A short YouTube video (Robert Whitfield MD, Feb 15, 2025) describing why subglandular (above-the-muscle) breast implant placement often produces an easier, smoother recovery for patients, and mentioning cosmetic trade-offs such as increased implant visibility. The speaker emphasizes technical simplicity of avoiding muscle dissection and rib-cage tissue manipulation.
It relates to, like, who's going to have probably the smoothest, easiest recovery. Recovery is, of course, for us, technically, it's much easier if the implants above the muscle, because when you're not removing the tissue from the rib cage and adjusting the muscle, the patient's recovery is much, much easier. So that's, you know, if you had your druthers, you know. Yes. Every day, that would be a much easier task. You know, for the surgeons. People don't do that technically all the time. Or in this country, it's probably a very small percentage because the implant size would become more and more noticeable because it's above the muscle. They wouldn't be as hidden. So that's one potential downside.
