Breast Reconstruction

Often an inflatable saline implant called an expander is placed as a first stage. At the second stage, the expander is removed and replaced with the permanent implant. That implant can be saline, gel, or shaped gel. The shaped implants create a “tear drop” shape and have more projection at the bottom of the implant and less at the top. The shape of the opposite breast can be modified by reduction, uplift, or augmentation as part of the procedure to gain symmetry.