A surgeon explains that breast implants can flip when the pocket stretches too much, usually from oversized implants. You'll notice a ridge on the breast and loss of softness. The fix is either manually flipping it back or surgically tightening the pocket.
Do your implants flip? At First Wine, we're constantly flipping, like—
Yes, implants can move inside the body. This typically means that the implant pocket is bigger than the actual implant. So that can happen with time or sometimes with really large implants where it actually stretches it out, and then you get in a certain position and it can actually flip. So a lot of times I get patients come in and their, their breasts look a little bit— there's a ridge right here, and I'll actually go and I'll flip the implant back through their breast, which is a little bit complicated and doesn't always work.. But when we do, you'll also— you'll see the softness settle back in. And yeah, sometimes they can go like that, but that generally means your pocket is way too big and you may want to consider getting a pocket repair.
