I had surgery in March, and it’s been 6 months now. I’m writing this in case what I learned after surgery and why I decided on revision surgery might help.
Stats 164/43 rib cage 67 300 cc on both left and right, transaxillary incision, Motiva Demi
First of all, I have a very thin upper body. Even if I gain weight, it only goes to my lower body?
First-surgery clinic The consultation was mostly not bad, and it’s a well-known clinic here, and someone I know also had surgery here.
But I said I didn’t want to write a review, so I’d proceed without review conditions, and they told me to pay 1 million won more (I thought this was too much). I paid more on the day of surgery and proceeded.
Aftercare and scar care are free up to 1 year. Caps is free 2-3 times, then costs extra. (I felt the texture wasn’t great, so I paid 150,000 won for 3 additional sessions.)
After the first surgery, the pain wasn’t severe, and I think I was most swollen on the second day. But daily life was manageable.
Now the surgical discomfort has gone away, and from 3 months, problems slowly started to show.
1. Because I’m thin, rippling is slightly visible on the inner and outer sides of the breasts. But as the capsule gradually formed, it actually became less visible over time. Still, it’s not invisible.
2. The cleavage gap is not good. Just when I initially felt they seemed too far apart, I went for a follow-up and they gave me a compression band and told me to wear it well. Still, it didn’t have much effect, and two fingers fit in between. If I wear a bra and gather them, they do come together, but it makes a Y shape.
3. Animation deformity I didn’t even know what animation deformity was, but at some point, when opening and closing a taxi door, etc., when I put force into my chest, I could feel the implant movement very clearly. I looked it up and they call it animation deformity.. If surgery is done with the dual-plane technique, the muscle is inevitably cut and the implant is placed under it, so I think it happened as I gradually recovered and the muscle started functioning again. But for thin people like me, if we do subfascial placement, they say it looks too obvious aesthetically, and because there’s not much tissue, the feel isn’t great either.. so I gave up.
4. Upper fullness They say time is the medicine.. but no matter how I look at it, it’s a bit..
5. Scars Some people who do transaxillary incision say after only 6 months it’s almost like there’s nothing, but mine is obvious And the left side is also slightly raised.
It may just be that I haven’t gotten used to having something I didn’t have before, but the fact that something is inside itself is also a bit uncomfortable, and there’s definitely some foreign-body sensation. Sleeping is uncomfortable too..
And upper fullness isn’t going away quickly, there’s rippling, and the breasts are far apart. From what I see, I think the breast pocket dissection may have been a bit insufficient.
When I went to the clinic and talked about rippling, the wide gap between the breasts, and animation deformity, all I heard was that it can happen because I’m very thin, and they said even if they’re far apart, it’s fine as long as they gather well when brought together.
But to show the doctor the animation deformity, I had to put force in and show the implant moving.. I was a little embarrassed, so I didn’t tense as much? Then they said there are many people worse than me lol.. They said there are even people where it shoots off to the side, and told me mine wasn’t severe.
Anyway
I didn’t research enough before my first surgery, so there were more things I only learned after surgery. For revision surgery, I’ve narrowed it down to ㄷㅌ, ㄱㄹ, ㅂㅂ, ㅇㅇ, ㄷㅅㅎ, ㅇㄴㄱㅁ, about this many, but I’m debating whether to go to all the consultations or not.
And I’m thinking of reducing the size drastically to around 210-230.
I learned this while reading reviews: I like breasts that sit slightly lower, and usually, rather than transaxillary incision, inframammary incision seems to create the sagging feeling I want better. Still, since there’s already an incision site, I’m thinking of doing the revision through the transaxillary incision, and during consultations I plan to strongly appeal the image I’m aiming for.
What I want to say to people planning surgery is that everyone’s body type, weight, and skin/tissue quality are different, so I think it’s good to compare carefully while reading reviews and match your own aesthetic goal well with the aesthetic the director has in mind.
And especially thin people like me need to be more careful, I think.
If you don’t have much natural breast tissue, it tends to look more obviously surgical, and things that could be called side effects, whether rippling or anything else, seem to stand out more.
I wrote this before seriously going around for revision consultations in case it helps. Ask if you’re curious about anything!
This review is a surgery review pursuing a natural look.