After enjoying a wonderful but all too short vacation with my family, I ventured back into the world of breast augmentation today to find that the battle over cup size and breast implants and what makes what size is still raging - - and that the number of disappointments and unhappy patients is still rising.
Let's think back to the last shopping trip you went on to buy new bras....was it at Victoria's Secret? Or maybe it was at Fredrick's of Hollywood? Or maybe it was at your favorite department store? Or maybe it was even at Target or Walmart? How many bras from the same designer and same style did you try on before finding one that fit you like you wanted it to? Did you try on other brands? If so, did you wear the same size? Now, if you don't remember, there's a really simple way to jog your memory. Go look through your bra drawer - how many different styles, designers, and sizes are in that drawer? The point here is that there is NO standard for the measurement of cup size in fashion. So if you think you like the way a Victoria Secret 34 C push up wonder bra would make you look and that is what you ask your surgeon for, how does he or she hit that number when there is no way to quantify what that is in a given volume for a given patient? And who's to say that by the time you can buy new bras after your breast augmentation surgery, usually three months post op, that good old Victoria won't have changed that style up and bit and then then bra doesn't fit you like you dreamed when you go to buy it. When it doesn't fit, when you are not a VS 34 C, are you then automatically unhappy with your breast implants? If you fit into a D - will you want to be smaller? Or if you find a B that makes you look amazing, but becasue it is a B, will you go back to the surgeon and ask for bigger breast implants? What if you go to Target and the first bra you find that fits is actually a 34 C, but becasue the VS model didn't fit, are you still unhappy?
When patients and surgeons plan surgical operations based on subjective criteria - things that can change or have no definition - both patient and surgeon will be chasing their tails looking for good results and satisfaction for a very long time because in that subjective - full C, small B world, satisfaction with the result is elusive and unattainable and actually, can prove to be very dangerous for the patient in the end.
Let's think back to the last shopping trip you went on to buy new bras....was it at Victoria's Secret? Or maybe it was at Fredrick's of Hollywood? Or maybe it was at your favorite department store? Or maybe it was even at Target or Walmart? How many bras from the same designer and same style did you try on before finding one that fit you like you wanted it to? Did you try on other brands? If so, did you wear the same size? Now, if you don't remember, there's a really simple way to jog your memory. Go look through your bra drawer - how many different styles, designers, and sizes are in that drawer? The point here is that there is NO standard for the measurement of cup size in fashion. So if you think you like the way a Victoria Secret 34 C push up wonder bra would make you look and that is what you ask your surgeon for, how does he or she hit that number when there is no way to quantify what that is in a given volume for a given patient? And who's to say that by the time you can buy new bras after your breast augmentation surgery, usually three months post op, that good old Victoria won't have changed that style up and bit and then then bra doesn't fit you like you dreamed when you go to buy it. When it doesn't fit, when you are not a VS 34 C, are you then automatically unhappy with your breast implants? If you fit into a D - will you want to be smaller? Or if you find a B that makes you look amazing, but becasue it is a B, will you go back to the surgeon and ask for bigger breast implants? What if you go to Target and the first bra you find that fits is actually a 34 C, but becasue the VS model didn't fit, are you still unhappy?
When patients and surgeons plan surgical operations based on subjective criteria - things that can change or have no definition - both patient and surgeon will be chasing their tails looking for good results and satisfaction for a very long time because in that subjective - full C, small B world, satisfaction with the result is elusive and unattainable and actually, can prove to be very dangerous for the patient in the end.
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