Internal Bra in El Paso, TX

What Is an Internal Bra?

An internal bra is designed to add extra support for your breasts after breast augmentation. It is typically created using sutures or absorbable mesh and offers several benefits for women with breast implants. The internal bra lifts your breasts into a more youthful position and reinforces the breast implant pocket to ensure your implant stays in the correct location.

Unlike a traditional breast lift, the internal bra doesn’t involve the removal of excess skin. Instead, it tightens and boosts the breast tissue for shapely, natural-looking breasts.

Reasons You Might Need an Internal Bra After Breast Augmentation

There are several reasons you may need to consider an internal bra after breast augmentation.

Implant Malposition

Breast implant malposition is a condition where your breast implant pocket is created incorrectly or is weakened, allowing the implants to shift after placement. Lateral malposition occurs when the implants shift to the outside edges of your chest. Symmastia occurs when the implants slide to the center of your chest and create a “uni-boob.” Breast implants may also sit too high on your chest, or they may sit too low and “bottom out,” which is when they drop below the breast crease.

Sagging Breasts

Several factors can contribute to drooping breasts, including age, gravity, weight loss, pregnancy, and breastfeeding. Over time, your skin and ligaments stretch and become less able to support the weight of your breasts in the proper position on your chest, leading to ptosis, or sagging. Other causes of sagging include loss of collagen and elastin with age and reduced volume after breastfeeding or weight loss.

Improper Implant Size

When choosing the size of your breast implants, it is essential that you consider your anatomy. If you select an implant that is too large for your frame, your skin and tissues may not be able to adequately support the weight of your breasts. The skin on your breasts may become overstretched, your breasts may appear asymmetrical, and implant malposition may occur.

Understanding the Internal Bra Technique

The internal bra offers a subtle and elegant way to enhance breast shape, supporting the lower pole of your breasts to help you retain volume in the upper pole of your breasts.

“Internal bra” is a term used to describe different methods used to strengthen and support the lower portion of your breasts. Internal bra techniques include:

Prophylactic Internal Bra

A prophylactic internal bra uses absorbable mesh to support your breast implants, especially if you are experiencing sagging due to the weight of your implants or a decrease in the elasticity of your skin. Absorbable mesh is cut to fit the size and shape of your breasts and strategically placed inside the breast pocket, under your implant, like a hammock. It is then securely sutured to the chest wall. The mesh takes 12–18 months to absorb into your body, during which time your body creates new, stronger soft tissue to provide natural support for your breasts.

An absorbable mesh internal bra can be used whether your implants are placed submuscularly (below the pectoral muscle) or subglandularly (below the glandular tissue of your breast and above the pectoral muscle) to provide additional support and lift.

Internal Bra Using Sutures

If you’re not a candidate for an internal bra using absorbable mesh, there are suturing methods used to “shore up” and enhance the support of your breast implants. Sutures are strategically placed in the breast capsule, tightening it and providing a stronger foundation for your implants in the lower pole. Sutures can be placed nearly anywhere in the breast pocket to keep your breasts lifted and prevent your implants from moving out of place.

Benefits of the Internal Bra

Improved Implant Positioning

By adding support under your implants with mesh or tightening the breast pocket with sutures, your implants will stay where they’re meant to for longer, enhancing your results.

Reduced Risk of Capsular Contracture

By providing extra support for your breast implant, an internal bra can potentially reduce your risk of developing capsular contracture, which requires breast implant revision surgery to correct.

Improved Breast Shape and Symmetry

An internal bra can help ensure that your breasts stay elevated and shapely and can correct any asymmetries that may develop in your breasts, even after augmentation.

Enhanced Cleavage and Lift

Besides ensuring that your breasts remain in a youthfully perky position, an internal bra also keeps your breasts where they need to be to create optimal cleavage.

Versatility

Besides their use after breast augmentation, internal bras can be used in breast lifts and breast reductions to maximize and enhance your results.

Frequently Asked Questions About the Internal Bra

Is the internal bra used in any other procedure?

Yes. An internal bra can be used in breast augmentation revision, breast reduction, breast reconstruction, and breast lift surgeries.

Can I stop wearing a bra after my internal bra procedure?

You should continue to wear a regular bra once you’ve healed from your internal bra procedure. While the internal bra does provide added support, it is not a substitute for a regular bra, and your results will last longer when you wear a bra.

Will I be able to feel the mesh?

In some cases, yes. Until the mesh completely dissolves, you may be able to feel it externally when touching your breasts. Women with less breast tissue may also be able to feel the internal scaffolding as well until the mesh dissolves, but these are both typical occurrences.

Are internal bra results permanent?

Internal bra results are long lasting; however, you may experience some minor sagging eventually as the natural aging process progresses.

How much does an internal bra cost in El Paso?

The cost of an internal bra in El Paso varies according to several factors, including the complexity of the surgery, degree of correction necessary, technique used, and whether it is combined with other procedures. When you come in for your consultation with Dr. Agullo, he will provide you with an accurate cost.