The first is thin tissue. Rippling never happens in overweight patients, but it can happen to patients of normal weight who have little of their own breast tissue. Patients will report rippling coming or going with the gain or loss of even a few pounds. Dr. Teitelbaum once had a frantic call from a patient who was a dancer in a musical that was touring the country. She said she had been dancing so much and eating so little that she had developed distressing rippling. What could she do, she wondered? The answer was not surgery; it was gaining a few pounds. Telling a patient in Southern California to gain weight is not something that goes over so well with patients, but that is the most reliable method to treat rippling - and the least expensive and least risky as well.
Rippling
Of all the problems that a breast augmentation can have, perhaps rippling is the condition that makes patients the most miserable. When thin women bend over, it is not uncommon to see some rippling in the lower outer breast. However, when the problem involves the upper inner breast, or if the entire breast has an unnatural and excessively rippled feel, then that is a problem that justifies consideration for breast revision surgery.
Dr. Teitelbaum revises unsatisfactory breast augmentation procedures with expert-level precision. His understanding of the anatomy of the breasts and the ways to achieve the optimal aesthetic make him one of the most trusted surgeons for breast revision surgery. You may have rippling in your breasts, but you don't have to live with it. Dr. Teitelbaum offers an honest approach to help you achieve results that look natural.
In this guide for surgeons Dr. Teitelbaum describes the powerful techniques he helped develop for using ADM’s in difficult breast augmentation revisions.
There are three reasons rippling develops:
