Breast Augmentation Long Island, NY
Serving patients in Huntington Station & Suffolk County, NY
Serving patients in Huntington Station & Suffolk County, NY
Confidence begins with feeling at home in your own body. For many women, changes in breast size, shape, or symmetry can influence how they feel about their appearance and self-image. Other women have always felt dissatisfied with the size of their breasts. Whether you’d like to restore your breast shape following pregnancy, weight loss, or aging—or you’re simply seeking fuller, shapelier proportions—breast augmentation offers a highly personalized path to enhancing your natural contours.
At the practice of Charlotte Ann Rhee, MD, PC, your treatment is guided by artistry, precision, and compassion. As a board-certified plastic surgeon with more than 30 years of experience in breast surgery, Dr. Rhee creates results that look beautifully natural. Using advanced techniques with silicone gel or saline breast implants, she designs a customized approach that complements your shape, enhances your confidence, and feels authentically you.
Personalized treatment planning delivers natural-looking results tailored to your body. Choose from saline breast implants or silicone breast implants in a wide variety of sizes, profiles, and styles.
Adds breast volume, corrects asymmetry, and improves breast shape for refined proportions.
Breast augmentation surgery takes about one to two hours under general anesthesia, performed in Dr. Rhee’s private accredited facility.
Most breast augmentation patients resume daily activities in 1-2 weeks, with full recovery in several weeks.
Modern breast implant devices are durable and designed to provide many years of confidence and comfort.
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Breast augmentation with implants, also known as augmentation mammoplasty, is a cosmetic surgery designed to enhance the size, shape, and symmetry of the breasts using saline or silicone gel implants. This procedure can restore breast volume lost after pregnancy, weight loss, or aging, or simply create a more proportionate silhouette. The implants are placed either beneath the breast tissue or the pectoral muscle, depending on your anatomy and goals. Each breast implant surgery is customized to achieve natural, balanced results that align beautifully with your body’s contours.
Dr. Charlotte Ann Rhee performs breast augmentation with meticulous precision and an artistic eye. As a female plastic surgeon, she understands how personal this choice can be and prioritizes results that look and feel natural. When you schedule a consultation with Dr. Rhee, you will discuss all of the concerns you have with your breasts and the results you desire after surgery. If you are a good candidate for breast enhancement, Dr. Rhee will discuss all of your options as far as implant type and size are concerned, as well as what it means to have realistic expectations for the procedure. To learn more about breast implants, click here.
The breast augmentation procedure lasts one to two hours and is performed at Dr. Rhee’s accredited surgical facility at her Huntington, NY, office. This allows patients to be treated and recover in a comfortable, at-home setting instead of a hospital.
The breast augmentation procedure involves the following steps:
Your comfort and safety are Dr. Rhee’s highest priorities. Breast augmentation surgery is performed under general anesthesia, ensuring you’re completely asleep and free of pain throughout the procedure. Because Dr. Rhee performs all breast implant surgeries in her accredited, private surgical facility in Huntington Station, patients benefit from a calm, spa-like environment with the highest medical standards.
When performing breast augmentation with implants, Dr. Rhee makes incisions in inconspicuous places on the breast to minimize scar visibility. Dr. Rhee typically uses the inframammary approach, which is made under the breast and close to the inframammary fold. The incision is made here to secure proper placement of the implant, but also to reduce scar visibility. An advantage of this incision is that Dr. Rhee works close to the breast, allowing for optimal visibility while working.
Dr. Rhee creates a pocket for the breast implant, either under the muscle (submuscular placement) or above it (subglandular placement). Breast implant placement beneath the muscle of the chest offers a few advantages over placement beneath the breast tissue only. These include reduced risk of capsular contracture (post-operative tightening around the implant) and less interference with mammogram examinations. Possible disadvantages include the need for drainage tubes and elevated pain in the first few days following surgery. Dr. Rhee will help you decide which option may be best for you.
After the breast implants, either saline or silicone gel, are positioned beneath the breast tissue or pectoral muscle, Dr. Rhee carefully checks for symmetry and natural contour. Once satisfied with the shape and balance, she closes the incision sites with fine, dissolvable sutures to minimize scarring.
A soft dressing or surgical bra is applied to support the new breast contours and reduce swelling. You’ll rest comfortably in recovery while our team monitors you before returning home the same day with personalized aftercare instructions. Each step is performed with precision and artistry to create beautiful, natural-looking results.
Women seek breast augmentation for several reasons, including naturally small breasts, sagging breasts, or changes in breast tissue after pregnancy, breastfeeding, or weight loss. The augmentation mammoplasty procedure can help correct sagging breasts, improve breast symmetry, and restore shape after reconstructive breast surgery or breast reconstruction following illness or injury.
This cosmetic surgery helps create proportion by increasing breast size and refining contour. Patients may choose silicone implants or saline implants to add volume. Each breast augmentation surgery is carefully customized to achieve the desired outcome while preserving the soft, feminine lines of the chest.
The primary benefits of breast enhancement surgery are cosmetic improvements. However, the results from breast augmentation surgery can also improve the patient's overall confidence and self-esteem.
Benefits include:
Ideal candidates for breast augmentation include women who desire larger breasts and those who want to restore their breast volume. Breast volume is often lost as a result of pregnancy or significant weight loss. Breast augmentation may be performed with a breast lift, or mastopexy. In this case, we will also be able to lift sagging breasts. Candidates for plastic surgery should be in good health and have realistic expectations for the procedure.
You may not be a good candidate for breast enhancement surgery if you are currently breastfeeding, pregnant, or not in good physical health. Women who plan to have more children are not advised to undergo breast surgery, as results may be altered after giving birth. The best way to know if you are a candidate for breast augmentation is to come in for a free consultation with Dr. Rhee.
After breast augmentation surgery, drainage tubes may be inserted. Incisions will be stitched, taped, and bandaged. Patients typically wear a surgical bra over the bandages to minimize swelling and give the breasts support. For those who want more than the average surgical bra, look to BodyFly, which is a line of body shaping activewear for patients recovering from breast procedures. Dr. Rhee founded this company in 2016 to offer patients wardrobe options that incorporate compression benefits with fashion. These garments can also be worn for your workouts.
For a few days, most patients will feel tired and sore, but most return to work in a week. Dr. Rhee will remove stitches in a week to 10 days. During the first few weeks, postoperative pain, swelling, and sensitivity will diminish. Scars begin to fade in a few months. Dr. Rhee and her team provide attentive support throughout the recovery process to ensure smooth healing and optimal results.
Results from breast augmentation surgery are visible immediately, with the final look emerging as swelling decreases and breast implants settle into place over several weeks. Silicone gel implants and saline breast implants both create soft, natural contours that blend smoothly with your existing breast tissue.
Your augmented breasts will feel fuller and more proportionate, enhancing both your self-image and your confidence. Over time, the scar tissue around the implant matures and softens, allowing for a natural look and feel. When performed by an experienced plastic surgeon like Dr. Rhee, augmentation mammoplasty results can last for many years, especially when paired with regular follow-up visits and healthy lifestyle habits.
When you come to see Dr. Charlotte Ann Rhee, you’re trusting your care to a board-certified plastic surgeon recognized internationally for her expertise in breast surgery and reconstructive surgery. With over 30 years of experience in plastic surgery, Dr. Rhee specializes in precise, natural-looking breast augmentation results using advanced techniques and materials such as cohesive silicone gel implants and saline breast implants.
As a female cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Rhee understands the deeply personal motivations behind choosing breast implant surgery. She provides each patient with a comprehensive consultation, where all of their options are discussed in detail. Her boutique, concierge-level practice ensures every breast augmentation patient feels heard, supported, and cared for throughout their journey.
Charlotte Ann Rhee, MD, is a top board-certified plastic surgeon in Long Island specializing in breast augmentation surgery. As a female plastic surgeon, she understands the insecurities that many women have, and it’s her goal for all of her patients to feel comfortable and satisfied with their results.
If you are ready to take the next step in exploring breast augmentation, Dr. Rhee offers free consultations. Call (631) 424-6707 to schedule your visit to her office located in Huntington, New York, or click the button below:
Breast augmentation in the United States has been the first or second most popular cosmetic surgery for many years running. Prior to COVID, the last year with reliable statistics was 2018. That year, 313,735 American women had breast augmentation, making it the year’s most popular procedure.
Women who’ve had augmentation also have incredibly high satisfaction rates after their surgery. After augmentation surgery, women are surveyed in the months and years afterwards. They report incredibly high rates of satisfaction. A survey from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports that 98 percent of women felt their augmentation either met or exceeded their expectations. Over 90 percent of the women also said they felt the procedure increased their self-esteem.
Breast augmentation is surgery, so its risks include those associated with surgery: excessive bleeding, reaction to anesthesia, poor incision healing, and the like. Beyond those general surgical risks, there are some risks specific to breast augmentation. These include:
Dr. Rhee will discuss the possible risks involved with breast augmentation during your consultation.
There isn’t any special preparation required for augmentation surgery. It is surgery, so you’ll need to stop taking any anti-inflammatory medications, blood thinners, aspirin, and most supplements for a few days prior to your procedure. If you smoke, you’ll need to stop for at least two weeks prior to and after your surgery, as smoking constricts the blood vessels, and this can hinder incision healing. Dr. Rhee will discuss these things with you during your consultation.
You’ll have to limit any reaching upward for a week or so, and you may want to bring any items you use regularly down to the counter or a lower shelf prior to coming home after your surgery.
Your implants won’t change at all as a reaction to any sort of medication.
Breast implants, like any manufactured product, have a lifespan. At some point, the implant shell will begin to degrade and allow for leakage or rupture. At what point this happens can vary dramatically between different women. All breast implant manufacturers currently guarantee their implants for 10 years, and they will pay for all replacement costs if their implants fail prior to that timeframe. Also, implant durability is increasing. So is the cohesiveness of the silicone gel (if you opt for silicone implants), meaning that any leakage usually stays within the shell or just outside it and is easy to remove when the ruptured implant is replaced.
Still, it’s a good plan to think you’ll have at least two implant replacement surgeries during your life, depending on how old you are during your initial augmentation, of course. Replacement surgery is easier than the original augmentation, as Dr. Rhee can use the original incision locations again.
Some women opt to have their breast size augmented after they experience their natural size increase during pregnancy and breastfeeding. They found they liked their increased breast fullness and volume.
The question is, if you’ve had augmentation prior to your pregnancy, what will happen to your implants? Natural breasts change with pregnancy and breastfeeding, often flattening and developing some degree of sagging, particularly in the upper breast area. This can occur if you have breast implants, so you may notice some sagging after the process is complete. It usually isn’t dramatic, but Dr. Rhee can address this with a minor breast lift if you’d like. Or you could choose to exchange your implants for larger implants or implants with a different profile.
In most cases, augmentation doesn’t affect the ability to breastfeed. Dr. Rhee predominantly uses the inframammary incision along the breast crease, and this typically doesn’t impact breastfeeding at all.
If possible, it’s best to wait to have breast augmentation until you are finished having children. This eliminates any possible changes due to the natural increase and decrease of the breasts. This is especially true if you plan on having multiple children. You’ll want to be finished breastfeeding for at least three months, preferably six, before opting for augmentation surgery. This lets the breasts return to their natural size and gives your hormone levels time to stabilize.
The majority of women who wish to breastfeed after having breast augmentation are able to do so without any challenges. That said, it’s important to have a thorough conversation with Dr. Rhee about your desire to breastfeed in the future. There is no way to guarantee this goal. Every situation is unique. However, Dr. Rhee can perform surgery using the most appropriate technique to preserve milk ducts, nerve impulses, and other factors that influence milk production and the ability to breastfeed. For example, she may recommend submuscular implant placement to reduce the pressure on the mammary glands. She may carefully plan the incision pattern for implant insertion, understanding that experts have advised against areolar incisions for patients who wish to breastfeed.
It’s not uncommon for patients to harbor concerns about silicone from their breast implants tainting breast milk. This is an old myth that continues to circulate. No evidence of this has been identified in the many years of breast augmentation. In terms of which type of breast implant is better for women who want to breastfeed at some point, studies do not indicate that saline is better than silicone. Both are considered safe. The more important factors to discuss with Dr. Rhee are implant position, size, and incision type.
If you’re an active woman who follows a daily workout routine, you may find the recommended downtime somewhat challenging. Keep in mind that your recovery period is short in comparison to the lifespan of your implants. Six to eight weeks of a break from strenuous exercise is a blink of an eye compared to the decade or longer that your implants can last. Additionally, your commitment to optimal healing in the first couple of months after your breast implant procedure can impact the long-term results of your procedure.
There are several risks associated with working out too soon after breast augmentation. These include:
Before your breast augmentation, talk to Dr. Rhee about your exercise questions. Know that you can begin walking on the day of your surgery, but your distance and time will be limited only to what is necessary. Doing too much too soon after your procedure could significantly increase your post-surgical risks.
The breast augmentation procedure is designed to increase the volume of the breasts. It’s understandable to consider how that volume increase may affect breast shape and height. Fuller breasts may, in fact, very subtly fill out deflated skin to provide some degree of lift. That said, the degree of lift that can be accomplished with breast implants is usually not sufficient to offset the risks of augmentation performed to fix saggy breasts.
Whether you choose saline or silicone breast implants, these devices have weight to them. This means that your breasts will be heavier after your breast augmentation and will thus tug on the skin. If you receive implants without a lift and you already have some breast ptosis, the problem may worsen sooner than it would if you also undergo a breast lift.
Fat transfer breast augmentation, also known as autologous fat grafting, is a natural alternative to traditional breast implants. Instead of using a synthetic implant, this technique enhances breast shape and volume by using your own fat tissue, typically harvested from areas like the abdomen, thighs, or flanks through gentle liposuction. The purified fat graft is then carefully injected into the breasts to sculpt soft, subtle fullness and improved symmetry.
This option is ideal for women who want a modest increase in breast size or desire a more natural look and feel. Because it uses your own tissue, there’s no risk of implant rupture or reaction to a breast implant device, and the results can last for many years. Fat transfer also offers the added benefit of body contouring in the donor areas, creating balanced, elegant results that enhance your silhouette from every angle.
If you are interested in learning more about breast augmentation in Huntington, NY, contact our office at (631) 424-6707 to schedule your free consultation with Dr. Charlotte Rhee.
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