Is it better to use a low profile breast implant or a high profile breast prosthesis in breast enlargement surgery?
There are several advantages to the use of high profile breast implants. First, just as the name suggests, for any given fill volume, high profile breast implants will implant more projection or profile when compared to moderate or “normal” breast prosthesis, and most certainly more than low profile, or anatomically shaped breast implants. The way to picture this is that if you had a cone with a highly sitting tip versus a cone with a wide base, the narrower, taller cone would point more (think of Madonna’s show bra!) and thus give more projection to the breast. What this means is that women with a narrower, smaller chest wall can still have larger breasts. The advantage to some women, and disadvantage to others comes from a basic difference in perception as what a natural breast should look like. If a patient prefers a highly “perky,” high profile, or well projecting breast, the high profile breast implant would be considered ideal.
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