If you’ve made the decision to have breast augmentation surgery and you’ve chosen a board-certified plastic surgeon, you now face the important step of selecting the breast implant that will suit your goals.

Here are three ways to ensure that you make the right decision:

• A full medical appraisal to match your age, weight, skin and body type and general health to an implant that best suits you from a medical standpoint.Some implants may not be suitable at all so you might as well eliminate those at the outset.
• Define your body image goals.Be sure you are clear about what size and shape you feel is ideal and discuss candidly with your plastic surgeon what you hope to achieve. This will help you to determine realistic goals and avoid disappointment later.
• Try them on for size.  Your plastic surgeon will let you touch and handle – and try on – any of the various implant sizes, shapes, and textures.He will also let you view ‘before and after’ photos to help you visualize results.

By the time your surgery date rolls around if you feel confident that you have made the right choice and are in possession of the full information you can look forward to successfully realizing your realistic goals.