What amount of breast tissue does the speaker cite as a threshold for choosing on-top placement?

Name: Breast Implants: On Top Or Underneath?
Uploaded: 2024-05-29T12:00:50+00:00
Duration: 48 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains when to place breast implants on top of the muscle versus underneath. On-top placement causes less pain and bleeding, looks more…

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Breast Implants: On Top Or Underneath?

29 May 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains when to place breast implants on top of the muscle versus underneath. On-top placement causes less pain and bleeding, looks more natural, and avoids distortion from muscle movement, but requires at least an inch of existing breast tissue. Under-the-muscle placement is reserved for patients with very limited tissue.

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If you can pinch more than an inch of breast tissue, generally the surgeon will place the implant on top of the muscle.

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So what's the advantage or disadvantage of underneath the muscle or on top of the muscle? The on top of muscle is typically a better surgery now, not 10 years ago. Now it's a better surgery because there's less motion when you're moving your muscles. So a woman has implants on the muscle, she works out, the implants kind of distort the surgery. Hurts more. It's got a little bit more complication rate, a little bit more pain afterwards than on top of the muscle. On top of the muscle hurts less. Less bleeding. They look a little bit more natural in most cases if there's enough tissue. So the determination for under or over the muscle is made by your surgeon based on how much tissue you have. If you can pinch more than inch of breast tissue, generally we're going to go on top of the muscle now, again, not 10 years ago, they wrinkled too much. The current ones, they're good for on top of the muscle. For women have a reasonable amount of breast tissue. If your breast tissue is very, very limited, there's almost nothing there, then yes, it does have to go underneath the muscle.