Small Breast Augmentation in Baton Rouge, LA
A small breast augmentation can offer a natural, more subtle enhancement for women with smaller frames who want an increase in volume without a dramatic change in size. Small breast augmentation can enlarge breasts using saline or silicone implants, but Dr. Daugherty also offers augmentation with fat transfer. This natural option uses a patient’s own fat to shape and enlarge the breasts.
Dr. Robyn Daugherty is a Baton Rouge breast augmentation doctor who strives to help you reach your aesthetic goals through quality surgical care, utmost precision, and artistic creativity. You deserve a plastic surgeon who listens to your goals and values your time, and Dr. Daugherty delivers these benefits with excellence. Proudly located in Baton Rouge, we provide expert plastic surgery services to individuals in Lafayette and Northshore communities like Covington, Mandeville, and Madisonville.
Reclaiming your confidence and your natural beauty with one of the best small breast augmentation providers in Baton Rouge, LA, is easier than ever! Contact Daugherty Plastic Surgery at (225) 235-3884 or complete our online form to schedule your consultation today! From our location in Baton Rouge, we are dedicated to serving plastic, reconstructive, and cosmetic surgery patients throughout Louisiana.
What Is Small Breast Augmentation?
Small breast augmentation is a surgical procedure done to increase or restore breast size, also enhancing breast shape and projection. Using saline or silicone implants that range in size and consistency, Dr. Daugherty can help you decide which breast implant options will work best for your anatomy and aesthetic goals.
We also offer small breast augmentation with fat transfer, also called fat grafting or autologous fat transfer. In this augmentation procedure, Dr. Daugherty harvests fat from one part of the patient’s body through liposuction and then injects it into the breasts. This technique is a good option for those who prefer a more natural approach compared to implants and has two distinct benefits. For one, it contours areas where excess fat is removed while enhancing breast size and shape. Secondly, results are typically more subtle than implants.
For silicone small breast implants, Dr. Daugherty uses the Keller Funnel method of implantation. It is a no-touch sterile approach that has many benefits, including:
- Smaller breast augmentation incisions
- Decreased risk of infection and capsular contracture
- Faster recovery
- Less stress on the implant
- Quicker procedure time
Small breast augmentation can also be part of a mommy makeover procedure — a group of body rejuvenation procedures done after childbirth and breastfeeding that may also include:
What Are the Benefits of Small Breast Augmentation?
Small breast augmentation can offer you a path to your ideal figure by enhancing your confidence and feminine curves. You can enjoy your small breast augmentation results for a decade or more by continuing to eat a nutritious diet and follow healthy lifestyle choices.
- May have noticeable asymmetry — different by a cup size or more
- Have smaller breasts than they would like
- Have lost fullness due to weight loss, pregnancy, or nursing
- Improve symmetry
- Restore fullness
- Enlarge breasts
- Create better proportions
Am I an Ideal Candidate for a Small Breast Augmentation?
The best candidates for small breast augmentation in Louisiana want to enhance their breasts’ size and shape, but don’t want a dramatic change in appearance. Dr. Daugherty recommends that her patients seeking this customizable surgery should share the following characteristics:
- Live a healthy lifestyle
- Be non-smokers, or willing to quit before surgery
- Be finished with childbearing and breastfeeding
- Have realistic expectations
- Understand the surgical risks
- Be at a healthy, stable weight
Contact Us Today
Dr. Robyn Daugherty is a double board-certified plastic surgeon with extensive training and experience conducting procedures of the breast, body, and face. She is committed to improving and enriching her patients’ lives with beautiful, natural-looking plastic surgery results and exceptional patient care. Dr. Daugherty invites you to meet with her for a friendly and informative consultation to learn more about your goals and discuss your treatment options.
Your Small Breast Augmentation Consultation
During your small breast augmentation consultation, Dr. Daugherty will ask you numerous questions to learn about your aesthetic goals and what your ideal outcome looks like. Then, she will review all the details, risks, and benefits of a small breast augmentation, and she’ll share her honest expert opinion on which options can best address your concerns and unique situation. During your Baton Rouge small breast augmentation consultation, Dr. Daugherty will conduct a thorough examination and evaluation, including:
- Current breast size and shape
- Desired breast implant size and shape
- Quality of breast tissue and skin
- Detailed measurements to ensure the correct surgical plan is formulated
- Allergies or medical conditions
- Previous surgeries or medical treatments
- Current medications and mammogram results
- Family history of breast cancer
Before you leave your consultation, Dr. Daugherty will ensure you feel informed and comfortable making decisions about your breast augmentation procedure. With high-quality care, compassion, and dedication to excellent results for each patient, Dr. Daugherty is your choice for the best breast augmentations in Baton Rouge.
What Can I Expect During a Small Breast Augmentation Procedure?
Dr. Daugherty customizes each patient’s breast enhancement procedure for optimal results. However, here are some general steps you can expect.
Bring Back Your Curves and Confidence With Small Breast Augmentation
You’ll love the long-lasting curves you get from Dr. Robyn Daugherty, one of the best small breast augmentation surgeons in Baton Rouge! Contact Daugherty Plastic Surgery at (225) 235-3884 or complete our online form to schedule your small breast augmentation consultation today!
FAQ
Small Breast Augmentation in Baton Rouge, LA
Your surgeon should be board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, not a cosmetic surgery board. The ABPS only certifies rigorously trained plastic and reconstructive surgeons at a limited number of approved programs across the country. Each candidate must complete an arduous process after training in such a program to obtain board certification by the ABPS. This is a right of passage that is necessary to deliver the best standards to our patients. It is also important to look at the before and after portfolio of your surgeon as well as patient experiences.
Most of our patients see immediate improvements after their small breast augmentation, but you may also experience bruising and swelling that temporarily obscure results. As your body heals, these side effects will resolve, and your new contours will become more visible. Swelling may take up to six months to fully go down.
Small breast augmentation cost in Baton Rouge, LA, depends on your specific needs and surgical plan. At your consultation, Dr. Daugherty will give you a breakdown of the cost of a small breast augmentation in Louisiana.
Silicone breast implants look and feel more natural.
While you only need a long weekend away from work, full recovery time is approximately four to six weeks. During this time, we suggest avoiding lifting heavy objects and strenuous physical activities.
At your consultation, Dr. Daugherty would love to show you photos of previous patients and the results they love.
Small breast augmentation is done under general anesthesia.
Yes – you need someone to drive you and to stay with you for at least 24 hours after surgery.
If you have a desk job, you can return to work after a long weekend of recovery. Manual laborers will need a longer break to avoid sweating, heavy lifting, etc and may need to return to light duty until fully healed at about 4-6 weeks.
You should avoid exercising and other activities that increase your blood pressure for at least four to six weeks following your small breast augmentation. However, you should begin walking as soon as possible.
For a few weeks following a small breast augmentation, patients should sleep on their backs with their upper bodies slightly elevated to avoid putting pressure on the breasts and minimize swelling. Patients should try to avoid stomach sleeping for at least six weeks after their procedure.
Yes! You need to wear a good support bra without an underwire for 6 weeks around the clock after small breast augmentation surgery. This is to prevent stretching the pocket before the capsule is well formed. This will help to prevent breast implant malposition over time. After 6 weeks, you should still wear a good support bra to exercise and wear a bra in general more often than not.
Yes, and you should! The mammographers will be able to screen all of your breast tissue, which is on top of the implant.
More commonly, the nipple areolar complex is hypersensitive or has increased sensitivity for a while after small breast augmentation. This is due to stretching of the tissues overlying the implant, which carry some of the sensory nerves to the nipple. This will normalize over time, but usually takes several weeks to return to normal sensation.
I will listen to your goals and do everything that I can to help you achieve those. I will be upfront with you every step of the way. I nursed all four of my children, so I am incredibly empathetic to mothers who wish to replace lost volume after pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Dr. Daugherty will do a series of measurements and a thorough physical exam, which will determine whether or not a breast lift will be necessary for the optimal shape of the breasts.
The Keller Funnel enables your surgeon to easily place the implant into the breast pocket without touching it and without it touching the breast skin.
During the consultation, Dr. Daugherty will measure your chest to help determine the best range of implant sizes for your body. A discussion of your goals and wish photos also helps to narrow down the options. Then, you will be allowed to try on some implants to see which you prefer best.
The no-touch technique means placement of the implant into the pocket without anyone touching the device. This is done to ensure absolute sterility and to prevent future capsular contracture. The implant goes directly into the Keller funnel, and then the funnel is used to place the implant directly into the dissected breast pocket.
You should not have drains after a small breast augmentation.
There are multiple deep layers done with absorbable sutures that don’t require removal. There is typically one outer layer of sutures that needs to be removed at 7 days after surgery.
The scar is hidden underneath the breast in the inframammary fold.
Plan for your consultation with wish photos, and discuss your goals during your consultation.
Unhappiness with cosmetic appearance, need for additional surgery, unhappiness with size, infection, hematoma, implant malposition, implant rupture, capsular contracture.
More than likely, you will need surgery at some point in the future to replace or remove your implants. Breast implants are safe, but they are medical devices. It’s difficult to say how long each patient will go prior to needing additional surgery. Screening for rupture can be done with ultrasound or MRI for silicone implants starting around five years post-surgery and every couple of years after that. If you have a saline device, you will know that it’s ruptured because your breast will deflate.