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Breast implant

A prosthesis used to alter the size, shape, and feel of a woman’s breasts for aesthetic enhancement.

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Asymmetry

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Uneven appearance between a woman's breasts in terms of size, shape, or breast level.

Retrospective study

Beauty; Breast implant

Study that begins after a medical intervention, such as breast implant surgery, has occurred. Therefore, it looks backward in time at events complications that happened in the past. For instance, ...

Scarring

Beauty; Breast implant

Formation of tissue at the incision. All wounds heal by the formation of a scar. The degree of scarring varies from person to person, and skin type is an important factor for the development of ...

Galactorrhea

Beauty; Breast implant

Inappropriate breast milk production that may occur after breast implant surgery. In some cases, the milk production stops by itself or after receiving medicine to stop milk production. In other ...

Mastopexy

Beauty; Breast implant

Surgical procedure to raise and reshape sagging breasts. Women may also have this surgery after an implant is removed and not replaced.

Visibility

Beauty; Breast implant

Visibility is when the implant can be seen through the skin, such as the valve on a saline-filled breast implant or the edge of an implant.

Inframammary fold (IMF)

Beauty; Breast implant

The lower boundary of a breast where the breast and the chest meet.

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