Breast Implant Health Risk

Breast implant health risk includes capsular contracture and rupture/deflation. These two are the most common local complications that occur with both silicone gel-filled and saline-filled breast implants.

Capsular contracture occurs when the scar tissue or capsule that normally forms around the implant tightens and squeezes the implant. It can happen to one or both of the implants. Breast implants do not last a lifetime. Some breast implants may rupture/deflate in the first few months after surgery and some after several years. Others may take 10 or more years to rupture/deflate. The reasons for rupture are not well understood and are currently being studied. Some possible causes of rupture/deflation include:

• Normal aging of the implant

 

• Damage by surgical instruments

 

• Too much handling during surgery

 

• Damage during procedures to the breast, such as biopsies and fluid drainage

 

• Compression during a mammogram

 

• Stresses such as trauma or intense physical pressure

 

• Capsular contracture

 

• Overfilling or under-filling of saline-filled breast implants

 

• Placement through a belly button (umbilical) incision site because it involves too much handling of the implant.

Breast implant health risk is what every patient of breast implant need to undertake. It is likely that you will need to have one or more reoperations over the course of your life because of local complications from breast implants. Reasons for reoperations could include any of the potential local complications found below. Multiple reoperations to either improve the appearance of the breasts, to remove ruptured/deflated implants, or both may result in an unsatisfactory cosmetic outcome.

One type of reoperation is the removal of the implant(s), with or without replacement. Removal involves surgery. You are likely to have your implant removed at some time over the course of your life because of one or more local complications above. Many women decide to have the implants replaced, but some women do not. Women who do not have their implants replaced may have cosmetically undesirable dimpling, puckering, or sagging of the breast following removal of the implant. Of course, the above mentioned breast implant health risk does not happen on every patient who underwent breast implants.

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