I know someone whose wife... ...got overfilled to 1400cc and per her husband, they're quite firm, almost unpleasantly so. This is her 3rd BA.
It would be interesting if there were some sort of universal "softness chart" which folks could reference and be on the same page....
That's what I thought. Surgeons should have different implants of various firmness, calibrated to a standard scale for women to feel and choose from. Until the FDA approves silicone implants and saline shells 1000 cc and larger, women with extra large implants will always have to be very firm overfilled saline. From her posts on BEA Forum, I learned that Christina is something like 800 cc overfilled to 1200 cc and wanted to go larger but didn't because it would have made her breasts too firm.
Not a bad idea. At least if you examine implants from manufacturer X overfilled to volume Y.
However, I *think* some variance would be added by actually implanting them. In part from the extra tissue (or lack thereof) covering the breast, in part from the shape of the implant pocket. (I would also add, in part depending on whether the implant is over or under the muscle, except that with the larger sizes, going under adds its own challenges.)
I was actually thinking of something analogous to the pain reference chart:
http://white-coat.tumblr.com/post/1286502632/pain-reference-chartdue to the similarly subjective nature of softness/firmness of an object (vs the subjective nature of assessing one's own pain).
I mean, there are quite a few variations on this theme. If one person says "they feel like perky natural breasts" even that can have a fairly wide variance. Or even "indistinguishable from natural breast tissue" can have some variance, as one woman's natural breast tissue can be quite a bit firmer than another woman's natural breast tissue.
If you say something like "like a rock covered by 1cm of leather" then you have something a little more quantifiable.
It's like seeing a photo of an object on the floor or on a tabletop. We might all be able to make reasonable guesses, but as soon as you put a can of Coke next to it, suddenly our sense of perspective is honed in considerably. (Realizing of course that there might be some variance in the size of the can of Coke from country to country.)
Just thinking out loud here. Don't really have a solid answer for this yet.