For the price that ranges from US$4,000 - US$10,000, breast augmentation operations are such an expensive undertaking and naturally you would not want this amount of money to just go down the drain. You would, of course, expect the best of quality of the results from the procedure performed on your breasts. But even with that amount of money, anything could go wrong in the surgery especially if you chose to deal with a breast implant surgeon that you haven't the chance to trust with. To prevent you this dilemma, make sure that you have researched extensively on the background of the physician in all aspects. Your patience in looking for the most trusted breast implant surgeons will pay off in the end and there will be no regrets to happen after the implant procedure.

Although breast augmentation has been in the industry and been popular to make women of 19 - 34 years happy and contented with the change on their physical attribute upon the surgery, there is nothing perfect on the results that you should expect. More often, the desired result you specified into your breast implant surgeon is not the actual thing that would happen after the operation. A slight difference is always to be expected as your choice of size and style will not necessarily materialize in the end. Breast implants will normally increase the size of your breasts as well as enhance them but they would not perfect them. This is why before you are going to be the best candidate for the breast augmentation you will be extensively evaluated by your physician, physically- and psychologically-wise

What are the objectives of breast implant?

First, the reason why women would undergo breast implant procedure is obviously to enhance their breasts. Size and shape are always the factors taken into account why breast implants are carried on. But more specifically, the purposes of breast implant surgeries are the following:

* To enhance your self-esteem;

* To make your breasts more proportionate with your body type;

* To enlarge or reshape your breasts after your pregnancy or breastfeeding;

* To balance if your breasts are asymmetrical; and

* To reconstruct your breasts after your breast removal.

Side effects of breast implants

There are minor details of side effects that the patient may go through after the procedure. These will include initial discomfort such as: bruising, tenderness, swelling, breast pains, and scarring. This problem is usually treated by the doctor by prescribing the patient with some medication to alleviate the pain.

Possible complication

As any other surgery performed, complications may arise after your breast implant operation. The most common complaint of the patients is the occurrence of capsular contracture, usually a hardening of the breast. This happens when the capsule or scar around your implant begins to squeeze down or tighten. The soft implant on your breasts tends to feel hard, causing your encapsulated breast implants.

The doctors treat this problem through removing encapsulated breast implants, or through scoring of your scar tissue around the implant. This means additional surgery is going to be performed on you again to remove the scar tissue. In some cases, the doctor would not only have to remove your encapsulated breast implants but would to remove your breast implants. They will be replaced naturally and this means more surgeries on your part.

The operation may result to excessive bleeding that will cause pains and swelling. If worse comes to worst, the patient can contract an infection around the breast implant. This may not seem a very good idea on the patients but recently there have been studies conducted to show the likelihood of the complication to reduce if along the breast implant operation antibacterial agents are going to be treated.