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.
The consult
Procedures and planning
A good plan is slower than a quote. These essays walk through the questions a thorough Sydney consult should survive, and the anatomy that makes two people with the same implant look nothing alike.
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.