Plastic Surgery Boca Raton Florida
Becker Breast Implants
M.D., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S.
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
Boca Raton, FL

Nos. 30 and 31: Adjustable Breast Implants

A Florida Surgeon invented implants that can be resized for up to a year. Somewhere, Pamela Anderson's surgeon is crying.

By Stacey Grenrock Woods

There's no greater heartbreak for this television viewer than watching a woman giddily awake from breast-augmentation surgery, only to see her crestfallen face when she later admits to her surgeon that she wishes she had gone bigger. Ninety-eight percent of patients end up regretting their decision to err on the side of subtlety, and up until now their only silicone recourse has been sorrow, misplaced resentment, basic anguish, general dissatisfaction, unremitting despondency, or revision surgery. But there's a new implant coming to town, and this one's adjustable. Originally invented as a saline version by Florida plastic surgeon Dr. Hilton Becker and recently refined with silicone by the implant company Mentor Corp, the implant has an expandable inner cavity (surrounded by a layer of gel) that can be injected with saline through a temporary tube, a bit like pumping up a tire. This way, a woman and her surgeon can twiddle around with her size for up to a year after surgery, until they either get it just right, or play at least one really funny practical joke on her friends.
