INNOVATIVE NEW CONCEPTS IN AUGMENTATIVE BREAST SURGERY

The female breast is seen as a badge of feminine beauty in our society . While it can vary over time and with fashions, the perfect breast wi ll always be symmetrically balanced and proportionate to the rest of t he body. To create an aesthetic and symmetrically balanced breast usin g implants to enhance them is not an easy task. Surgery must combine t he concepts of an ideal breast with the desires of the patient in term s of size. The satisfactory breast should remain soft, well positioned , and mobile to respond to gravity and postural changes. In attempting to construct an ''ideal breast,'' certain basic aesthetic anatomical proportions should be taken into account: natural positioning of the b reast in the thorax; symmetry; the position of the nipple-areola compl ex as the focal point of the breast in the frontal view; a side profil e of the breast with a natural soft fall; and, overall, the position o f the new inframammary crease in the standing position, while lying do wn, and while moving.