You’ll smile when you see how MOOI your breasts have become.
At MOOI Clinic, we’re all about helping you feel beautiful and rediscovering how MOOI your breasts can be. After breast augmentation, you’ll hopefully put on a bikini with more confidence, look proudly at your new chest in the mirror and feel beautiful in all your clothes. As you consider breast augmentation with breast implants, we’d like to tell you what your options are and what steps you can take. During a consultation with a plastic surgeon at our private clinic located in Maastricht, we’ll provide you with all the necessary information so you can make an informed decision.
When to have breast augmentation with implants?
Your breasts bother you, or you feel insecure about them because they are relatively small, droopy or uneven. Then a breast augmentation can be a solution that you’re going to enjoy for the rest of your life. Sometimes breast augmentation is combined with a breast lift when your breasts are very droopy, for example due to weight loss or pregnancy. During the consultation, we not only look at your desired cup size (the volume), but also the shape and desired position of your breasts.
Your choice
No one can decide for you how you feel and how you think about your breasts. What is small for you may be fine for someone else. What you really don’t like about yourself, another person usually thinks isn’t so bad. At MOOI Clinic, we pay attention to your story. Our mission is not so much to make you more MOOI, but to make yourself feel MOOI.
THE TREATMENT PROCESS
From consultation to new breasts
Make an appointment first
Call or email one of our staff members to schedule a consultation. Tell us your plans in advance so we can schedule you with the plastic surgeon who is best for you. You can make an appointment through the appointments page.
Or call: +31 43 311 8708
The consultation from A to Z
You come to MOOI Clinic in Maastricht to discuss your breast augmentation. Write down your wishes and questions in advance so you can ask them at the consultation. During the consultation, you will speak with the plastic surgeon who specializes in breast augmentation about everything from general information about before and after care, to the details such as the breast implants and where the incision will be (it can be in the fold of skin under the breast or via an incision in the armpit or next to the nipple). In all cases, we provide a barely noticeable scar.
During the consultation you can also try on extensive breast implants and we will see what fits your body best. For this, the doctor also measures the current breasts. It is very important to us that you feel good about your choice of implant. Any doubts? If so, please let us know.
We also take the photos for your medical records today. After the consultation, you will be aware of everything about your future breast augmentation: of our honest advice, expected results, risks, recovery and costs. We advise all our clients to quit smoking around the time of treatment. The same applies to the use of nicotine patches and gum.
An initial consultation involves a €50 consultation fee, which will be deducted from the treatment price.
The breast surgery
Breast augmentation takes place under general anesthesia so you won’t feel a thing. The anesthesiologist will put you under anesthesia in the OR. The implant is placed under the breast tissue or partially under the breast muscle and the incisions are sutured. The procedure takes one to two hours. After surgery, you’ll be put into a sports bra and taken to the recovery room.
You can usually go home the same day after surgery. If it goes well and you feel good then you can go home after a checkup. You’re not allowed to drive yourself, so plan in advance how you’ll get home safely. Prior to your surgery, you’re well informed about our aftercare and recovery instructions.
Aftercare and recovery
Before surgery, you will receive detailed post-operative instructions from us. It’s important for your own recovery that you follow these carefully. After surgery, your breasts will feel tense and perhaps painful. That feeling lessens within a few days. Scars may be temporarily red and swollen after the procedure. It is important to take it easy for the first few weeks and not lift anything heavy or exert yourself.
You’ll come for regular check-ups at MOOI Clinic. It’s important to wear an optimally supportive bra immediately; we will inform you about this. After two weeks, we remove the stitches. Even after surgery and outside of checkups, we are always here for you if you have questions! At our clinic, lines are short and we’ll help you as quickly as possible.
In most cases, you can return to work after two weeks. After six weeks, you can slowly begin exercising again and are likely to be fully active again. Read more about aftercare and recovery after breast augmentation here.
The breast implants we place
At MOOI Clinic our plastic surgeons choose implants from the brand Motiva (silicone), B-lite or for saline breast implants
. These implants have been extensively tested and have optimal shape retention with a natural feel. During the consultation, we take a lot of time to fit and discuss the breast implants: what types there are, what are the placement options and the recommended volume.
If you want to enlarge your breasts naturally, you can also consider having breast lipofilling. An added benefit of this technique is that it moves excess fat from unwanted locations to the breasts. In many cases, it’s an excellent alternative when you don’t want breast implants.
BREAST IMPLANT REGISTRATION
Important: All of our breast implants are registered in the DBIR quality registry. Through the DBIR system, plastic surgeons in the Netherlands lead the world in the national registration of breast implants. With this registration system, the manufacturers, the NVPC and the registering plastic surgeons take responsibility for ensuring the quality of care for women with breast implants. At www.implantaatcheck.nl you can locate your breast implants by the serial number of your implant.
As of Jan. 1, 2019, the Care Quality, Complaints and Disputes Act is in effect. Since then, all implants have also been registered in the National Implant Register (LIR). Should a safety risk arise around an implant, the LIR lists which individuals are wearing the implant.
Placement in front or behind the muscle?
The choice of implant (round or anatomical) plays an important role when deciding whether to place implants in front or partly behind the pectoral muscle. There is evidence that placing the implant behind the pectoral muscle (dual plane) is less likely to result in capsular contracture, but is often slightly more sensitive than an implant in front of the muscle during the first few weeks. A disadvantage of breast muscle implants is that the implant is not stopped by the breast muscle, and the breasts may droop more quickly as a result. However, the procedure is slightly less sensitive immediately after surgery and can sometimes give a better breast lift.
Risks
As with any surgery, there is a chance of bleeding, infection or impaired wound healing. This is usually easily treated.
After the placement of a breast implants, the body has the natural reaction to form a layer of connective tissue around the implant, called a capsule. Sometimes the capsule contracts and the breasts become hard and unnaturally round. Unfortunately, no cause for this has yet been found. There’s also a chance that an implant will leak. After 10 years, the chances of this happening is higher.
All risks regarding breast augmentation with implants are described in the a “package insert.” You should read this document carefully before surgery.
We advise all our clients to quit smoking around the time of treatment. The same applies to the use of nicotine patches and gum.
QUIT SMOKING
We advise all our clients to quit smoking around the time of treatment. The same applies to the use of nicotine patches and gum. Smoking not only makes you less MOOI on the outside, but also on the inside. If you smoke, you have a higher risk of complications such as poor wound healing, skin shedding or respiratory problems with general anesthesia.
Experience of other women
Your desire and reasons for having breast augmentation is personal. It is very important to us that you feel good about your choices. We also take the time for you to see what suits you best. Other women who have also had breast augmentation through MOOI Clinic may have faced the same choices and doubts as you are now. So be sure to read their experiences through ZorgkaartNederland.nl.
I am very satisfied with the explanation, treatment, service, aftercare and result.
Drs. Michelle Feijen listened carefully to my wishes and clearly stated what was possible. During a second conversation (because I still had a few questions), she also took the time for me and that was also the confirmation to proceed. In the OR, she was able to reassure me, which made me less nervous going into the anesthesia.
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Our plastic surgeons
Our plastic surgeons
Your appearance is precious to us. We believe that for proper treatment, you need the right people. Training, competence and quality can only be provided with plastic surgeons who understand their profession. We do not want to be the largest clinic in the Netherlands, but the best.
Additional information on breast augmentation
What does breast augmentation cost?
We have all-in prices. After the consultation with the plastic surgeon, you’ll know exactly what your breast augmentation will cost. The price depends on the implants, among other things.
Please note that it is not possible to claim expenses for treatments from health insurance. MOOI only performs procedures for uninsured care.
If you do want to qualify for reimbursement, we’re happy to refer you to one of our hospitals. For this you need a referral from the family doctor. We recommend consulting the terms and conditions of your health insurance policy.
