What could go wrong?

All surgery carries some uncertainty and risk. When a breast augmentation is performed by a qualified Plastic Surgeon, complications are infrequent and usually minor. Still, individuals vary greatly in their anatomy, their physical reactions, and their healing abilities, and the outcome is never completely predictable. These include infection, hematoma, and skin necrosis. Infection can occur despite our normal routine of administering antibiotics at the time of surgery as well as post-operatively. This happens about one percent of the time. Signs such as pain, redness, swelling, or fever, following augmentation should be reported immediately to the hospital. Infection not reported could easily compromise the success of any surgery. If infection was to be serious and fail to respond to antibiotics, removal of the implants would be required and replacement would not be effected until such time as the infection had cleared.

Bleeding, as a result of a leak in a blood vessel will give rise to swelling and bruising of the breast. If this is slight then your body will be able to absorb it in time. If it is significant (termed hematoma, and occurs 1% of the time) then it may be necessary to drain this. Your surgeon will be able to assess this.

Skin necrosis or skin decay occurs when there is not enough blood to supply the skin. This could happen if the surgeon were to select an implant size too that was too large for the pocket created. This is extremely rare and in fact, Dr. Klapper has not experienced this problem and nor does he expect to.