Houston Plastic Surgery Blog

The results for breast augmentation are typically long lasting. The length of time your breast augmentation results will last depends on a few factors. If you maintain your current weight and do not gain or lose an excessive amount of weight, your breast augmentation results will be long lasting.

You will want to wait to have breast augmentation until after you are finished having children, through breast-feeding, and have lost all the weight you wish to lose. Your breasts may stretch and begin to sag if you opt to have breast augmentation before you are finished bearing children and breast-feeding. Pregnancy and breast-feeding change the breasts in shape and size. Excessive weight gain also changes the breasts in the same manner as pregnancy. Excessive weight loss usually leaves the breasts with excess skin that makes the breasts sag or droop.

Breast augmentation results will be long lasting if performed after you are within ten pounds of your target weight and after you finished bearing children. Remember to eat healthy, stay active, and monitor your weight. The healthier you are, the longer your results will last.

There are rare occurrences that may require another breast surgery. These occurrences are:

• One of the implants ruptures and deflates
• You experience capsular contracture
• An infection develops
• Extreme fluctuation in your weight
• Pregnancy

Please contact our breast surgeon with any questions you may have regarding breast augmentation or any other cosmetic surgery procedure. Dr. Lapuerta will be more than happy to discuss these procedures with you in a complimentary consultation. We serve patients in the Houston, Texas area.