“Ballerina” typically refers to a small breast implant. It can be round or shaped, but the ergonomic Motiva subtly shaped implants have been a very powerful and exciting treatment for people looking for these ballerina shapes.
The concept behind this is to improve the overall shape of the breast without a large implant. You can use any cohesive gel or gummy bear breast implant to create a ballerina breast enhancement, with a few caveats. The ballerina breast enhancement is really designed on shape over size, and so typically these are smaller implants – somewhere in that 150 to 300 cc range – depending on your natural shape, desires, and how much breast tissue you currently have.
Most of our ballerina breast enhancement patients are just trying to improve their overall shape, and maybe restore the volume they’ve lost with either weight loss or after pregnancy.
The Motiva sixth-generation implants can further enhance this, and they have two options: a round implant and an ergonomic implant that has a subtle shape to it. For patients looking for that very natural, subtle look to their breasts, the sixth-generation Motiva implant is a great option for them because this can give that nice natural slope with some medial cleavage, as well as some of the functional fullness that the patients want, but still keep people guessing whether this is a breast enhancement or natural breast tissue.
The selection process is important because you really want to make sure that the enhancement will fit your overall body. 3-D imaging and precision measurements are very important to make sure that we guide you to your perfect size. Because there are so many options in terms of shapes, profiles, and styles to make sure that you get the perfect size, you really want the width of the implant to fit the width of your breast, because this is what’s going to give you that nice custom cleavage and a little bit of that subtle functional force, without being overly big.
There are so many options starting in the small ranges – from 150 to 160 cc implants – and the fact that we can place them where you need the functional fullness the most, and not where you don’t, has been a huge advantage.
So, in summary, ballerina breast enhancement can really be done with any highly cohesive gel implants. The sixth-generation Motiva implant, especially the ergonomic breast implants, is particularly effective at achieving this enhancement and has become very popular for the ballerina breast enhancement.
These are often combined with breast preservation procedures, and the reason that they’re combined is that breast preservation will actually allow us to place the implant where you need that fullness the most. It also preserves all the natural ligaments and tissues within the breasts. It doesn’t destroy any of the natural musculature of the breast, so it will give you a very natural anatomical shape because you’re not disrupting any of your natural anatomical structures.
You won’t have some of the animation deformity under the muscle implants. You’re keeping that completely intact, and then you create this nest where you can support the implant where you want – not where you don’t – and create that perfect ballerina breast enhancement.
