
Ideally, every breast augmentation patient would get exactly what she wants the very first time. While this is often the case, sometimes results aren’t as expected. Even superb results will change over the years, and sometimes it’s just time for an update or implant upgrade. Whatever your reasons for considering breast implant revision, Dr. Pancholi can help. Patients come to him from across the globe for his experience and expertise in revision breast procedures, and he is known for achieving beautiful improvements even for challenging cases.
The Pancholi Cosmetic Surgery Difference: A Concierge Experience
At Pancholi Cosmetic Surgery of Las Vegas, we’ve created a luxurious, patient-focused experience where your goals and comfort take priority. Whether you’re looking to address concerns with your current implants or refine your appearance, we’re here to ensure you feel supported, informed, and cared for at every step.
What Sets Us Apart:
- Committed to Patient Safety: Dr. Pancholi prioritizes patient safety by performing surgeries in an accredited facility, backed by his extensive expertise as an author and lecturer in the field of cosmetic surgery.
- Open Communication & Support: Dr. Pancholi fosters open communication and welcomes family or close friends to join you during consultations, pre-op, and post-op appointments, ensuring you feel supported throughout your cosmetic surgery journey.
- Personalized, Natural Results: Whether it’s addressing implant issues, resizing, or improving symmetry, every breast implant revision is customized to your unique needs and aesthetic goals. Dr. Pancholi focuses on creating results that look natural and enhance your body’s proportions.
- Expert Guidance & Care: From your initial consultation through your recovery, Dr. Pancholi will be with you every step of the way. You’ll feel reassured and confident in knowing your care is in the hands of a skilled expert.
- Advanced Techniques: Using cutting-edge methods such as precise implant positioning, minimal scarring techniques, and solutions for issues like capsular contracture, Dr. Pancholi ensures a seamless, beautiful outcome.
- Renewed Confidence: Breast implant revision is more than a physical transformation—it’s an opportunity to restore your confidence and feel great about your appearance.
- Surgical Mastery: With years of expertise in breast revision surgery, Dr. Pancholi combines technical precision with artistic vision to achieve the exceptional results you deserve.
Continue reading to learn more about breast implant revision in Las Vegas, or schedule your consultation with Dr. Pancholi today. We are located in Las Vegas and proudly serve patients from Summerlin, Southwest Las Vegas, Spring Valley, Enterprise, Paradise, Henderson, Whitney, Sunrise Manor, and North Las Vegas.
Can Revision Breast Surgery in Las Vegas, NV Help Me?
With any surgery, the risk exists for less-than-ideal results. If you are considering breast implant revision surgery, know that it doesn’t mean you did anything wrong the first time you had breast augmentation.
Whether or not complications stem from having surgery performed by a less experienced surgeon, receiving misguided advice for sizing, pregnancy, weight changes, aging, or just sheer luck, you didn’t do this to yourself. With the right cosmetic surgeon, chances are that with revision surgery you will be able to get the beautiful results you were hoping for the first time around.
What Problems Can Breast Revision Surgery Address?
Whether you desire a size change or are experiencing asymmetry, deflation, or a complication from surgery, Dr. Pancholi can help you address your concerns. Some of the most common reasons for implant revision include:
How Can I Make Sure I Get the Results I Want?
Many factors are involved in improving the overall appearance of breast implants. While it’s always important to choose a cosmetic surgeon with experience in the procedure you are having, this is especially true for breast implant revision. Since your breast tissue has already been altered, you need a cosmetic breast surgeon who has the knowledge and surgical skill to achieve optimal results for your unique circumstances.
To make the necessary improvements, Dr. Pancholi takes into consideration a multitude of factors, including:
- The type of breast implant used in your initial augmentation
- How much breast tissue you have
- Skin integrity
- Your current weight, chest and rib cage contour, and proportions
- Placement and position of the breast implant
- How many breast surgeries you’ve had already
Having performed many hundreds of breast revision procedures, Dr. Pancholi has the experience, knowledge, and tools to achieve dramatic improvements even for more challenging cases.
Video Transcript
“We can help augment the size of the breast after we take the implants out, and often, we do that with fat transfer. That means we liposuction a certain area of the body and take that fat to transfer it to the breast to create a fuller or at least more voluminous breast.
Other reasons that people are taking their implants out can be that they are experiencing some level of symptomatology from their implants. This is something people call breast implant illness, and I believe it exists. I think there is a certain set of symptoms that continue to show up, and when the implants are removed, people seem to improve significantly from this.
Now, the caveat to this is that there is not a test that we can use to diagnose this. It’s not like you can take a test that will tell you definitively if you have breast implant illness. These are essentially diagnoses that are made when we haven’t been able to find another reason for the symptoms, and when we take the implants out, and people get better, this is what’s referred to as breast implant illness, or at least how we can diagnose or attribute it.”–Dr. Samir Pancholi
Whenever indicated, he will remove breast implants en bloc, which means he removes the scar tissue (capsule) and implant in one piece, with the implant still sealed inside. This ensures that all old breast implant matter is removed during surgery before a new implant is placed.
In many cases, he will incorporate Strattice Tissue Matrix to add coverage and support to weakened or thin breast tissues.
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Will Insurance Cover Breast Revision Surgery in Summerlin, NV?
As breast augmentation is considered a cosmetic procedure, your health insurance will probably not cover breast implant revision. However, both breast implant manufacturers that Dr. Pancholi utilizes, Allergan and Mentor, offer basic and premium lifetime product warranties on their breast implants for every patient who has their gummy bear, silicone gel, or saline implants. The basic warranty covers the cost of new breast implants should yours deflate or rupture.
Ready to Elevate Your Confidence?
If you are experiencing problems with your breast implants with another surgeon, we invite you to schedule a consultation with Dr. Pancholi. During this meeting, he will listen to your concerns, answer your questions about what’s involved in breast implant revision, and discuss all your options to help you get the results you desire.
Glossary
- Anesthesia: Medications used to prevent pain during surgery; can be general (inducing unconsciousness) or local (numbing a specific area).
- Breast Implant Illness (BII): A term used to describe a variety of symptoms thought to be potentially associated with breast implants, such as fatigue, chest pain, hair loss, and headaches.
- Capsular Contracture: A complication of breast augmentation where scar tissue forms around the implant, causing firmness, distortion, and sometimes pain.
- Capsulectomy: The surgical removal of the capsule of scar tissue formed around a breast implant.
- Capsulotomy: A surgical procedure that involves scoring, cutting, or releasing the capsule of scar tissue surrounding a breast implant to relieve tightness and improve comfort.
- Double Bubble Deformity: A complication where the implant sits below the natural fold of the breast, creating a double-contour appearance.
- Implant Exchange: The replacement of old breast implants with new implants.
- Implant Malposition: When a breast implant moves from its original position, causing asymmetry or distortion.
- Inframammary Fold Incision: An incision made in the natural crease under the breast, commonly used in breast implant revision surgeries.
- Mastopexy: The medical term for a breast lift, a procedure that may accompany implant revision to correct sagging.
- Pocket Revision: Surgical adjustments to the pocket that holds the breast implant, to correct implant position or change implant size.
- Rippling: Visible or palpable wrinkling of the implant seen on the skin surface, often a reason for implant revision.
- Rupture: A tear or hole in the implant’s outer shell, which can occur in both saline and silicone implants.
- Scar Tissue: Fibrous tissue that forms as a natural part of the healing process following surgery or injury. In the context of breast implants, it can sometimes form a tight or thick capsule around an implant, leading to discomfort or aesthetic concerns.
- Seroma: A collection of fluid that builds up under the surface of the skin, particularly around an implant or incision site.
- Subpectoral Plane: A placement of breast implants beneath the pectoral muscle, also known as a submuscular placement. This positioning can impact the appearance and feel of the breast implant.
- Symmastia: A rare complication where implants are placed too close together, creating the appearance of a single large breast.
- Symmastia Correction: A surgical procedure to correct symmastia, restoring the natural separation between the breasts.
References
- Navanjun S. Grewal, Jack Fisher, Why Do Patients Seek Revisionary Breast Surgery?, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Volume 33, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 237–244, https://doi.org/10.1177/1090820X12472693
- Forster NA, Künzi W, Giovanoli P. The reoperation cascade after breast augmentation with implants: what the patient needs to know. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery. 2013 Mar;66(3):313-22. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2012.09.033.
- Spear SL, Low M, Ducic I. Revision augmentation mastopexy: indications, operations, and outcomes. Annals of Plastic Surgery. 2003 Dec;51(6):540-6. doi: 10.1097/01.sap.0000096450.04443.be.
- Clough R, Darragh L, Maclennan L, O’Donoghue JM. Revision Surgery to Improve Cosmesis with Immediate Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction. JPRAS Open. 2021 May 21;29:106-112. doi: 10.1016/j.jpra.2021.04.006.