A woman received the world’s first injectable breast implant procedure, which took her from a small B cup to a C in 15 minutes.
Erin Alexander and plastic surgeon Dr Adrian Richards, from London’s iQonic Aesthetics, who is one of the first doctors in the UK to offer the procedure, joined Josie Gibson and Rylan Clark on This Morning on Tuesday.
The mother, who had the procedure 13 days earlier, claimed she was out walking the next day and was back doing mild exercise a few days later.
He said: “Downtime is pretty minimal. I’ve gone from a small B to a C or D, obviously they’re still settling in, so I’m not too sure about the size yet, but I’m definitely seeing a fullness that I never had before.’
Demonstrating how it’s done, Dr Richards said: ‘Now Erin would be completely numb, I’d make a small incision just behind her beak, and then we’d make a little tunnel and the next stage is you’d have to blow this balloon.
Erin Alexander received the world’s first injectable breast implant procedure, which took her from a small B cup to a C in 15 minutes
“Then we leave it in for a bit so everything relaxes around it, then you deflate it, take it out, and then the diamond-shaped implant is already here. This is the first ever injectable implant and the UK is leading the way.”
Traditional breast implant surgery is usually performed under general anesthesia and the operation involves making an incision under the breast to place the implant – either between the breast tissue and the chest muscle.
It can take a few weeks to fully recover from traditional surgery, where patients are advised to take two weeks off work and are left with scars under the breasts.
Erin said the thought of having scars turned her away from the traditional breast implant route.
She said: “I never wanted to feel like I had done anything, the scars were a major handicap for me, the downtime and then when I found out about Mia [minimal invasive augmentation]minimal downtime and no scarring of the breast tissue ticked all those boxes.’
Mia implants offer a new alternative to traditional breast augmentation with minimal downtime and natural results.
Erin added: “I didn’t want to look unnatural, I still wanted to look like me and I just gave myself the body I always wanted, I was always quite small and never felt like I was in proportion and now I have the breasts I always wanted.”
Erin and plastic surgeon Dr Adrian Richards, from iQonic Aesthetics, in London, who is one of the first doctors in the UK to offer the procedure, joined Josie Gibson and Rylan Clark on This Morning on Tuesday.
The mother, who had the procedure 13 days earlier, claimed she was out walking the next day and was back doing mild exercise a few days later
Talking about how easy the process was, Erin revealed that the whole process took around 45 minutes and she ‘chatted’ throughout
What is the Mia FemTech procedure?
It can take a few weeks to fully recover from traditional surgery, where patients are advised to take two weeks off work and are left with scars under the breasts
The Mia FemTech procedure is a minimally invasive breast augmentation technique that uses a patented device to inject breast implants without the use of a scalpel.
The process steps:
Friday
The incision area under the arm is disinfected and a local anesthetic is administered.
Section
A small incision is made in a hidden area, usually in the armpit.
Implant placement
A dilation balloon is inserted to create space between the pectoral muscle and the mammary gland.
A high-tech device then creates a channel in the breast and injects the implant. The implant is placed in front of the pectoral muscle and behind the mammary gland.
Closure
The incision is closed with stitches and a surgical bandage is applied
What advantage does this have?
The tissues are preserved so the procedure is safer, less painful and minimally invasive
Breast sensitivity does not change
Speedy recovery
Source: miafemtech.com
Talking about how easy the process was, Erin revealed that the whole process took about 45 minutes and she “chatted” the whole time.
She said: “For the process itself, I was awake and chatting, it didn’t take more than 15 minutes to put them on.”
Dr. Richards said the downside to the procedure is that you can only go up a size or two because the implants are so small and the cost is similar to traditional implants.
Reconstructive and cosmetic surgeon Dr Paul Banwell previously said Harper’s Bazaar that “Mia Femtech offers countless benefits to the patient.”
He said: “Shorter treatment time, no requirement for general anaesthesia, very low post-operative pain and only a small, hidden scar in the armpit.”
This is due to the biocompatible implant itself as well as the “revolutionary local anesthetic technique” used to insert it.
He added: “For me, this procedure represents a new paradigm in breast aesthetics.”
Dr Richards said the downside to the procedure is that you can only go up a size or two because the implants are so small and the cost is similar to traditional implants
Demonstrating how it’s done, Dr Richards said: “Now Erin would be completely numb.”
Mia Femtech’s website is also full of glowing reviews, with many specifically praising the lack of scarring.
“Mia makes me feel like my body type,” wrote one. “My scar is almost visible and the size is exactly what I wanted.”
“I wasn’t looking for something hedonistic, but the harmony Mia created completes me and makes me very happy,” gushed another.
A third said: “Before Mia I felt insecure. I felt that the beast affected my appearance and I wanted to regain my appearance before.”
Talking to you ELLE about the procedure earlier this year, plastic surgeon Dr. Jorge Planas also recounted how the procedure represents a remarkable evolution in the way we view breast augmentation.
“People evolve over time, and so do our tastes, beliefs and way of understanding life. For a few years now I have been seeing this “evolution” in the women who come to my office. they seek proportion and harmony in their bodies, they break away from stereotypes,” he said.
They break away from the “figure 10” and choose what “is good for me”. I think we’ve left behind the cult of the bulging breast.’
He explained that the final product, after Mia, is “very natural” because of the “space created right in the center of the breast to place a diamond-shaped implant that will fill the patient’s current breasts.”
The doctor continued: “Therefore, this breast, which may be empty, half-empty or very small, fills up, acquiring sizes of 1 or 2 breast cups, but in such a natural way that even the patient herself cannot feel her intention . ,’
