Breast gap after breast augmentation, what is the cause?

Breast augmentation with cleavage is a condition that occurs when the two breasts stick together, causing loss of cleavage.

Most women who decide to have breast augmentation always prefer breasts with close cleavage, creating a sexy shape. However, depending on the person's specific anatomical structure, if the surgeon tries to create a chest cavity that is too wide towards the inside of the sternum to place the breast implants close together, placing the breast implants too large or the customer wearing a shaping bra that presses too hard inside to achieve the desired cleavage... will lead to complications of breast augmentation with open cleavage.

Below is the sharing of Master, Doctor Ho Cao Vu, currently working at Cho Ray Hospital, about some causes of breast augmentation with gap due to surgical methods and incorrect care of customers after breast implant placement.

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Choosing a breast implant that is too large for your body's anatomical structure

Each person has a different anatomical structure, the distance between the two breasts, from the shoulder blade to the nipple, the nipple to the lower edge, from the nipple to the outer and inner edges are not the same and the rib cage is uneven... Therefore, if the breast implant is too large and not suitable for the body, it will lead to many risks, of which cleft breast is one of the common complications.

Choosing the right breast implant for your body can bring long-lasting, balanced beauty and minimize post-surgical complications.

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Creating a pocket that is too wide towards the sternum

The cleavage is the point where the skin attaches to the sternum. When the surgeon creates a pocket that is too wide towards the sternum, the skin will be stretched too much, the two breast pockets will move closer together and lead to the breasts being fused together, and the two nipples will point to the sides.

Sometimes, the cause of open breasts comes from two factors: the pocket is too wide and the breast implant is too large.

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Too much dissection during surgery

When too much tissue is removed to create a pocket for the implant, the closer it gets to the edge of the breast to create a cleavage, the amount of soft tissue covering the implant will be thinner and when it reaches the edge, only the skin will cover it. If the tissue is removed too much towards the middle of the chest wall, over time the pocket will expand, and the breast implant will tend to move towards the sternum.

If the dissection is too far to the outer edge of the sternum, the skin above can separate from the bone surface, and the inner edges of the breasts will touch each other, creating a cleft breast.

Incorrect surgical indication

In many cases, it is not possible to create a cleavage as close as the customer wants. If the surgeon follows the customer's request but the surgical indication is incorrect, it will cause late complications. For breasts with a rib cage structure that is far apart, intentionally creating a cleavage will cause complications of open cleavage.

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Wearing the wrong shapewear for the first 6 - 8 weeks

Wearing a shaping bra that is too tight to create a gap, pushing the two outer edges of the breasts inward too much will lead to compression towards the sternum, creating a gap in the chest. Therefore, customers need to follow the process of wearing a shaping bra in stages as required by the surgeon, do not arbitrarily change the way of wearing the bra, causing the gap in the chest.

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Below is a case of a Vietnamese overseas customer who had breast augmentation twice. The first time the implant was placed 10 years ago, and the breast implant was removed once. Then, the second time the implant was placed on the outer edge of the incision and now she has a gap in her breast, a wide pocket for the implant, leading to the breast implant falling out and a keloid scar from the old incision.

She was referred to consult and perform surgery to remove breast implants and reconstruct the breasts, adjust the leaky breasts and place new implants. During the surgery, the doctor cut the skin along the nipple line to take out the old Establish Ment Sz 355cc textured breast implant, sutured and reshaped the chest cavity to fit the new implant size, and cut out the ugly scar for cosmetic stitches.

In cases of cleft breast, Master, Doctor Ho Cao Vu said: " To heal cleft breast, surgery is required at a specialized general hospital as a major surgery, ensuring the safety of the customer and in many cases, the pocket must be recreated to fit or the breast implant must be replaced ." Therefore, women should consider choosing the surgical method and breast implant that is suitable for their body.

MSc. Dr. Ho Cao Vu graduated with a master's degree from Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, currently working at Cho Ray Hospital, specializing in cosmetic plastic surgery and benign and malignant pathology surgery.
Dr. Vu has more than 10 years of experience and has performed more than 1,000 cosmetic and plastic surgeries using the Harmonic knife, along with many cases of breast correction, misalignment, open breast, exposed breast, ruptured breast, healing of severe grade 3, 4 fibrosis... In 2010, Dr. Ho Cao Vu underwent direct training at the Department of Plastic Surgery of MD Aderson Cancer Center Hospital (Houston, Texas, USA) with Professor David Chang as direct instructor.

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