A short panel discussion (YouTube video, Jan 26, 2018) where clinicians debate the practice of injecting saline into breasts as a temporary augmentation marketed as "InstaBreast" (also called "vacation breasts"). Speakers question the procedure’s duration and safety, argue it’s likely short-lived and potentially risky, and favor noninvasive alternatives such as 3D imaging and photographic examples to preview augmentation outcomes.
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You've heard it here before, Vacation breasts. We've covered it. Now it's been repackaged as instabress. Plastic surgeon Dr. Norman Rowe still talking about injecting saline into women's breasts who think they may want to have a breast augmentation so they can see what it's like. Sounds a bit odd. Ned, what's the deal?
I don't see really the relevance of this. A short, quick, relatively easy procedure injecting saline in someone's breast does have the potential for some negative sequelae and something that's going to give them a very short lived result. I think that even within a few hours, you're going to have significant absorption of that saline within your body. I just don't see that going through. That is anyway really helpful for deciding whether or not you're going to have a breast augmentation.
They say it lasts 24 hours. Is that reality?
I don't think so. I don't see how it would. Even when we have a saline implant rupture, that disappears relatively quickly.
Right. I think we all want to support our patients in giving them the appropriate expectations, but in our practices we usually use 3D imaging and give them multiple options using their own photographs to what they can actually appear like. Although the concept may be appropriate for trying to give the patient an idea, it's executed poorly. The 3D imaging is really the state of the art way to show a patient what they can achieve with breast augmentation.
Even without 3D imaging, those of us who do much volume of surgery, you can find a photograph of a previous patient that looks like the person who came in and what they look like with the different augmentation volumes.
It seems a little bit more like a gimmick than anything that really is helpful to the patients. I mean, have a big needle jammed in your breast or have 3D imaging painless and works well. You make the choice. Right. You can learn more about this on the plasticsurgerychannel.com.
