Forgive me for asking such an oddball (and potentially prurient) question, but it recently occurred to me:
Suppose a woman has very small breasts, and goes to a plastic surgeon to have breast augmentation. She asks for the largest size the doctor will offer.
Where do the doctors get the skin to give her larger breasts? I mean, the implants have to fit, right? And if the person was small naturally, there wouldn’t be much room to begin with.
Do they just stretch the skin that is there? Do they transplant some from some other area (I was once bitten by a dog, and had a skin graft on my nose. The doctor took skin from behind my ear)?
Just curious.
What I’ve seen from documentaries is that the implantee’s skin must stretch to fit the implant. This may be done in steps with multiple implant surgeries or possibly with implants that can be expanded with fluid over time. The idea is to perform the surgery with the smallest possible incision, usually under the breast or sometimes in the armpit. I don’t think women generally want skin transplants and would avoid that for simple enlargements. In the case of reconstruction they may have to when the original skin has been lost for some reason. One characteristic of breasts is that the skin will stretch if a woman gains weight or from hormonal swelling or from enlarged mammary glands. Apparently the glands don’t get as large as people imagine. There are other documentaries examining the post op results but I don’t watch many of those because I’m not actually attracted to the fake ones that are almost always obvious in that type of documentary.
When my sister had breast cancer 10 years, the surgeon discussed recreating her breasts after the double mastectomy. Said they would take the skin from her thighs and back. She ended up deciding to just stay breastless.
That’s a porn joke, right? ISWYDT
I had a skin cancer removed. They took some stuff to check for mestitation (sp) and shaved skin off my thigh to replaced what they removed.