Calf implants offer a safe and effective way to enhance the shape, proportion and definition of the lower legs. For many individuals, achieving calf muscle development through exercise alone can be difficult due to genetics, natural muscle structure or previous injury.
Calf implants are silicone devices designed to enhance the volume, projection and contour of the calf region. They are placed carefully beneath the muscle fascia to create a natural appearance that mimics well developed calf muscles. The implants come in various shapes and sizes, allowing your surgeon to choose a configuration that blends seamlessly with your anatomy.
Unlike exercise based muscle development, calf implants provide consistent and predictable enhancement tailored specifically to your goals.
Calf implant surgery may be appropriate for individuals who:
Your consultant at 101 Harley Street will carry out a comprehensive assessment to confirm suitability, evaluate calf muscle shape and discuss implant options based on your goals.
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Calf shape plays an important role in overall leg aesthetics. Well defined calf contours create a balanced and athletic lower leg silhouette. For those who cannot achieve this shape through training alone, calf implants provide a refined solution.
The most common motivations include:
Some individuals experience significant differences in calf muscle size or shape. Calf implants can correct these disparities and restore balanced proportions.
Calf implants are used in reconstruction after trauma, muscle wasting, congenital deformities or neurological conditions affecting calf development.
Calf augmentation is highly customisable, allowing your surgeon to select the ideal implant size and shape to match your natural anatomy.
Placed on the inner side of the calf to enhance natural curvature and definition. This is the most common type of calf augmentation.
Placed on the outer side of the calf when additional width or correction is needed. Used less commonly than medial implants.
For individuals requiring enhancement on both inner and outer calf regions, combined implants create a fuller, more pronounced contour.
It is common to have questions about a surgical procedure. Some key questions here that we receive from patients considering a Calf implants.
If you are looking for more general information about what happens from your first consultation to aftercare visit our Your Journey page to understand how we guide each patient through the consultation, surgery, and recovery process within our Harley Street surgical centre.
Yes. Calf implants provide long lasting results. Once healed, the implants remain stable and require no routine maintenance.
Most patients resume normal walking soon after calf implant surgery. Exercise should be reintroduced gradually under your surgeon’s guidance.
Calf implants are placed beneath the muscle fascia, which allows them to blend naturally with the existing calf muscle shape.
Yes. Calf implants are highly effective for treating natural or acquired asymmetry between the lower legs.
Initial improvements are visible immediately, but final results develop over several weeks as swelling reduces and the implants settle.
Individuals with certain medical conditions or those unable to undergo anaesthesia may not be suitable. A consultation confirms eligibility.
Our generously proportioned theatre can accommodate cases performed under general anaesthetic, intravenous sedation and local anaesthetic. We also have two treatment/consultation rooms where consultations and other minor operative procedures can be performed.
Our spacious, newly modernised operating theatre has been designed and equipped to provide surgeons and anaesthetists with an optimised environment to perform ambulatory day case surgical procedures. It is a very flexible space and can accommodate a wide range of non-infectious cases performed with local anaesthesia, IV sedation or full TIVA general anaesthesia (ASA Grade 1 and 2 only).
To learn more about what is involved before, during and after surgery, visit our journey page below.
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