BREAST SURGERY — BREAST OPERATION BY VIEW PLASTIC SURGERY HOSPITAL SOUTH KOREA

- Operation Time: Around 2 Hours
- Anesthesia: General/Anesthesia
- Hospitalization: Same Day Discharge
- Suture Removal: After 10–14 Days
- Recovery: After 3–4 Days

What is breast reoperation?
The breast reoperation is performed when a patient is not satisfied with the breast shape after the operation, or there are problems such as capsular contracture, dislocation and damage of implants and changed breast shape.

Special Features of VIEW’s breast reoperation
1. Cause analysis of reoperation: the precise ultrasound examination before the surgery identifies the breast shape, structure of tissues and condition of implants and analyzes the cause of the reoperation.
2. Surgery compensating problems: The coordinated treatment of the breast surgery dream team compensates the problems in the primary surgery and upgrades the completeness of the reoperation.
3. Capsular contracture prevention system: The use of the endoscope minimizes the incision, damages to blood vessels and tissues through a precise muscle dissection for a safe surgery.
4. Volume sizing system: The system predicts the suitable breast size for the body before the surgery and decides the size of the implants through the simulation.

Timing of breast reoperation
The timing for deciding whether to perform the surgery is 6–12 months after the primary operation.
The breast tissues and shape stabilizes to some extent 6 months after the surgery but it may be performed earlier in case of severe damage and deformation of the implants depending on the patient.

Cause of breast reoperation

1. There are various causes including inflammation, hematoma (collection of blood) due to bleeding, foreign substances, hypo-dissection during surgery, lack of massage after surgery and physical constitution.

2. The asymmetry may occur due to the surgery without reflecting an individual’s features or deformation of implants.

3. The cohesive gel prosthetic is not easily damaged and even damaged prosthetic maintains its form and is not absorbed into the body. But the existing liquid silicone and saline solution bag can easily leak and change its shape.

4. Dissatisfaction with breast size and shape

The patient is not satisfied with the breast shape and size after the surgery and reoperation is performed when upper breasts look protruded or when adjusting the breast size.

TIP
The breast may have an abnormal feel or shape and their level of severity is divided up into 4 levels.

Level 1: Natural look, implants are untouchable.
Level 2: No problem in the appearance but breasts are not as soft and implants are slightly touchable.
Level 3: Hardened breasts, prosthesis is touchable and evident.
Level 4: Hard breasts, deformed implants causes pain.