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By Mayo Clinic staffA woman's reasons for choosing breast augmentation are highly personal. Breast augmentation may help you:
- Enhance your breast appearance if you feel your breasts are too small or you're concerned that one breast is smaller than the other
- Adjust for a reduction in the size of your breasts after pregnancy
- Reconstruct your breast after having breast surgery for cancer or other conditions
- Improve your self-image or self-confidence
The best candidate for breast augmentation is a woman looking for an improvement — but not perfection — in her appearance. Discuss your goals with your surgeon so that you can develop a realistic expectation of what breast augmentation can provide.
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- Breast implant questions and answers. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/ImplantsandProsthetics/BreastImplants/ucm063719.htm. Accessed Oct. 18, 2010.
- FDA breast implant consumer handbook - 2004 - local complications and reoperations. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/ImplantsandProsthetics/BreastImplants/ucm064106.htm. Accessed Oct. 25, 2010.
- Walsh MF (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Nov. 2, 2010.
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