- Areola: The skin surrounding the nipple with differing pigmentation.
- Augmentation Mammaplasty: Breast enhancement and enlargement or breast improvement by surgery.
- Breast Augmentation: Referred to as augmentation mammaplasty as well; breast enlargement or breast enhancement by surgical treatment.
- Bust Implants: Medical gadgets put in your body to improve an existing bust size or to rebuild your bust. Breast implants fall under 2 categories: saline breast implants and silicone breast implants.
- Capsular Contracture: A problem of bust implant surgical treatment which occurs when mark cells that typically forms around the implant tightens and presses the implant and becomes company.
- General anesthesia: Drugs and/or gases used throughout an operation to ease discomfort and alter consciousness.
- Hematoma: Blood pooling below the skin.
- Inframammary Incision: The incision created in the fold under the breast.
- Intravenous Sedation: The sedatives administered with injection into a vein to assist you relax.
- Local Anesthesia: A medicine injected directly to the spot of a cut throughout an operation to alleviate discomfort.
- Mammogram: An x-ray photo of the breast.
- Mastectomy: The removal of breast tissue, typically to clear the body of cancer cells.
- MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; a completely painless test to see tissue much like an x-ray.
- Periareolar incision: A cut made at the edge of the areola.
- Saline implants: Breast implants that are filled with salt water.
- Silicone implants: the breast implants filled with an elastic gel.
- Submammary or subglandular positioning: Breast implants placed directly behind the breast tissue, over the pectoral muscle.
- Submuscular or subpectoral positioning: the breast implants placed under the pectoral muscle, which is found in between the breast tissue and chest wall.
- Sutures: Stitches utilized by cosmetic surgeons to hold skin and tissue together.
- Transaxillary cut: A cut made in the underarm area.
- Ultrasound: A diagnostic treatment that projects high frequency sound waves into the body and records the echoes as images.
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