African American Breast Augmentation

Plastic surgery is on the rise among patients with skin of color, especially African Americans who had nearly 1.6 million plastic surgery procedures in 2017.

What’s more, breast augmentation was one of the most-requested procedures for this group of patients.

If you are considering African American breast augmentation, continue reading to learn all about the treatment, including how to minimize risks that are unique to women with skin of color and maximize results.

What Is Breast Augmentation?

Breast augmentation is a surgical procedure designed to enhance breast shape, size, projection, and symmetry through silicone, saline, or cohesive gel implants.

It’s well-suited for women who wish to accentuate their curves or those who have experienced volume loss due to pregnancy, weight loss, or aging.

What Are Some Unique Considerations for African American Breast Augmentation?

To start, it’s important for patients to seek a board-certified plastic surgeon who has extensive experience with African American breast augmentation and can help women enhance their physique, while retaining their ethnic identities.

The surgeon should also create a customized treatment plan that aims to minimize keloids and hypertrophic scarring – two unique considerations for African American breast augmentation.

Keloids are raised, red nodules that are the result of excessive scar tissue. They occur at the site of an injury and, over a period of weeks to months, can expand beyond the initial wound.

Hypertrophic scars have many of the same characteristics as keloids. However, they present more frequently, are smaller, and are more likely to fade with time.

How to Minimize Scarring with African American Breast Augmentation?

One of the best ways to minimize scarring with African American breast augmentation is by making incisions as small and discrete as possible.

Several viable surgical approaches include: Trans-umbilical approach with an incision at the navel; Peri-areola approach with an incision made half-way around the edge of the areola; and Transaxillary approach with an incision in the fold of the underarm.

Interested in African American Breast Augmentation?

If you are considering breast augmentation, please call our office to schedule a comprehensive consultation with Dr. Kelly Bolden, our highly-skilled and experienced board-certified plastic surgeon.