Tissue Trauma

Any operation causes some degree of injury (trauma) to your tissues. The more precise and delicate the surgery, the less trauma, but some tissue trauma is unavoidable. Your body responds to tissue trauma in predictable ways: pain, swelling, bruising, and stiffness after surgery.

The greater the amount of trauma to your tissues, the more discomfort and other symptoms you’ll have after surgery.

The greater the trauma, the longer it takes your body to heal and the longer it takes for you to feel normal and return to normal activities.

The more trauma and bleeding you experience during surgery, the greater the likelihood you may develop problems such as capsular contracture or hematoma that require additional operations and can compromise the quality of your result.

To put an implant in your breast, the surgeon creates a pocket to receive the implant. The pocket can be behind breast tissue (retromammary), or behind breast tissue and behind muscle (partial retropectoral). If it’s just behind breast tissue, the surgeon lifts the breast tissue off the pectoralis muscle to create the pocket. If you are thin and need more soft-tissue coverage, you need additional muscle cover over the implant, and the surgeon needs to create a pocket behind the muscle (submuscular) or partially behind muscle and partially behind breast tissue (dual plane). Traditionally, you could expect more discomfort, swelling, and a longer recovery. How much longer? It depends on your tissues, and it depends on how the pocket is created at surgery. Since we developed and published the first techniques in the history of augmentation that allow patients to return to full normal activities within twenty-four hours, you can now recover just as rapidly if an implant is placed behind muscle as if it were placed only behind breast tissue! Using our twenty-four-hour recovery surgical techniques, manipulating your pectoralis muscle to provide more coverage, if done properly, does not result in more pain or a longer recovery
 

Learn about recovery before surgery? You must be kidding! Why not just worry about that when the time comes? Because...

Learning about recovery can potentially tell you more about a surgeon’s skills than anything else you can ask a surgeon. It is almost impossible for any surgeon to exaggerate the surgeon’s level of expertise if you ask the right questions about recovery.

Your experiences during recovery are a direct consequence of what happens during your surgery.

The less traumatic your surgical procedure, the easier and faster your recovery.

You can’t see what your surgeon will do in the operating room, but you can quickly figure out how much trauma and bleeding you’re likely to experience by simply asking in detail about recovery.

Would you like to have an easier and faster recovery? Would you prefer less time away from your normal activities? Less time off work? Less bruising? No drain tubes coming out of your body? No tight bandages or special bras? All of these things are possible, but only if you choose the right surgeon. In fact, all of these are routine in some augmentation practices. But not in all augmentation practices. The only way you’ll know is to ask about recovery before your augmentation!

It’s nice to have anesthesia when you’re having surgery! Having anesthesia means that you will receive drugs. The longer the operation, the longer the anesthesia, and the more drugs you’ll receive. When the drugs are discontinued following surgery, your body must break down (metabolize) the drugs before you will feel normal. Anesthetic drugs often cause some hangover. Hangover can be good if it eases your discomfort immediately after surgery. But once you’re feeling better, a hangover that lasts longer is a nuisance because you don’t feel normal as quickly.

Some people are prone to develop nausea following anesthesia. Even the best antinausea drugs don’t totally prevent nausea in some patients. However, the fewer narcotic drugs you get, the less chance of your developing nausea. The shorter the anesthesia and the less tissue trauma during surgery, the fewer narcotic drugs you’ll need.

The longer you need anesthesia and the more tissue trauma, the more drugs you’ll need, the longer you’ll be required to remain at the surgery facility, and the longer time before you’ll feel normal.

Ask about surgery time, anesthesia time, time in the recovery room, and how long until you’ll return home the day of surgery. all of these factors will tell you a lot about how much anesthesia you’ll receive and when you can expect to feel normal.

There is no avoiding the fact that the shorter your surgery and the less tissue trauma, the fewer drugs you’ll need, the less chance of nausea and hangover, and the more rapidly you’ll return to normal.

I know I’m repeating, but I want to be sure you’ve got the picture!

In our peer-reviewed and published study of 627 patients in our twenty-four-hour recovery publications,refining our anesthetic and surgical techniques resulted in documented recovery times that we previously considered impossible. All patients were operated on using general, endotracheal anesthesia, and here are the recovery results:

Time from the beginning of the breast augmentation procedure until patients left our accredited outpatient surgery facility to return home averaged less than ninety minutes! All patients scored maximum on recovery criteria, and all were able to raise their arms fully over their heads before leaving.

No patient required narcotic-strength pain medications at home.

Recovering from a pocket created behind breast tissue is NOW THE SAME AS RECOVERING FROM A POCKET CREATED BEHIND MUSCLE, USING OUR TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR RECOVERY SURGICAL TECHNIQUES! Why? We have now developed techniques that minimize trauma and bleeding when we manipulate your pectoralis muscle.

If you are thin and need muscle cover (or ne ed it for other reasons), it is more important to have muscle cover than to avoid slightly more tissue trauma. You and your surgeon must decide based on your tissues. even if a surgeon is unfamiliar with our twenty-four-hour recovery surgical techniques, you should prioritize assuring adequate soft-tissue cover over your implant.

The more tissue trauma caused by your surgery, the longer and more difficult your recovery. Our published studies and techniques in the past few yearshave completely redefined patient recovery, and it all results from techniques that minimize trauma to your tissues and minimize bleeding.

Ask about recovery and compare what surgeons tell you. the opportunity to return to full, normal activities within twenty-four hours following your augmentation tells you that a surgeon really can deliver less trauma and bleeding, not just say that he or she can. Longer recovery times usually imply more tissue trauma at surgery. No matter what a surgeon tells you about the surgeon’s expertise or techniques, recovery tells the truest story.

Tissue Trauma

Any operation causes some degree of injury (trauma) to your tissues. The more precise and delicate the surgery, the less trauma, but some tissue trauma is unavoidable. Your body responds to tissue trauma in predictable ways: pain, swelling, bruising, and stiffness after surgery.

The greater the amount of trauma to your tissues, the more discomfort and other symptoms you’ll have after surgery.

The greater the trauma, the longer it takes your body to heal and the longer it takes for you to feel normal and return to normal activities.

The more trauma and bleeding you experience during surgery, the greater the likelihood you may develop problems such as capsular contracture or hematoma that require additional operations and can compromise the quality of your result.

To put an implant in your breast, the surgeon creates a pocket to receive the implant. The pocket can be behind breast tissue (retromammary), or behind breast tissue and behind muscle (partial retropectoral). If it’s just behind breast tissue, the surgeon lifts the breast tissue off the pectoralis muscle to create the pocket. If you are thin and need more soft-tissue coverage, you need additional muscle cover over the implant, and the surgeon needs to create a pocket behind the muscle (submuscular) or partially behind muscle and partially behind breast tissue (dual plane). Traditionally, you could expect more discomfort, swelling, and a longer recovery. How much longer? It depends on your tissues, and it depends on how the pocket is created at surgery. Since we developed and published the first techniques in the history of augmentation that allow patients to return to full normal activities within twenty-four hours, you can now recover just as rapidly if an implant is placed behind muscle as if it were placed only behind breast tissue! Using our twenty-four-hour recovery surgical techniques, manipulating your pectoralis muscle to provide more coverage, if done properly, does not result in more pain or a longer recovery
 

“Learning about your recovery can tell you a lot about a surgeon and the quality of your surgery. A more skilled surgeon usually offers you a simpler and faster recovery.”

Learn about recovery before surgery? You must be kidding! Why not just worry about that when the time comes? Because...

Learning about recovery can potentially tell you more about a surgeon’s skills than anything else you can ask a surgeon. It is almost impossible for any surgeon to exaggerate the surgeon’s level of expertise if you ask the right questions about recovery.

Your experiences during recovery are a direct consequence of what happens during your surgery.

The less traumatic your surgical procedure, the easier and faster your recovery.

You can’t see what your surgeon will do in the operating room, but you can quickly figure out how much trauma and bleeding you’re likely to experience by simply asking in detail about recovery.

Would you like to have an easier and faster recovery? Would you prefer less time away from your normal activities? Less time off work? Less bruising? No drain tubes coming out of your body? No tight bandages or special bras? All of these things are possible, but only if you choose the right surgeon. In fact, all of these are routine in some augmentation practices. But not in all augmentation practices. The only way you’ll know is to ask about recovery before your augmentation!

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