The Best Breast

by Terrye Tebbetts

I must be missing something!  First we don’t know if we are going to be going to be big enough, then we don’t know how to tell people we have breast implants and are afraid of people – friends and relatives – being RUDE to us.  I copied a couple of real questions from a forum below – I am constantly amazed that in none of the talks, questions or discussions do potential patients ask or wonder, “what will my body allow safely?”  “what will look really good on me?”

There is a difference between breast enhancement and Boob Job and let’s be really clear here – there is NO in  between!

First question….

I posted earlier about picking my size with my PS yesterday….Is 492cc too big??? I tryed on the 450’s and just did not see the look that I wanted plus I am taking into account that everyone says that they look smaller once placed under the muscle. Now I am wondering if I am going to be way too big…I mean I do like the big look and I have hips and a big butt with a small waist so I think that I can balance it out but im so scared. Am I goin to be able to fit into a bathing suit top???? Please help me with your stats and your decisions so I can compare…Im 140 lbs 5′3″ and i think about a 34 B. I want to be a full D to DD. All responses will be so much appreciated!

Second post… Ok so my BA is in 13days!!!!So excited and thanks to you ladies I am feeling more and more confident in my decision with 492cc’s. At first Iwas very worried that they may be too big, but I am feeling better now. But my next fear is my boyfriends parents and family…My mom is fine with it and my grandmother is too( I dont have much more close family). But my boyfriends dad can be very honest and rude at times. Im so nervous that his family might say bad things about my decision or think that I am superficial. He coems from a family of all boys so I dont think that anyone would understand. I dont want to tell them but my boyfriend will be staying at my house for a few days to help me and I dont know what we are going to tell his parents. I just want to have them and have everything go okay and stop having boobs constantly on my brain!!!! lol

Has anyone had issues with telling people or anyone ever saying anything rude…how have you guys dealt with this???thanks so much!

My response….

How did you and your ps arrive at your size?  Have you had children – what was the change in your cup size with babies? 

If you do not ASK your TISSUE to go where is has not been before, then after surgey you just look AMAZING but if you force your tissue to a great big 492 cc implant and you are a tiny little A cup with no babies and stretch – - EVERYONE is going to know and you will have a ton of complications in the future.

That is why I ask, did your PS use High Five – measure you and help you choose a size based on your breast and your breast tissue and your breast stretch – or did you tell him a cup size, look at a photo of another woman or stick a sizer in your bra????

The ps has to work with what you bring to the OR – whether people will know and how you end up explaining it will all depend on the decisions YOU made PRE- OP.

Chosing to have breast implants can change your body in a wonderful, amazing way that you can never do on your own through diet and exercise.  They should enhance what you have, fill the empty space that babies took away – - not try to turn your body into something it has never been.  To go into surgery, plan a breast aug without employing High Five is, in my opinion, asking for trouble, miscommunication and complications long term.  Preop planning should be based on your BREAST and your Measurements for optimal results!