if not filled properly you will hear it swishing around! On top of that saline implants have a much greater tendency to spontaneously "deflate". The worst story I have encountered was a patient who was at her wedding and in her beautiful wedding dress with cleavage showing when her left breast burst. It is not an instantaneous reaction but rather a slow leak which usually takes between a half hour to two hours to deflate. The end result is inevitably one large breast and one deformed looking small breast. Obviously this will necessitate further surgery and further costs, remember this is cosmetic surgery and this will not ever be covered by insurance.
My recommendation for those seeking breast augmentation is to seek out a surgeon who uses so-called cohesive gel implants. Cohesive gel implants are silicone implants made from a harder silicone which is more or less like a gummy bear. If you have ever cut a gummy bear in half you will note that there is no leak, no distortion in the shape of the gummy bear (it can easily be put back together and look normal if held there) and thus no danger. These implants do not leak silicone even if they are ruptured, they do not deflate, they hold their shape inside the capsule which is created by the body after implantation and most importantly, they feel and look much more natural.
3. Now deciding on the size is the most important part of the entire process. I suggest you bring a friend, NOT A LOVER, with you to your consultation. You should be very cognisant of your own proportions. For example if you have small hips and want a large chest it is NOT going to work. Your hips should correlate somewhat to the size of your breasts. If you have a very large bottom and hips and no chest then naturally larger implants will work well on you as this will be a normal dimension for your body frame. The things you want to keep in mind are the dimensions of your overall body, the larger the hips and smaller the breast to begin with the larger the implant you can go with, conversely the smaller your hips the smaller you should go. Your chest, as in thorax, is also a factor. If you have a wide thorax and small breasts then you will want to go a bit bigger to fill the chest out, but do keep in mind if you have a masculine body type with a large thorax and small pelvis you will come off very disproportionately. Breasts should always correlate with your pelvic structure and should never be unnaturally large unless you intend on having a career as a stripper, porn star or erotic model.
Finally the reason you brought your friend is to give you a second opinion and reality check. All too often doctors are eager to place larger implants than are prudent. This is less a problem in Europe where implants are truly used to "enhance" a small chest but more of an American problem where implants were made (in)famous in shows such as Baywatch and in Hollywood in general and the look as traditionally been, just as the photo of Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, an unnatural. obvious, large and rounded look. Therefore do not let a surgeon talk you into implants you feel are too large and repeatedly stress you want a "natural" look and NOT an implant look. Also do not let yourself be talked into saline implants. Many surgeons have a vested interest in getting you to go with saline implants for many reasons including excess inventory since the reinstatement of silicone implants on the US market, future surgeries which are more of a guarantee with saline than any other implant, and also facility of implanting a deflated implant and filling it only when in your chest so as to make their job that much easier and the procedure that much faster.
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