The final stage of recovery includes a process known as “drop and fluff.” At first, breast implants sit high and tight on the chest wall. As the breasts adjust to the implants inside, the pocket around the implants will relax, and the implants will fall into a more natural-looking position. The breasts also expand slightly in size as pressure on the breast implant relaxes. This relaxation can occur several weeks after your surgery or may take a few months. Often, one breast will drop before the other.
We recommend performing regular breast massages from one week after breast augmentation surgery until about three months post-surgery. These implant displacement massages will keep the soft tissue pocket around the implant open.
Massaging the breasts will allow the pocket and soft tissue surrounding the implants to remain more prominent, allowing the implants to move. Massage should prevent the soft tissue capsule from shrinking and pressing the implant out of shape – a painful phenomenon known as capsular contraction.