A short expert commentary by Robert Whitfield MD on managing skin and breast shape after cosmetic breast implant removal. He discusses how pre-implant breast size and implant size affect post-explant appearance, options for skin excision/tightening, and the need to narrow wide breasts to avoid a flat, boxy result.
For a cosmetic patient, it really depends on how they started. If they started, you know, as an A or B cup breast, then they're typically going to revert back. Obviously, if the implant was large, that's more of a problem because it stretches out skin. So then you're, you're dealing with trying to manage skin. And there's different, you know, options. You have not so much to reshape the breast tissue, but to help with the skin. So you may excise skin to help tighten it, but, but not overdo it, because everybody will heal differently, of course. And, you know, so there's, there's ways to vary it. Today I just saw somebody who has a relatively wide breast, so that needs to be narrowed. Otherwise, when you take out their implant, they'll be flat and boxy.
