A common side effect of breast augmentation is that the breasts may not look the way the patient intended them to look post-surgery. In other words, it’s fairly common for women to be unhappy with the look of their new breasts. This may be due to problems that have manifested after having surgery in either appearance or physical sensation.
Some of these problems include lopsided breasts, a change in physical sensation of the breast (such as numbness in the nipples), infection from surgery, and pain in the breast. These types of problems that relate to issues in the breast area caused by the implants are known as “local complications”.
It’s fairly common for patients of breast augmentation to then need additional surgery to either see the results they wanted to see (as in the physical appearance of the breasts) or fix problems that the first surgery caused, such as breast pain.
In one study, nearly half the women with silicone gel implants and nearly a quarter with the saline implants had to attend to 1 or more reconstructive breast operations within 36 months of their initial surgery.
As in the case with nearly all breast augmentation cost and surgery procedure, health insurance companies rarely will cover these expenses, no matter if they present a health concern to the woman’s life or simply are an aesthetic issue. This means once again that breast augmentation cost is much more than simply the first time expense for the original surgery. Certainly not everyone who receives implants will need a second surgery to fix the first, but the data shows it’s fairly common, and certainly for too common to simply dismiss it as “something that won’t happen to me”.
The cost of such surgeries vary greatly depending on the problems present and what the need is for the additional surgeries. However, we can estimate that such surgeries would cost at least $5,000 to $10,000, and possibly quite more.
Between the initial cost of surgery, the need for MRI’s (for silicone based implants), the cost of removing a broken implant (explantation), the cost of replacing a broken implant, and the possibility of reconstructive surgery – it’s clear to see there’s a lot to consider when looking at breast augmentation cost.
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