Natural Looking Breast Implants: Everything You Need to Know

If you’re interested in enhancing your breasts via a breast augmentation procedure but want the most natural looking results, you have options. Women who want the most natural looking breast augmentation can achieve their aesthetic goals when they work with an experienced surgeon to customize their procedure and choose the most natural looking breast implants. Choosing the right plastic surgeon and the right breast implants is key to achieving the most natural looking results.

What Is a Breast Augmentation?

Breast augmentation with breast implants is one of the most popular breast enhancement surgeries. It’s a customized procedure that allows women to increase the size of the breasts and improve breast shape, profile, and proportions. It’s a customizable procedure that will deliver the best and most natural results when performed by a board-certified plastic surgeon.

A breast augmentation can be performed with or without implants and independently or in combination with other plastic surgery procedures, including a tummy tuck, breast lift, liposuction, facelift, neck lift, and more. When you meet with your surgeon during your initial consultation, you can discuss combining their procedure with other surgeries so that you can achieve your desired results through one scheduled surgical appointment.

The Natural Breast Augmentation Options: Customizing Your Breast Augmentation

The first step in the breast augmentation surgery process is meeting with a surgeon who can confirm your surgical eligibility and give you details about the breast augmentation options. At this consultation, you can discuss your goals and let the plastic surgeon know that you want a natural looking breast augmentation so he can help tailor your procedure with the right implants. That way, you can ensure that your final results look and feel the most like natural breasts.

Choosing Between Saline Breast Implants and Silicone Breast Implants

There are two primary types of breast implants that women can choose from to achieve the most natural looking breast enhancement: silicone implants and saline breast implants. Silicone breast implants are made with a silicone gel that resembles natural female breasts, which is why they are often referred to as anatomical breast implants.

Saline implants are different from silicone implants in that they’re made with a silicone shell but filled with sterile salt water. The surgeon will fill the saline breast implants with the sterile salt water until they reach the patient’s desired implant size. Saline implants can look very natural, are available as round implants and in teardrop shapes, and are also considered anatomical implants.

Gummy Bear Breast Implants

Gummy bear breast implants are a type of silicone implants that are made of a cohesive silicone gel. The silicone gel inside the gummy bear implants remains stable and doesn’t wrinkle or move from position over time. These implants are natural looking breast implants because the cohesive gel inside creates a natural shape and natural look.

Women who want a round or teardrop shaped implant with a silicone gel often opt for the gummy bear implant so they can achieve the most natural appearance.

Choosing Your Breast Implant Shape

Silicone implants and saline implants come in different shapes. Patients will have the option of round implants or teardrop implants. Round implants don’t have the most natural shape, but they do look more natural on women with specific body types.

Teardrop implants are known as anatomical implants and are the most popular as surgeons can use them to create the most natural looking breast shape on most women.

Choosing Your Breast Implant Profile and Size

There’s no specific implant size that surgeons use to create the most natural look. Each surgical treatment plan is designed based on the patient’s goals and needs. Most patients who want larger breasts also want them to feel natural. It’s important that you look to your surgeon to help you choose the right breast implant type, profile, and size.

Your surgeon will evaluate your frame and discuss your desired results and then create a surgical treatment plan that will help you achieve the most natural looking results. Those who want more volume may benefit from larger implants, while those who want a natural enhancement may choose a smaller, shaped implant to improve breast profile.

Choosing Your Breast Implant Placement

Another aspect of customizing breast implants is choosing implant placement. Regardless of whether you choose silicone or saline implants, you’ll need to work with your surgeon to determine surgical placement. There are three primary placement options: subglandular, submuscular, and dual plane.

With subglandular placement, the surgeon inserts the breast implants between the breast tissue and the pectoral muscle, while submuscular involves placing the implants beneath the muscle. Dual plane placement refers to the approach that combines the approaches of the submuscular and subglandular placement.

Frequently Asked Questions

How Can I Increase Natural Breast Tissue Without an Implant?

The fat transfer breast augmentation is an alternative option for women who want to enhance existing breast tissue and increase breast size without using implants to do so. Some women may not qualify for a typical breast augmentation with implants and instead opt for a fat transfer breast augmentation.

Others may not want to get implants for various reasons, and this alternative option will increase breast volume a full cup size or more using completely natural methods to do so.

How It Works

This procedure involves taking fat from a donor site on the body, which is an area that has stubborn fat that doesn’t respond to diet and exercise, and then injecting it into the breasts to add more breast tissue.

The surgeon will use liposuction techniques to remove an adequate amount of stubborn fat from the donor site, prepare the fat cells, and then inject them into the breasts. This method of breast augmentation delivers extremely natural results since it uses the patient’s natural fat to enhance the breasts, doesn’t create any scar tissue, and delivers permanent results.

Who It’s Right For

Patients interested in a fat transfer breast augmentation must be in good health and have enough excess fat in a donor area like the abdomen, arms, legs, hips, thighs, or buttocks, that can be removed, cleaned, prepared, and injected into the breasts.

This method of natural breast augmentation will increase natural breast tissue, adding approximately one cup size. However, it won’t deliver the same results as breast implants would. As a result, women must have realistic expectations about the fat transfer process and the results before moving forward.

What Is a Breast Lift?

The breast lift is a procedure that women often combine with their breast augmentation with breast implants to lift their breasts higher on the chest wall. It can also be performed on its own to restore a youthful appearance to the breasts to meet the needs of those who want a natural look or want to simply rejuvenate their breasts without using breast implants.

What Are the Benefits of Combining It With Breast Enhancement Surgery?

One of the benefits of combining this procedure with breast augmentation is that it addresses skin laxity and the effects of gravity on the breasts. It uses surgical techniques to lift them higher up on the chest so that the breast implants are in an optimal position. Combining these procedures allows patients to achieve the best breast augmentation result and prevents drooping breasts or an unnatural appearance.

If you’re interested in a natural breast augmentation with breast implants, we can help. Our world-renowned surgeon, Dr. Nir, is known for helping patients choose the right implants that look and feel natural yet also enhance their appearance and make them feel more confident about their bodies. Contact Palms Wellington Plastic Surgery in Wellington, FL, to learn more about breast augmentation and to schedule your initial consultation.