1.         Your surgeon should have a large inventory of different size and shape breast implants available in the operating room.  Surgeons who do a lot of breast augmentations have this inventory provided by the manufacturers.

2.         If an implant inventory is available, then the plastic surgeon can put sterile disposable implant sizers in your breast pockets during surgery to see what a particular implant actually looks like when it is inside you.  This is the only way to make a choice without the chance of making an error.  An implant sizer costs only $45 and it takes all of the guess work out.

3.         We look at the appearance of your breasts with the implant sizers in place with you in the upright position.  Of course, all of this is done while you are still under anesthesia.  Only in the upright position can the actual size, shape and symmetry of the breasts be accurately judged.

4.         When the best size has been determined by this process, the implant sizers are discarded, and only then are the correct breast implants opened from the operating room inventory and put inside your breasts to complete the operation.