| | | | | However, if you are physically healthy, do not |
| Perhaps because breast augmentation is one of | | | | have any chronic diseases or ongoing health |
| the most popular cosmetic surgery procedures, | | | | issues, then candidacy for breast augmentation |
| many women wonder what the best age to get | | | | improves. |
| breast augmentation is. This obviously applies to | | | | There has been some controversy as to how |
| younger women, but there are women who are | | | | mature women must be for breast augmentation. |
| older who may be wondering if they should wait, | | | | The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states |
| or if they’ve waited too long. However, is it | | | | that young women must be at least 18-years-old |
| because younger women are more influenced by | | | | for this procedure. Because having fully developed |
| pop culture and what they perceive as beauty? | | | | breasts is one of the prerequisites for breast |
| Or is it that one day women look in the mirror | | | | augmentation, it is understandable why cosmetic |
| and decide that today is the day they’re | | | | surgeons and the FDA want women to be at |
| going to enquire about enhancing their breasts? | | | | least 18. Also, women who are 18 are getting |
| It’s probably a little of both, and it certainly | | | | ready to go off to college. |
| depends on the psychology, social environment, | | | | College is a time where we not only further our |
| and other factors. However, the question remains: | | | | education, but begin to really develop our sense |
| What is the best age to get breast | | | | of self away from family. Perhaps college is the |
| augmentation? The short answer is anywhere | | | | best time to enhance or change our appearance |
| between the ages of 18 and 50. The long answer | | | | as well. Still, young women are more heavily |
| is a bit more complicated, as it is a personal | | | | influenced by what they see around them, not |
| decision and up to the individual considering it. | | | | only by their peers, but by what they read in |
| As women age, their breasts begin to sag, thanks | | | | magazines and see on television. It’s one thing |
| to the wonders of gravity. If the breast | | | | to want to look like your favorite movie star or |
| augmentation candidate has had children, they | | | | musician, but it’s another to be mentally |
| probably noticed some sagging after breast | | | | prepared to actually change your appearance. |
| feeding their child, perhaps as early as their late | | | | Having realistic expectations of how you will look |
| 20s or early 30s. Also, as women age, certain | | | | for years to come is one of the important |
| health factors come into play. Recovery takes | | | | aspects of the decision for breast augmentation. |
| longer and the risks involved in the procedure | | | | And, once again, the better the health, the better |
| increase. The procedure may also have a lower | | | | the candidacy. |
| success rate if the patient is older than 50. | | | | |