ADJUSTABLE BREAST IMPLANTS
with EXPANSION AUGMENTATION ®

Dr. Fisher offers over 20 years of experience with the "continuous" size adjustable breast implant and expansion augmentation dating back to 1982. Located in the heart of Yorba Linda, California our surgery center is literally a hospital for one. Over five thousand square feet are dedicated to your plastic, cosmetic, reconstructive and microscopic surgery needs. Set in a rural area, we provide discreet and private services to all of our patients.

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17491 Bastanchury Road
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
North Orange County California
800-400-BODY

EXPANSION AUGMENTATION ®
By JOHN BRADFORD FISHER, M.D.

EXPANSION AUGMENTATION ® means IMPLANTS WITHOUT EDGES ™

What is EXPANSION AUGMENTATION ®?
EXPANSION AUGMENTATION ® is the use of a size adjustable breast implant which can be changed after surgery by increasing or decreasing the volume of the implant by adding or subtracting saline (salt water) through a small remote valve placed under the skin during the primary surgery and adjusted during a postoperative office visit.

Why Choose EXPANSION AUGMENTATION ®?
Expansion Augmentation using adjustable breast implants gives patients more choice since the patient can “wear” the implant and then change the size, feel, and cleavage after the surgery by simple injections in the office examination room.

Most surgeons simply “size” their patients during the operative procedure by adding or subtracting saline after installing the breast implant while still in the operating room. This gives the patient only a “single fitting” for the implant. Later on, as time passes, the implant “settles” and eventually looses volume—most commonly explained as “loss of swelling.” While most patients are happy initially with the size of their implants, eventually they become accustomed to the “new” size and begin to “wish they were larger.”

With EXPANSION AUGMENTATION ® with size adjustable breast implants, the size of the implant can be changed without surgery by adding or taking away saline with a needle introduced into the self-sealing remote valve which is connected to the implant by small tubing—much in the same way the computer is controlled with the “mouse.” The clicker on the mouse is the remote self-sealing valve and the cord from the mouse is the tubing going to the implant which can be controlled by simple injections after the swelling from the surgery goes away. In his way, patient’s can adjust the size, shape, and contour of their implants as they wear them—“size adjustable breast implants” give patients a more “natural looking” tm breast implant result.

How does EXPANSION AUGMENTATION ® work?
Here at BODY BY FISHER ®, we have been using adjustable implantable devices since 1982. Dr. Fisher, as Chief of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the United States Navy National Medical Center, originally used “temporary” expander devices to stretch the muscles and skin to develop a “new breast” after patients had mastectomy operations. During this time, Dr. Fisher used the concept of “over-expansion” to achieve a “natural looking” breast. Now, we use the same principle to develop and custom design your new breast and the technique is uniquely ours—more simply stated—our “customized cleavage ™” leaves our patients with” implants without edges ™”