Yes, your ribcage has a shape.
These are things you don’t think about often, but I do. Breast implants over time tend to migrate down and out. (Unless you have a capsular contracture.) I like to go behind the muscle. See my reasons why.
The women at the extremes know about ribcage shape.
- pectus excavatum where your sternum is indented. You have a deep valley between your two breasts due to bone. When you lie down your chest wall looks like a V shape.
- pectus carinatum “pigeon chest” where your sternum protrudes out and your ribs slope. When you lie down your chest looks like an inverted V.
- “Normal” is when you lie down your sternum and ribs are in the same horizontal plane.
If your ribs have a downward slope to them, over time your implants will have more risk of migration. This rib shape absolutely benefits from the anatomic style 410 gummy bear silicone gel breast implant. The anatomic implants are textured, so they stick where you put them better. Imagine it is like a Velcro, which help holds your breast in place.
If your ribs slope inward and your sternum is indented, then your cleavage area tends to look “more busty” with a smaller implant, because your cleavage is in a valley so the breast mounds seem taller (imagine a mountain next to flat land versus a mountain next to a valley or gorge. which mountain looks taller?)
How can you assess your ribcage shape?
- Lie down flat.
- Look at the slope of the ribs. this may be easier for someone at eye level near your feet to see than you can see.
- Is it flat?
- Does it indent in the center?
- Does it peak in the center over the sternum and slope quickly outward? Could you put a book on your right side of your chest and it stays there or does it slide off onto the floor?