Breast Augmentation for Lewisboro, NY

Getting back outdoors, in stages

Lewisboro is a town for people who like being outside. It has seven lakes, and the main entrance to Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Westchester County’s largest park, is on Route 121 in Cross River. If your week includes long walks, a class at the gym or a morning on the water, when you can return to it belongs at the start of planning a breast augmentation, not the end. Dr. Chang Soo Kim maps that return with you at Bellava in Bedford Hills — about 13 minutes from Cross River and 16 from South Salem without traffic, both by Route 35.

The stages of recovery

Your own timetable is set by Dr. Kim at your follow-up visits, but the outline runs like this:

• The first few days. This is when discomfort, swelling and bruising are at their height, managed with the medication prescribed for you. Gentle walking is the only exercise.
• Within about a week. Most women are back to their usual routine, including work that is not physically demanding.
• Two to three weeks. Light exercise, as the incisions heal and the swelling goes down.
• Four to six weeks. With Dr. Kim’s clearance, low-impact cardio such as a stationary bike, and strength work for the legs.
• Six to eight weeks or more. Anything that loads the chest and arms hard — push-ups, presses, lifting weights — comes last.

Expect to live in a supportive surgical bra for several weeks, switching to a sports bra for workouts once you are cleared. Give the swelling up to a year to settle completely before you judge the final shape.

Is now a good time?

Dr. Kim looks for a few things in someone considering an augmentation:

• good general health, with no medical condition left untreated;
• not smoking, or willing to stop for as long as he asks;
• breasts that have finished developing, and at least six months since you last breastfed;
• a weight that has held steady;
• realistic expectations, and a decision made for yourself rather than to please anyone else.

Your surgeon

Dr. Kim is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery; he studied at the Yale School of Medicine and trained in plastic surgery at Yale–New Haven Hospital. He sets each implant above or below the chest muscle according to your breast size and shape, your skin and the implant chosen, and he operates in Bellava’s Joint Commission–accredited surgical suite. About Dr. Kim.

Lewisboro patients ask

Will my breasts still feel like mine? Your own tissue stays: the implant goes in through a small incision, and nothing is removed to make room for it. Sensation can change for a while early on, and Bellava’s page says it remains intact afterwards.

What if I want only a modest change? Ask about natural fat transfer augmentation, which uses your own fat for a subtler increase.

How do I start? Press Request a Consultation, or call or text, and Bellava’s patient coordinator will call you back. Read the main breast augmentation page and see Dr. Kim’s results first, if you like.