page_title: Breast augmentation
section_title: Implants and breast-feeding
hierarchical_section_title: Breast augmentation / Surgical breast augmentation / Implants and breast-feeding
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Člověk. English: A baby breastfeeding. &lt;=3 Español: La leche materna puede transmitir el virus VIH. עברית: תינוק יונק. 한국어: 젖을 먹는 갖난아기. Nederlands: Borstvoeding bespoedigt de genezing van de moeder. සිංහල: සිඟිත්තෙක් මවුකිරි ලබයි. 粵語: BB 食人奶.
context_page_description: Breast augmentation and augmentation mammoplasty is a cosmetic surgery technique using breast-implants and fat-graft mammoplasty techniques to increase the size, change the shape, and alter the texture of the breasts of a woman. Augmentation mammoplasty is applied to correct congenital defects of the breasts and the chest wall. As an elective cosmetic surgery, primary augmentation changes the aesthetics – of size, shape, and texture – of healthy breasts.
  The surgical implantation approach creates a spherical augmentation of the breast hemisphere, using a breast implant filled with either saline solution or silicone gel; the fat-graft transfer approach augments the size and corrects contour defects of the breast hemisphere with grafts of the adipocyte fat tissue, drawn from the person's body.
  In a breast reconstruction procedure, a tissue expander is sometimes put in place and inflated with saline to prepare the recipient site to receive and accommodate the breast implant prosthesis.
context_section_description: The breasts are apocrine glands which produce milk for the feeding of infant children,
caption: A functional breast: a mammary gland  feeding an infant child.
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