Risks

Every operation has risks, and breast enhancement is no exception. Among them are:

• bleeding
• infection
• scarring related to the scarring around the implant
• interfering with breast cancer detection during mammograms
• problems with breastfeeding

Every augmentation patient will have a foreign body reaction to the implant. The degree to which this occurs depends on your own individual response and how you heal. Sometimes so much scar tissue will develop that the implants will harden. A classification system called Baker's Class I, II, II, and IV is used to classify the severity of the reaction.

Baker's Class I shows no scar contracture. Class II and Class III are differing degree of scar contracture. Class IV results in significant, painful, noticeable contraction. Contraction can tempered by improving the placement of the implant under the muscle or switching over to saline implants. When the implant is replaced and/or scar tissue removed, it is only necessary to use the same incision. Textured wall implants tend to decrease the amount of capsulary contracture around the implant because it disorients the collagen bundles.