There are many reasons why women have plastic surgery performed on their breasts.  For some women, their breasts may be too small, for others it may be a need to correct an imbalance or perhaps reconstruct their breasts after a mastectomy.
Whatever your decision, your consideration of breast implants, for either reconstruction or augmentation, should be based on realistic expectations of the results.
With that in mind, please review the list of several procedures below.

Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation can enhance your appearance, improve your self-confidence, and broaden your ability to wear different clothing fashions by changing the shape and size of your breasts to better match your body style. Also, breast augmentation is used to rebalance a voluptuous figure, correct lost volume resulting from age or pregnancies, and balance asymmetrical breasts.

The incision can be made in the crease where the breast meets the chest (inframammary), around the areola (periareolar), or in the belly button (scarless breast augmentation). Working through the incision, your breast tissue and skin will be lifted to create a pocket, either directly behind the breast tissue (subglandular) or underneath your chest wall muscle (subpectoral) and the implants are then centered beneath your nipples. There are a variety of implant types, textures, and shapes available, and the choice is made based on the look you desire.

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Breast Lift

Over time, the effects of gravity along with the loss of the skin's natural elasticity begins to have a negative impact on the appearance of a woman's breasts.  These factors, combined with pregnancies and nursing will often cause the breasts to lose their youthful shape and firmness.

A breastlift, or mastopexy, is a surgical procedure to raise and reshape sagging breasts.  The procedure can also reduce the size of the areola (the darker skin surrounding the nipple).  Breast implants inserted in conjunction with a mastopexy procedure can increase both firmness and size.

Breast Reduction

Large, pendulous breasts may cause a woman to potentially experience various medical problems caused by the excessive weight of the breast tissue.  Problems with posture, skeletal deformities, back and neck pain, skin irritations and breathing problems are common with this condition.  Bra straps often leave indentations in the shoulder area.  Many women, especially teenage girls, are very self-conscious if they have unusually large breasts.

Breast reduction (reduction mammaplasty) removes fat, glandular tissue, and excessive skin, resulting in smaller, lighter and firmer breasts that are better-shaped in proportion to rest of the body.