What is a living bra?
It is a surgical technique designed to give you the most support, the most natural padding, and the best feeling breast possible. This system of doing breast augmentation uses your own muscles to create coverage and support for an implant. To show how this works, these figures will demonstrate the principles and power of muscle support.
Your anatomy: The chest muscles are directly under the breast. Usually the pectoralis muscle only goes to the nipple level and the other muscles cover below this. The rectus and external oblique muscles cover the middle and laterally toward the side. The serratus muscle covers the rib cage.
When implants are put over the muscle, just under the breast there is no support underneath. Sometimes this works well, but with larger implants this may cause bottoming out. This is a situation where the bottom part of the breast becomes fuller than the top. Also, wrinkles and ripples can be more obvious anywhere in the breast because of the lack of coverage.
One solution is to put implants under the pectoralis muscle. This prevents upper half wrinkling and rippling but doesn’t do that for the lower half especially on the side. The muscle does support the implants, but there is no muscular support on the bottom.
A better solution for support and coverage is the living bra. The implant placed under all of the muscles of the chest: pectoralis, rectus, external oblique and serratus. Then a relaxing incision is made toward the middle and bottom of the pocket. The muscles on the side help to cup and contour the implant for the best padding and support.
