Dr. Robert Whitfield breaks down breast implant removal recovery: expect early improvements at one week and one month, but wait three months to see real progress. Most patients overdo it early. Lymphatic drainage devices and therapy help, with major changes continuing through six, nine, and twelve months.
Feel completely better. And my answer is always that. How long did you have the problem if you had implants? 10 years. I can't solve that problem in an hour in the operating room. I can do your surgery. I can put you on the correct path to get better and help your body heal itself. And I like to use the three month window to really evaluate how well someone is doing. Because at a week, obviously just had surgery, at a month, people are better. But invariably you have to get back to life. And in reality, most of us do too much. We try to do too much after we have something as complicated as a surgery like this. Now we have this great device to help enhance lymphatic drainage, in addition to our wonderful therapist who I'm overworking, but nonetheless, we found more ways to help you recover once again, trying to make bigger difference as quickly as possible for you in recovery. So when you get to that three month window, you're really, really seeing change. And then at six months and nine months and 12 months, I'm really looking at how much response did we get in the tissue, say, if we didn't do a fat transfer? Are the aesthetics where we want them? Is everybody comfortable?
