Emotional Impact Of Breast Implant Surgery

Breast implant surgery can be a life-changing event for the hundreds of thousands of women who undergo it every year. The surgery results in a visible change in how a woman’s body looks, a change that is apparent both when she is clothed and when she is nude.The emotional impact of breast implant surgery of course varies from person to person. Nevertheless, the potential emotional impact of breast augmentation surgery should be taken into account as part of the decision process for whether or not to move forward with surgery.

Psychologists have long recognized the relationship between a woman’s sense of self-esteem and how she looks. A woman’s sense of her own physical attractiveness can affect how she presents herself in public, whether she takes risks that could advance her career, and how aggressively she reaches out to make new friends or find a mate.

Of course, there is no scientific relationship between breast size and self-esteem. However, the degree to which a woman perceives her own body – including her breasts – as being attractive can and does affect how she feels about herself. It all boils down to self-perception, which has a very real impact on her emotional life. Women have a variety of ways of reacting emotionally after breast implant surgery. For all women, there will of course be a noticeable difference in how they look. While some women are not happy with their new look, most feel that it is an improvement over how their breasts used to look, pre-surgery.

Emotionally, most women may react to the effects of the surgery itself: the pain, the wounds, and the short-term change in lifestyle required. However, all of these will improve in the days and weeks after surgery as healing continues.

Even after the healing period has passed, a minority of breast implant surgery recipients may still feel that their new breasts do not live up to what they had imagined. This can be a difficult thing for many women to deal with.

On the other hand, most women who have undergone this type of surgery are very satisfied with the way they look. They feel a renewed sense of confidence in terms of the way they look and feel, which can have long-term, lasting positive emotional impacts.

Of course, for women who have experienced positive emotional impacts after surgery, there is no cause for concern. However, for the few who are not happy about the results of their surgery, there are various options.

Some women start to feel better after they have adjusted to the way they look. Part of the reason for this is that the breast implants will change in appearance during the first few weeks after surgery – often ending up pleasing the woman after all.

Other women may choose to have a re-operation, whereby their surgeon corrects the issues that the woman is having with her new breasts.