Is it possible to have a shoulder deltoid implant to make your shoulders wider?

Instead of considering surgery, why not work out one side more than the other?

Yes. But as you age, they will move and you will look awfully funny. Stop examining yourself in the mirror for faults. You are bound to find them and become obsessed. The ancients were right in that the sin of vanity is costly. Earn your delts.

All you can do by muscle is build a bit, even then my shoulders will look more muscly but wont change much in terms of width.

Welcome to Fluther.

I don’t doubt that such a surgery is at least possible. So, yes, I’m sure “it can be done”. But I doubt whether an ethical surgeon would perform that surgery without a lot of questions – and assurances that you can’t yet deliver, I think – beforehand.

An ethical surgeon would question you – I think (I’m not a surgeon, so I can’t say for certain what they would or should do) – about your reasons for wanting this surgery, and all its attendant risk, for such a relatively minor outcome. After all, a single centimeter over the width of a normal person’s shoulders seems pretty niggling and insignificant. I can certainly understand someone wanting to reduce a centimeter from the length of a nose, for example. That’s right in the middle of your face, and a centimeter there is a lot. Over the width of a normal person, though? The ethical surgeon should counsel you first to “seek counseling” about why you have such a negative and hyper-critical body image that this is a significant thing for you.

So that’s what I would do, too, is to suggest that you speak to a counselor before you speak to a surgeon.

Does this minor disfigurement cause you pain, restrict your range of motion, or otherwise negatively impact your life in a material way?

Because if not, I would sooner suggest therapy for body dysmorphia than surgery for a shoulder width discrepancy.

Somewhat relevant, somewhat off topic: My husband has a friend with a withered arm. He was born that way – simply had no muscle development in his left arm. So what did he do? He worked the other one out like crazy. Built it up massive. Then he’d walk into a bar with his jacket hung over his right arm and challenge people to arm wrestle him for money. Once they were sitting down he’d throw off the jacket.

Seeing the look on their faces was always good fun.

I have been a member here for over 7 years now…honestly this is the not the best place to get a reliable answer to a medical question such as yours.