What is in the top of the silicone fashion today and what do you need to be prepared for if you decide on such an operation? Will it help you regain lost feelings? We talked about this with the chief freelance specialist of the Ministry of Health of the Novosibirsk Region for plastic surgery, Oleg Mikhailov.
- Oleg, how long have breast augmentation and correction operations been carried out in Novosibirsk? Which women are more likely to want to make themselves more beautiful?
- Plastic surgery appeared in Novosibirsk in the 80s and began to develop actively at the beginning of the 2000s and 2000s. Breast plastic surgery refers to aesthetic surgery, this is a small section of it. Women turn to enlarge or reduce their breasts, just tighten it a little, give it a beautiful shape. Sometimes men also apply for breast shape correction. These are mainly athletes who have been on some kind of drugs for a long time, and this provoked uncontrolled growth of breast tissue in them.
All people have the desire to make themselves beautiful - this is an instinct. I don't know a single person who would choose an ugly body for himself if he had a choice. Our main patients are, of course, middle-aged women. Why do they want to correct the shape of their breasts? Everything is simple here. When a woman looks in the mirror, she has a conflict between form and content. She still feels quite young, and age-related changes are already there.
- Have women started to go to plastic surgeons more often? Is there a fashion for a certain breast shape?
- There are two types of implants, with the help of which breast augmentation is performed - round and anatomical. 95% of our patients want a natural breast shape, so that someone would choose a spherical, spherical - this is extremely rare.
Women choose beautiful and well-made breasts. Photo from the site pixabay.com
The number of operations for each surgeon is approximately the same, but the number of clinics is growing, so the absolute number of such operations in Novosibirsk is also increasing. There are 15 licensed clinics in the city, each performing from one to 4-5 thousand such operations per year. There is still no data for this year on how many breast augmentation surgeries have been performed, the report will be a little later - in December.
Of course, the world is full of different freaks, someone can order a triangular breast or a breast of the 10th size, but in my practice I have not seen this. We have fashion only for beauty. If the breast is well and correctly done, if the implants are well selected and the rehabilitation period is correctly carried out, then it will be beautiful.
- Does it happen that a man forces a woman to make beautiful breasts for himself, or is it more often the desire of the woman herself?
- Rarely, but it happens, we deploy such patients and deny them an operation. 99% of women make breasts for themselves, and if for someone else, then in vain. As practice shows, it is unrealistic to keep someone with only the help of the chest. The man will leave anyway, and the surgeon will be guilty. This is a passed stage, I say no right away, and that's it.
- What risks should you be prepared for if you want to change your breast shape?
- You have to understand that when a person goes to a plastic surgeon, he goes to the surgeon. In medicine, there are no complications without complications, and even more so in surgery. And if the surgeon says that he has never had a single negative result, not a single complication in his life, then he is lying. Breast augmentation and reshaping operations are carried out not for medical reasons, but for social reasons, but these are still operations. Both the patient and the surgeon take enormous risks.
- What can happen?
- Spontaneous rupture of the implant may occur, the risk is minimal, less than 1%, but it is there. Old implants, which were used in breast augmentation 25-30 years ago, were indeed very dangerous in this respect. When they ruptured, a catastrophic situation arose, often all this ended with the removal of the breast. A modern implant, even if it breaks, will not bring any harm to the body. Sometimes people walk like this for years and cannot understand that something is wrong with them. They discover the rupture of the implant by chance during some kind of routine examination or ultrasound. In this case, the implant changes, the person forgets about it.
All the talk about the need to change implants every 10-15 years has no basis at all. Modern implants, if nothing happened to them, do not require replacement. In addition, all normal manufacturers give them a lifetime warranty. Not so long ago I examined a woman who had a new-generation implant in the 90s, but it looked as if it was done a month ago - an amazing shape.
Anything happens after breast surgery, it happens, sometimes distorts. But this is a minor nuisance, you need to come to the doctor and solve the problem.
- Recently, the media was discussing a case with a twisted breast during an operation. Are there many non-professionals in this area? Is there some kind of black market?
- The black market in breast plastic surgery was 15-20 years ago, when surgeons sat in public municipal hospitals, took money and operated without bearing any responsibility for their work.
Nowadays there are practically no non-professionals on the market, but they may start to appear. The fact is that every year hundreds of surgeons complete their clinical residency in plastic surgery in our country. And immediately after graduation, without the slightest experience, not knowing how tissues work and what to do with them, they go to operate. But I can reassure you - this is not about Novosibirsk. We have a minimum number of such doctors. After completing their residency, they usually already have sufficient experience to independently and efficiently carry out mammoplasty.
If the breast is well and correctly made, if the implants are well matched, then it will be beautiful. Photo from the site pixabay.com
- Can a woman with silicone breasts go to the bathhouse, ride a horse, and so on? Does the breast remain sensitive?
- You can dive under water, fly on airplanes, you can do anything, but of course you need to take some precautions. If you plan to run, parachute jumping, the chest should be rigidly fixed. A tight sports top is enough. Are breasts still sensitive for sex? In 95% of cases it retains. But if suddenly the nerve does not go where it should go, then you have to sacrifice it. I've seen this two or three times.
- How traumatic is this operation - will the scar be visible?
- Scars of women in such cases are of the last concern. They can be made inconspicuous, or generally invisible, they are located in areas that are hidden from the eye: under the breast or in the armpit fold.
To make the scar completely invisible, we recommend that our patients go to a good tattoo parlor in a little over a year, where it will be painted over with a flesh color. And then he disappears altogether. But I don’t remember someone coming to me and saying: Doctor, I’m worried about the scar.
- Is it possible to preserve beautiful and natural breasts for life, what does it depend on?
- If the parents rewarded the child-girl with good elastic skin with a lot of collagen and great elasticity, then her breasts at 50 and 60 can be attractive in shape. And it happens that at the age of 18, something already needs to be done. If a girl, due to the ugly shape of her breasts, does not have any personal relationships, this is a real tragedy for her.
