Small Breast Augmentation New Jersey
If you want a refined, natural-looking enhancement, small breast augmentation, also called “ballerina breast augmentation,” “yoga breast augmentation,”or “fit shape augmentation,” can provide the perfect balance of shape, proportion, and confidence. I specialize in breast augmentation surgery, tailoring each procedure to the patient’s unique frame and aesthetic goals. Whether you desire a slight increase in volume or improved breast symmetry, my approach ensures results that look elegant, harmonious, and completely natural.
With 29 years of experience, I specialize in breast augmentation procedures. I combine surgical precision with an artist’s vision to refine and shape the body in a way that enhances—not overpowers—your natural beauty. Patients from across the country and around the world seek my expertise because of my reputation for achieving beautifully balanced, customized outcomes.
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What Is a Small Breast Augmentation?
A small breast augmentation is a subtle, refined approach to enhancing breast size and shape. Instead of a dramatic volume increase, this procedure focuses on natural-looking, proportional enhancements that complement your frame while maintaining elegance and balance. Patients who opt for a small breast augmentation typically desire a modest boost in fullness, improved symmetry, or a more youthful contour without an exaggerated appearance.
Benefits of Small Breast Augmentation:
- Natural-looking enhancement that aligns with your body’s proportions
- Improved breast shape and symmetry for a balanced, harmonious silhouette
- Boosted confidence with subtle, elegant results
- Minimized discomfort and recovery time compared to larger augmentations
- More conservative implant sizes or fat transfer for a gentle refinement
This approach is ideal for those who want subtle enhancement without sacrificing natural movement or aesthetic harmony. I tailor every procedure to fit your individual goals, ensuring results that enhance your beauty and overall confidence.
Meet Scott SpiRo, M.D., F.A.C.S.
SURGEON BY TRADE
As a board-certified plastic surgeon, I specialize in deep-plane facelifts, neck lifts, breast procedures (augmentation, reduction, reconstruction, and en bloc type implant removal for breast implant illness), and body contouring surgeries like mommy makeovers and tummy tucks. My unique approach blends medical expertise with an artist’s vision to create natural-looking, transformative results.
ARTIST AT HEART
My passion for art extends beyond surgery—I have illustrated journal articles, book chapters, and patient education materials. My office features reproductions of my oil paintings, graphite drawings, and photography, reflecting my dedication to aesthetics and precision.
Small Breast Augmentation Candidates
Ideal candidates for a small breast augmentation including individuals who are:
- Physically healthy
- Have fully developed breasts
- Are not pregnant or breastfeeding
- Have realistic expectations for their results
If you smoke, vape, or use any type of nicotine, cannabinoid, and/or ADHD medication, you must be willing to stop for 6 – 12 weeks before and after your surgery.
Why You Might Consider a Small Breast Augmentation
You might consider small breast augmentation if you feel your breasts are slightly smaller than you’d like in proportion to your body, have subtle asymmetry, or have experienced natural volume loss due to aging, pregnancy, or weight fluctuations.
This procedure offers a refined, natural enhancement, providing just the right amount of shape and fullness without an exaggerated look. Whether you’re seeking a balanced silhouette or a gentle boost in confidence, small breast augmentation is a personalized option to help you feel comfortable and proud of your body.
What to Expect from a Small Breast Augmentation Consultation
During your consultation, I will take the time to understand your specific aesthetic goals and assess your unique body proportions. We’ll discuss your medical history, current medications, and any allergies to ensure a safe and effective treatment plan. My team and I will also review the potential risks and expected outcomes so that you feel fully informed and confident in your decision.
A critical part of the evaluation is examining your underlying torso shape, which plays a significant role in implant selection and surgical success. Factors, such as natural asymmetries, chest wall contours, and variations like pectus excavatum or pectus carinatum, must be carefully considered to achieve the most harmonious, natural-looking results. We will explore various implant options, including size, shape, material, and placement, to determine the safest and most effective approach for your goals. My priority is to tailor every detail of the procedure to your unique anatomy, ensuring elegant, balanced results that complement your frame.
Small Breast Augmentation Options
I tailor every small breast augmentation to match each patient’s unique anatomy and aesthetic goals. This procedure offers several options for achieving a refined, natural enhancement. Implants come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and materials, allowing for a subtle yet noticeable improvement in breast volume and symmetry. I may place implants either below the pectoral muscle or below the breast gland and above the muscle (subfascial) to ensure a smooth, natural contour or to achieve a fake and round look. For those seeking the most organic approach, fat transfer is an excellent alternative, using your own body fat to enhance breast shape without implants. During your consultation, we will explore each option to determine the best solution for achieving elegant, balanced results.
Implant types
Breast implants come in silicone or saline, each offering unique benefits. Silicone implants feel more natural and consist of a vicious gel, while saline implants come as an empty shell that is filled with a sterile solution, allowing for size adjustments and smaller incision. I use the latest generation six silicone gel implants, which have the least rippling of all implants.
Implant shapes and sizes
Implants are available in round or teardrop (contoured) shapes. Round implants provide fuller upper breast volume, while teardrop implants create a more natural slope.
Teardrop implants must be textured. There are long-term consequences with textured implants, so I do not use these.
Fat Transfer
For a subtle enhancement without implants, fat transfer uses your own body fat to increase breast volume and improve contour. This option may offer a soft, natural feel with no foreign materials.
How to Prepare for Your Small Breast Augmentation
Proper preparation ensures a smooth procedure and optimal recovery. Before surgery, you’ll need to complete a blood test and avoid certain medications, supplements, and vitamins that could interfere with healing. If you smoke, it’s important to quit beforehand, as smoking can affect recovery and increase surgical risks. Additionally, you should stop taking anti-inflammatory drugs or aspirin, as they may lead to excessive bleeding, and stop amphetamine-type diet or ADHD medications.
Since you won’t be able to drive home after surgery, make arrangements for a trusted relative or friend to transport you and provide support during the initial recovery period. Following these guidelines will help ensure the safest and most effective results.
Breast Augmentation Surgery
I perform small breast augmentation under general anesthesia to ensure comfort throughout the procedure. For implant-based augmentation, I make a small incision in the breast fold to create a precise pocket. The position and placement of the implants depend on your unique body type, as well as the size and shape of the implants selected. Once positioned correctly, I close the incisions with layered sutures, skin adhesive, or sutures for optimal healing. The entire surgery typically takes less than two hours. Sophisticated nerve blocks performed by anesthesia greatly diminish any pain to a minimum.
For fat transfer breast augmentation, I use liposuction to remove excess fat from another area of the body. This procedure requires only minimal incisions for fat extraction, followed by careful placement into the breasts for a natural enhancement. Like implant augmentation, fat transfer is performed under general anesthesia, ensuring a safe and seamless experience.
Small Breast Augmentation Recovery
Before you leave, my team and I will provide detailed post-operative instructions, including breast care guidelines and prescribed oral medications to support healing and comfort. In the first few days, you may experience soreness and swelling around the implant pockets. These are normal effects as your body adjusts to the procedure. Swelling will gradually subside, and your incision lines will fade over time with proper care. Recovery time varies from patient to patient, but most individuals heal fully within six weeks. My priority is to ensure a smooth recovery process, minimizing discomfort while helping you achieve optimal results.
Ballerina Breast Augmentation FAQs in New Jersey
Breast implants can last many years, while fat transfer results are more dependent on how your body absorbs the fat over time.
In most cases, yes, you can still breastfeed after a small breast augmentation. Neither the surgery nor the implants themselves will affect or disturb the breast glands or milk ducts, or the quality of the breast milk.
Yes! I focus on precise placement and proportional enhancement to ensure subtle, balanced, and natural-looking results unless you are looking for a fake look—I can achieve that too.
Wow, right to the point I see. No build up or excitement or teaser? Ok, ballerina breast augmentation refers to small volume breast augmentation simply stated.
Yes, it also can be called “yoga breast augmentation” or “fit look breast augmentation”
Well, the goal is to enhance the breast in a way that compliments a slender, athletic physique, mirroring the aesthetic of ballet dancers. It focuses on creating a more natural, subtle, and proportional enhancement of the breast.
These outcomes are facilitated by the use of smaller, lower-profile implants. This allows me to improve breast fullness and enhance shape without creating a dramatic change, while at the same time refining an elegant appearance.
That is a difficult one to answer. These are definitely recent terms, born out of social media and coined within the last four years or so. The concept of small breast augmentation, however, has been around for decades. In recent years, the idea of smaller, more natural-looking breast augmentation has gained traction, reflecting a shift toward a more athletic, toned physique for women.
Definitely not. There are still very many women who want larger, fuller, and fake or ‘fakeish’ looking breasts. It is just that this concept of ballerina breast augmentation has gained the most traction recently.
Excellent question. Yes, this surgery is done with breast implants; however, fat grafting or fat transfer can, in theory, be an alternative to breast implants to achieve subtle enhancements. There are three main issues with this. Firstly, you need a certain amount of fat to be collected in order to perform fat grafting. In fact, you need a fairly significant amount so that, after processing, there is a reasonable volume available to transfer into the breasts. You need much more fat liposuctioned out than you might think in order to ultimately increase breast volume by a cup size or two.
So, if you think you want to enhance the breast by 150–200 cc each, that means a permanent volume increase. Not all the fat stays or ‘takes.’ It is impossible for all of it to survive. Anyone who claims all the fat stays either has very little experience or is not being truthful. Fat take is related to the location of implantation, and the female breast is not as reliable a recipient site as, say, the buttocks. Fat likes fat—meaning it prefers to be placed where other fat exists. It doesn’t do as well being placed in or around glandular tissue, and it performs better in already larger breasts.
But that is not the case for ballerina or yoga breast augmentation patients. They are leaner and more fit to begin with, have small breasts, and far less donor fat available.
Back to the numbers: if you need 150–200 cc per breast, that means you need 300–400 cc to remain in total. If you expect roughly 50% to dissolve, then you actually need 600–800 cc of healthy, reliable post-processed fat to be placed. I am very particular with the processing and injection technique, and I do see a high percentage take.
To get 800 cc of fat post-processing, you would need about 1,000–1,600 cc of liposuctioned aspirate. That could require multiple donor areas, even if achievable from a lean, fit body.
So, problem one is donor fat availability, and problem two is the lack of predictable fat take in the female breast compared with other areas, like the buttocks.
Yes. Once fat is placed in the female breast, some will naturally dissolve, but some may micro-calcify or form micro- or macro-cysts. This is not a big deal in the buttocks, but it is significant in breasts, which are imaged with mammograms and ultrasounds. It could lead to unnecessary concern for those patients—problem number three.
Problem number four involves the stem cells that accompany the fat during the transfer process. Stem cells in fat transfer are considered the ‘holy grail’ for tissue remodeling when used in the face, hands, or buttocks, and this is generally a good thing. In breasts, however, stem cells are very controversial. It is unknown whether they could transform or encourage pre-cancerous cells to become cancerous.
Hence, fat transfer into existing native breast tissue (as opposed to mastectomy tissue, where the breast is no longer present) involves many variables that detract from predictable outcomes. Breast implants, by contrast, are more predictable and, quite frankly, simpler and safer.
Most implants used today are silicone gel–filled implants, although saline implants can also be used. The main drawbacks of saline implants are the potential for rippling and greater susceptibility to gravity-related malposition issues, such as downward drift or lateralization.
Well, many of those who are listening to this podcast have heard me say in my other podcasts that gravity is king. It is undefeated and has never lost a match. Water (saline) happens to be more affected by gravity than silicone gel due to its physical properties. It will tend to drop or lateralize over time more so than gel-filled implants. The larger and more round any implant is, the greater the likelihood that it will lateralize or drop—shear physics. Adding to this are the biomechanical forces at play when implants are placed under the muscle. But again, in Ballerina Breast Augmentation, we are using small implants, so gravity-related complications are far less of a concern.
Twenty-nine years in private practice and eight years of training before that. Here’s the thing: I’ve done thousands of breast surgeries. I spent the first nine years of practice doing exclusively saline implants for augmentation because of the ’90s moratorium on previous-generation gel implants. So, I got very good at fighting gravity—very creative. I have a perspective that many don’t have. I’ve seen us go from generation 4 to generation 6 implants and the irrational exuberance over textured implants.
Small-volume saline, flatter-profile implants are actually okay. Smaller-volume silicone gel implants, too. They both behave more predictably and are well suited for the Ballerina Breast. Fit Breast Augmentation, Ballerina, and Yoga Breast Augmentation have an athletic connotation, which means these concepts go hand in hand with pre-pectoral, over-the-muscle implant placement. Combined with an internal bra-strap–like support of slowly absorbable mesh, small implant augmentation has really taken hold.
Well, I appreciate the acknowledgment. Art is a passion of mine, ingrained in everything I do: painting, furniture design, interior design, architecture. That is why I am so passionate about this subject—a perfect marriage of art and beauty. I love shape and proportion. I’ve heard that said about me by my colleagues before, and I appreciate it.
Certainly. During a consultation, I perform a detailed exam and form a plan instantly. But I respect my patients, and I want their insight. I gain that insight by listening. I pride myself on being a good listener, and I love collaboration. I let patients tell me what they want and why they want it from an outcome. I gently guide them along the decision-making path. I have patients show me “like images” of the results they desire. It is a two-step, two-visit process.
Beyond artistry, I like to pride myself on precision and caring. Surgery is performed under general anesthesia at the hospital across the street from our office. It is a simple outpatient procedure, with weekly follow-ups for the first four weeks so I can ensure everything is healing according to my exacting and very high standards. By four weeks, full exercise can be resumed.
I am so happy you asked this. Many listeners have heard my last podcast, where I talked about the paradigm shift in breast augmentation, which is related to a return to implant placement over the muscle—now refined as subfascial or prepectoral breast augmentation. This is key and ties everything together.
In fitness and yoga, physique building is a primary concern. The shift away from submuscular implant placement facilitates this. Hence, it aligns perfectly with and complements the notion of Yoga Breast Augmentation, where chest and pectoralis function and preservation are so important.
I encourage people to listen to my other podcasts, explore the website, read our Google reviews, and come in for a consultation. They can find us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @spiroplasticsurgery, as well as on our website, drspiro.com.
