Breast Enlargement Surgery – What to bring to your sizing appointment

Hi, I’m Aggie Oakley. I manage the Northampton Aurora Clinics. I tend to do an awful lot of the breast sizings for Mr. Richards and the other consultants working in the practice. Now, when I actually do a breast sizing, I tend to ask the patients to bring lots of different tops along with them. Tops that they don’t wear now or they won’t wear because of their shape. Tops that they wear generally, so tops that they go to the gym, tops if they’re going out, what they wear to work. Just so when we do the sizing, we can get a very good, and the patient can get a very good image of how they’re going to look in their clothes after the procedure. And it does help considerably with the sizing, because they’ll know what the result is going to look like.

With the sizing, I do actually ask patients to really read up on the information that Mr. Richards has given to them at the first consultation, so we can discuss any questions that they’ve actually sort of held onto, or maybe not spoken to Mr. Richards, or they’ve thought about them after they left the consultation. And we tend to discuss those at that sizing appointment. Also at the sizing appointment, we do discuss all the risks of the procedure again, because the whole journey of the procedure from actually being admitted to the hospital right through to their six weeks discharge, and that involves the whole journey of the procedure from actually being admitted to the hospital right through to their six weeks discharge. That involves the patient, when they come into the hospital, what to expect at the hospital, how they’ll feel post-surgery wise, pain wise, how the breasts look swollen. We then go onto their post-op care, when we get them back to clinic. We also discuss bras, what they can wear and what they can’t wear, the length of time they’ll be wearing some sort of surgical bra.

So the sizing appointment is very important really, because we tend to sort out any other queries for the patient at that appointment. It’s actually a fun appointment as well. I tend to normally have groups of friends or partners, mums and daughters come in for those appointments. It tends to be a little bit more relaxed than probably the first consultation.