Some degree of breast pain is common after breast augmentation surgery.  With time and proper adherence to surgical care instructions, the breast pain that most women experience subsides, as do the swelling, bruising, and other initial side effects of breast augmentation surgery.  In some cases, however, breast pain does not subside and becomes a serious complication of breast augmentation surgery.

Breast implant safety studies have indicated that between five and twenty percent of all breast augmentation patients experience breast pain three to five years after surgery.  Breast pain is the number one reason that women seek breast implant removal or replacement after the original surgery.