Life after surgery
Body image after breast surgery: a practical guide
Recognition can lag behind a technically good result. How to live in a changed chest without turning the mirror into a second surgeon.
Archive
Every article in the journal
Thirty original essays, organised so you can read by curiosity rather than by sales funnel. Each piece is written in Australian English, edited against public sources, and linked back to its topic hub.
Life after surgery
Mammograms, screening and implants in Australia
Implants change how screening is done, not whether you should do it. Displacement views, ultrasound, MRI and what to tell BreastScreen.
Life after surgery
When revision surgery is worth considering
Malposition, size regret, contracture, rupture and a lift you deferred: how to decide whether a second Sydney operation is craft or restlessness.
Life after surgery
Pregnancy, weight change and implants over a decade
Implants do not age in isolation. Skin, fat and glands keep living. What a ten-year view looks like for Sydney patients who might still have children or lose two stone.
Life after surgery
Breastfeeding after breast implants
Many people feed after augmentation. Some make less milk, especially after certain incisions or lifts. What we can say in Australian English without a guarantee.
Finding care in Sydney
Medical tourism versus having implants done in Sydney
A cheaper package overseas is not automatically a bargain. Aftercare, device registers, revision and the cost of a complication once you are back in New South Wales.
Finding care in Sydney
Questions to ask before you book an operating date
A printable list for the second consult: devices, hospitals, revision, feeding, imaging and the unromantic logistics of a Sydney theatre day.
Finding care in Sydney
Public versus private breast surgery in New South Wales
When NSW public hospitals are a door, when they are not, and how private insurance actually behaves around cosmetic and reconstructive breast work.
Finding care in Sydney
How to choose a FRACS plastic surgeon in Sydney
Titles, registers, hospitals and second opinions: a method for choosing who operates, without a ranked list or a popularity contest.
Safety, regulation and cost
Implant warranties, rupture and surveillance
Manufacturer warranties are not health insurance. How silent rupture is found, what MRI and ultrasound are for, and which costs a warranty actually meets in Australia.
Safety, regulation and cost
BIA-ALCL: an Australian briefing
Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma is uncommon, serious and tied more to certain textured devices than to silicone as a substance. What Sydney patients should watch for.
Safety, regulation and cost
Breast implant illness: what the evidence currently says
Fatigue, brain fog and joint pain are real symptoms. Tying them neatly to silicone is a harder scientific claim. An Australian briefing that refuses both dismissal and certainty.
Safety, regulation and cost
TGA, AHPRA and the Australian Breast Device Registry
The three Australian institutions that sit behind a responsible implant: how devices are listed, how advertising is policed, and why the registry is not optional paperwork.
Safety, regulation and cost
What breast implants cost in Sydney
A 2026 field guide to private quotes in New South Wales: surgeon, hospital, anaesthetic, devices, garments, time off and the revision money nobody puts on the brochure.
Recovery and aftercare
Scar care after breast surgery
Tape, silicone, sunscreen and time: how Australian scars actually mature, and which products earn a place after augmentation or a lift.
Recovery and aftercare
Capsular contracture: recognition and next steps
A capsule is normal. A tight, distorting capsule is not the result you paid for. How contracture is graded, why it happens, and what Australian patients usually do next.
Recovery and aftercare
Exercise after breast implants: a staged return
Walking is not deadlifts. A staged plan for swimming, running, yoga and upper-body work after augmentation in an Australian climate.
Recovery and aftercare
Sleeping, driving and returning to work after implants in Sydney
How to get out of bed, when to hold a steering wheel, and what a CBD commute does to a healing pec — a practical New South Wales calendar.
Recovery and aftercare
The first six weeks after breast augmentation
A week-by-week map of swelling, bras, sleeping, showers and the ordinary restrictions that decide how a Sydney result settles.
Procedures and planning
Tuberous breasts, asymmetry and congenital difference
Some chests are not a smaller version of the brochure. Constricted bases, herniated areolae and true asymmetry need a different Sydney plan than a standard enlargement.
Procedures and planning
Breast implant sizing: beyond cubic centimetres
Cup size is not a unit and cc is not a personality. A Sydney sizing session should start with base width, tissue pinch and the clothes you actually wear.
Procedures and planning
When a lift belongs with implants: augmentation-mastopexy
An implant fills. A lift repositions. Combining them in one Sydney operation can be elegant or overcrowded. Here is how to tell whether you are being sold volume as a substitute for shape.
Procedures and planning
Dual plane versus subglandular placement
Over the muscle, under the muscle, or the dual-plane compromise: how implant position changes rippling, animation and recovery for Australian chests.
Procedures and planning
Incision placement: inframammary, periareolar and transaxillary
Where the scar sits changes access, breastfeeding talk, infection chatter and what a Sydney swimsuit will show. A guide to the three common approaches.
Procedures and planning
What a thorough Sydney breast augmentation consult should include
A consult is not a quote with a handshake. In New South Wales it should cover measurements, devices, hospitals, revision, registry and the questions AHPRA expects a patient to have time to ask.
Implant types and materials
Fat transfer breast augmentation in Sydney: when it is enough
Lipofilling can soften a cleavage or add a modest cup. It cannot reliably replace an implant for everyone. Here is how Sydney surgeons talk about harvest, survival and the second session.
Implant types and materials
Implant surfaces, texture and the TGA landscape
Smooth, textured and polyurethane surfaces stopped being a matter of taste when ALCL entered Australian regulation. Here is how the TGA story changed what Sydney surgeons will put on a tray.
Implant types and materials
Implant profiles and projection, explained without the catalogue
Low, moderate, high and extra-high profiles are not cup sizes. They are how far a device stands off a given base. Here is how that geometry behaves on Sydney chests.
Implant types and materials
Anatomical versus round breast implants: who each shape suits
Teardrop and round implants are sold as personalities. In a Sydney consult they are geometry: rotation risk, upper-pole fill, and whether your own breast already supplies a slope.
Implant types and materials
Silicone versus saline breast implants in Australia
A practical comparison of silicone gel and saline implants for Australian patients: feel, rippling, rupture behaviour, TGA listings and what a Sydney consult should cover before you choose a fill.