My breasts are quite small and it makes me insecure. I would like to have bigger breasts, but I would rather not have surgery. Are there other options?
Mrs. Moraal
Werner Beekman, plastic surgeon:
In the past, all kinds of alternative techniques have been invented to enlarge breasts. But afterwards they were not so successful or even led to complications.
Filling the breasts with your own fat tissue is the most natural, but the gain is small and often multiple operations are required. This is because you cannot inject unlimited fat during an operation. The injected fat only survives if sufficient ingrowth of small blood vessels can take place. Large amounts of fat do not survive and die, leading to inflammation in the breast. In the longer term, minuscule calcifications can occur, which, during a periodic breast check, look too much like a calcification that is appropriate for a starting tumor. The gain after multiple surgeries is at most one to two cup sizes.
From America there is a technique in which a plastic cup has to be worn over both breasts for months, which is vacuumed by a small battery pump, day and night. Due to the constant suction, the connective tissue and fat in the breast increases. It need not be explained that this causes quite an attack on social life, if only by the sound of the pump. The gain is then only one cup size and it is not clear whether the breasts will return to their original shape after the end of the therapy.
The best solution remains the classic breast augmentation with a prosthesis. Especially because the prostheses have gone through a lot of development and are nothing like the very first products that were prone to leakage.
