The most attractive part of the body for males from the anatomical point of view are “just” mammary glands, surrounded by fatty tissue. Their size is directly dependent on hereditary factors - hormones level in the blood and susceptibility to them of the mammary glands (that’s why an excellent way to enlarge the breasts for many is to take regular contraceptive pills). The fatty tissue, inevitably accumulating with age, may become a “gift of nature” for a woman whose mammary glands reduce greatly before the menopause. Great importance for breast shape belongs to the tone of the muscles and state of the skin. As they grow weaker, the ample forms tend to sink down because of gravity... i.e. in theory, women's beauty - the breasts - can be affected via the hormonal background, fatty tissue, muscles and skin. But how practical is that?

Anoint a sore (healthy?) point

The breasts are perhaps the sorest point for women of all ages. Girls are most often dissatisfied with their size, and older women - with their form. Meanwhile, wise and experienced mothers advise their daughters to eat more cabbage, bread crusts, or even ... raw dough. Although, if you have already tried to restore the breasts’ form after giving birth or breast feeding, using popular remedies like hop broth or carrot juice, you know that all of this is usually useless and sooner or later you will have to turn to the remedies offered by the beauty industry. Their range today is incredibly large. Manufacturers vie with one another in sales’ pitches about the capacities of BioActive Nutrients, creams and masks to enlarge breasts by at least 1-2 sizes and to make them firmer and rejuvenate them. But those that really give results - and what’s worth noting is that those results are usually quite modest - the main active substances are vegetative phytohormones (estrogen-like substances) - for example, hop and soybean (Push Up) extracts. Affecting the mammary glands receptors, they cause an enlargement of the glandular tissue, similar to that before a period or while taking contraceptive pills. The BANs act in a similar way based on exotic plants extract, like pueraria mirifica (“Ayudara,” “Maxi Bust,” “Bi-2 up”). To enhance the effect, the manufacturers offer a combined impact - the parallel use of creams and masks on the breasts along with phytohormones that impact locally through the skin. Today it is clear even to the uninitiated that a cream is unable to increase breast volume, but it can lift the skin, making it more elastic and smooth by improving the regeneration process, enhancing the inflow of the blood and, therefore, of the nutrients. By doing so, the skin tone improves, i.e. there is a lifting effect and a general impression of the breast lifting and the appearance of elasticity is created. But to achieve these effects, one course of application of creams and/or BANs is not enough; they require use over a period of from 3 to 6 months, and then, to conserve the result, in smaller doses they should be used permanently. If the treatment is stopped, everything quickly returns to the initial state.

Under the current and vacuum

Breast enlargement through hardware methods has almost no potential. With the help of Electrical Miostimulation or microcurrent therapy the breast may grow in volume, but not much, or may not increase at all, though it will definitely become more elastic - through training and strengthening the pectoral muscles and improving the skin tone. But the same effect can be achieved in a more reliable, win-win way - the regular performance of sets of exercises to strengthen the pectoral muscles. They are well known to any fitness coach, and they can also be easily found on the Internet.

A more or less realistic way to create a miracle, increasing breast volume by one or two sizes, lifting them and making them ample for a fairly long period is the vacuum stretching of the mammary glands. The principle of the impact recalls the Ilizarov apparatus, based on the idea that the use of a physical force on the tissues makes them grow. For breast enlargement there is a unit resembling two plastic caps, which are put on the breasts, plus a vacuum compressor that causes the rarefaction of air. The unit should be worn for about a month, at least 12-14 hours a day ... Doctors do not like to recommend this method to their patients. Apart from not being light or pleasant to wear, its use can lead to a disorder of the circulation of fluid in the mammary glands and, consequently, breast inflammation, and it is dangerous for women who have mammary glands pathology (cysts, fibroma).

Actually, before deciding on any impact on the mammary glands area, a careful examination is necessary, including a mammographic examination – breasts demand to be taken seriously.

We shall cut ...

In short, the most reliable and durable way to get a beautiful bust so far is plastic surgery - breast prosthesis (implants) implantation, enlargement or correction of the breasts. Of course, as with any surgery, there are certain risks and a long postsurgical recovery period is inevitable, but since mammosurgery has been practiced for over a decade, surgeons have learned to bring discomfort to a minimum. However, since the non-membranous gel fillings became a thing of the past, horrifying stories are told about the dangers that lie in the modern endoprosthesis. They allegedly can “explode” on planes because of the pressure, and in saunas due to the temperature changes. Silicon, which fills the membranous silicone prosthesis, also seems to be harmful, and if it spills out, intoxication of the body will begin. Plastic surgeons assure us that the new generation of implants, filled with non-fluid cohesive or highly cohesive gels, will hold their shape, whatever you do with them, even if you step on them and in addition hop on or pierce it with a needle. That’s why most of the well-known manufacturers of implants (McGhan, Mentor, Arion, Eurosilicon), give their patients a lifetime guaranty on the reliability of their products. And what’s also worth mentioning is that the modern prosthesis and the methods of their installation can accurately imitate the natural breast, not only visually, but also to the touch.

Nothing lasts forever

With such implants you can breast-feed a child with no fear. Of course, in this case, its shape will change, but the “sinking-down” after feeding will look natural. If necessary, the form can be adjusted later: in one case you will only need to remove the excess skin, in another - to replace the implant. Because we change over the years, which means our proportions are changing as well, soft tissue under the influence of gravity tends to go down. So, inevitably comes the moment when the breasts with endoprosthesis will require a correction of forms and a lifting: most frequently, 10-12 years after the first implantation it’s obligatory to change the prosthesis and have additional surgery to improve the form of mammary glands. It’s carried out through the same scars, so that after the adjustment the patient won’t discover any additional cuts. By the way, on the subject of scars – many fear unnecessary cuts and ask the surgeon to manage without lifting. But if the breasts are almost “empty,” then without the removal of the excess skin, even with a modern implant and a very skilled surgeon, it is not possible to make them beautiful. And the postsurgical scars today are almost invisible. Under the breast cuts are rare today, as it is the place that mostly exposes to an external view the secret of the woman’s interaction with a surgeon. Now, the breast generally is increased through the cuts in the underarm area - most frequently with the endoscopic (very friendly) method, which leaves even smaller scars, and the latter in that place are well hidden. Or by the areola, where, as it’s well known, the scar is virtually invisible - especially if you complete “the work on a new breast» with a fine tattoo. However, there is the chance of unpleasant consequences - the nipple may temporarily or completely lose its sensitivity.

Size has consequences

Hoping to regain the confidence of attractiveness and femininity, many ask surgeons to create breasts of at least of the 5 - 6th size, to put an end to their inhibitions forever. But here it’s very important to consult a good surgeon, who will explain that size matters for the beauty of the female figure only in a relative way, the observation of the proportions is above all. And it does not matter, whether you have big breasts or small ones, whether you have hips or you don’t - the main thing is the right balance between the breasts and waist. Therefore, during the consultation the patient and the surgeon together choose not the size of the breast, but a new, elegant, feminine figure. Indeed, thanks to correctly chosen implants overall aesthetic perception changes too. For example, a surgeon can make the waist and hips visually narrower ... So he advises the patient to opt not for a certain volume and form, but for a natural and harmonious look, and believes that if there is no such thing, the result of the surgery has not been achieved. After the surgery 1-1.5 months are necessary for the puffiness to decline and the stitches to become almost unnoticeable. And the result is not only a change in your wardrobe (new breasts will need new clothes), but also the long-awaited confidence in oneself, in one’s attractiveness and sexuality.