One-Day Recovery Breast Augmentation – The Process

Each of the above processes is important, however, patient education is unfortunately often neglected. Even though the surgical procedure may be performed flawlessly from a technical standpoint, without proper pre-operative education the patient will not have an ideal outcome. In fact, one of the main purposes of this website is to provide patient education. The goals of the educational sub-process are:

1. Educate the patient on the practice philosophy. It is essential that the patient understand the rationale for decisions made regarding her breast augmentation procedure. She not only needs to understand how and why the surgery will be conducted a certain way, but also for the patient to assume mutual responsibility that the implant will be selected based on her chosen preferences and in accordance with her breast dimensions and tissue.

2. Via direct doctor-patient interaction, the patient will review her own photographs and understand which key aspects of her augmentation surgery should and will be addressed pre-operatively. She will understand basic concepts including the fact that no patient is 100% symmetric and understand the limitations in correcting these asymmetries, reasons for implant palpability and the likelihood of shape changes in the breasts with time.

3. She will have an expectation of approximately a 98% chance of returning to most normal activities of daily living within 24 hours, 97% chance of requiring nothing more than tylenol or ibuprofen for post-operative discomfort after surgery and a 99+% chance of being able to raise her arms above her head after surgery before leaving our surgical facility.