Houston Plastic Surgery Blog

If you have breast augmentation surgery, one of your concerns may be about how the breast implants will affect your mammograms. Breast implants may interfere with your mammogram, but there are steps you can take to make sure that your breast augmentation surgery does not affect your mammograms.

Breast Implants and Mammograms

There are steps you can take to ensure that your mammogram is a success if you have breast implants. These steps include:

• Ask your doctor for a referral to a clinic whose mammography staff has experience with breast implant patients. Experienced mammography technicians will be able to properly read your tests.
• Let the mammography technician know that you have breast implants. The technician will adjust the imaging equipment for an optimal image of your breast tissue.
• Have the breast implant placed below the muscle. You can choose to have your breast implants placed above or below the muscle. If the implants are placed above the muscle, they will most likely make reading your mammogram more difficult. Implants placed below the muscle are less likely to interfere with the mammogram.

To learn more about breast augmentation and how breast implants may interfere with mammograms, please contact our breast surgery office. We serve patients in the Houston, Texas area and are available to answer all of your questions.