Many conditions lead patients to want larger breasts. Some of the most common reasons for breast implants are below. Small Breasts Most women who choose to undergo breast implant surgery feel that their breasts are too small for their figure. Surprisingly, most women actually want to increase their cup size by only one size or they wish to have enlarged breasts that appear natural and proportional to their figure. Shrinking Breasts after Pregnancy During pregnancy, breasts grow markedly to produce enough milk to sustain the newborn baby. After months of engorgement and nursing, the skin on the breast loses some elasticity. Soon after the cessation of breastfeeding, breast tissue generally involutes or thins out to a size smaller than before pregnancy. Coupled with decreased skin elasticity, the breasts droop and sag. Enlarging and lifting the breasts with implants can return the breasts to their original size while correcting the droopiness or ptosis. Droopy Ptotic Breasts Decreased tissue elasticity leads to droopy breasts. Multiple pregnancies can exaggerate droopiness. Breast implant surgery lifts the breasts to a more youthful position. Uneven Breasts Nearly 100 percent of women have uneven or asymmetrical breasts. When the size difference is significant and noticeable, a small implant in the smaller breast dramatically corrects the asymmetry. Some women may choose to place an implant in both breasts, using a larger breast implant in the smaller breast. Congenital Deformities Several congenital conditions lead to uneven breast size and shape. Poland's Syndrome is a condition that affects the arms and breasts, resulting in extremely small or abnormally developed breasts. Pectus excavatum condition is the abnormal development of the ribs and sternum causing an "excavated" appearance of the chest. The ribs and sternum depress the insides of the chest cavity. Consequently, the breasts develop inwardly resulting in extremely wide cleavage. Properly selected breast implants can improve the deformity associated with this condition by simply filling in the depression in the ribs. Breast Cancer Reconstruction Breast implant surgery remains one of the premier options for reconstructing the breasts after breast cancer surgery. Though radiation therapy after breast cancer surgery can negatively affect the softness of breast implants, some surgeons still recommend breast augmentation to reconstruct irradiated breasts. Tubular Breasts Some women have breasts with a narrow base, which can herniate or protrude through their nipple-areola complexes. To correct such a deformity, doctors must cut the connective tissue thereby widening the base of the breast. A breast implant fills in the space and maintains the aesthetic of normal base width.

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Personalized Medicine

Personalized medicine is a medical model emphasizing the systematic use of information about an individual patient to select or optimize that patient's preventative and therapeutic care. Personalized medicine is the products and services that leverage the science of genomics and proteomics and capitalize on the trends toward wellness and consumerism to enable tailored approaches to prevention and care. Over the past century, medical care has centered on standards of care based on epidemiological studies of large cohorts. Personalized medicine seeks to provide an objective basis for consideration of such individual differences. Traditionally, personalized medicine has been limited to the consideration of a patient's family history, social circumstances, environment, and behaviors in tailoring individual care. Personalized medicine uses new methods of molecular analysis to manage a patient’s disease or predisposition toward a disease. It aims to achieve optimal medical outcomes by helping physicians and patients choose the disease management approaches likely to work best in the context of a patient’s genetic and environmental profile. Such approaches may include genetic screening programs that more precisely diagnose diseases and their sub-types, or help physicians select the type and dose of medication best suited to a certain group of patients. Personalized medicine is an extension of traditional approaches to understanding and treating illness. Since the beginning of the study of medicine, physicians have employed evidence found through observation to make a diagnosis or to prescribe treatment. In the modern concept of personalized medicine, the tools provided to the physician are more precise, probing not just the obvious, such as a tumor on a mammogram or cells under a microscope, but the very molecular makeup of each patient. Looking at the patient on this level helps the physician get a profile of the patient’s genetic distinction, or mapping. By investigating this genetic mapping, medical professionals are then able to profile patients, and use the found information to plan a course of treatment that is much more in step with the way their body works. Genomic medicine and personalized medicine use genetic information to prevent or treat disease in adults or their children. Having a genetic map or a profile of a patient’s genetic variation can then guide the selection of drugs or treatment processes. This can minimize side effects or to create a strategy for a more successful outcome from the medical treatment. Helping the physician cover all the bases is imperative. Genetic mapping can also indicate the propensity to contract certain diseases before the patient actually shows recognizable symptoms, allowing the physician and patient to put together a plan for observation and prevention. Personalized medicine, when coupled with personal pharmacogenetics, is a unique approach that may be well suited for the health challenges we face in the new millennium. Although the medical and scientific communities, through research and discovery, got the upper hand over many of the diseases we have encountered since the advent of advanced medicine, many diseases that are more complicated. Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s are caused by a combination of genetic and other factors. Coupled with the fact that they tend to be chronic, they place a significant burden on not only the patient, but on the healthcare system as a whole. Personalized medicine aims to provide the tools and knowledge to fight chronic diseases and treat them more effectively than ever before. Genetic profiles can help physicians to better discern subgroups of patients with various forms of cancer, in addition to other complex diseases, helping to guide doctors with accurate forms of predictive medicine and preventative medicine. With personalized medicine, the physician is intending to select the best treatment protocol or even, in many cases, avoid passing the expense and risks of unnecessary medical treatments on to the patient altogether. In addition, personalized medicine, when used correctly, aims to guide tests that detect variation in the way individual patients metabolize various pharmaceuticals. Personalized medicine is working to help determine the right dose for a patient, helping to avoid hazards based on familial history, environmental influences, and genetic variation.