As women who have had breast implants age along with their silicone or saline breast implants, the number of breast implant failures and problems with deflation, rippling, and capsular contractures continue to increase.

This is not unexpected as the life of a saline implant may only be 10-15 years and the life of a silicone implant 20-25 years. The breasts may become firm or actually very painful and hard, they may become misshapen and asymmetric, they may become malpositioned or start to droop with the breast and become very unsightly for the woman.

Many women keep putting off the inevitable which is to have the breast implant replaced or removed entirely with or without a simultaneous breast lift.

The first thing you should know is that breast implant replacements are safe and may take 1-3 hours of surgery under general anesthesia. The surgery time depends on how much capsular contracture (scarring) there is and whether a breast lift is performed at the same time. Some women opt to have the implants removed and not replaced and have a breast lift to remove the excess breast skin that remains after the implant is removed and want a smaller maintenance free breast in the future.

Most women, honestly, however, elect to have the breast implants replaced, the scar removed and also have a breast lift if needed. At the age of 40 or younger you might say “when I am 60 or 65, I will not want to have fuller, rounder breasts, I won’t care about my breasts at that age”, let me reassure you that as I have come to take care of more and more women in their 60s and even into their 70s, you WILL care about your breasts and you will want your breasts to be pretty at that age. As long as your heart and lungs are healthy at that point, there is no reason you cannot have the breast implants replaced.

I have included one set of photographs as an example of what can happen with breast implants when the ripple and deflate and how nice they can look like after the breast implant replacement with removal of the scarring capsular contracture and repositioning them to under the muscle.

After Breast Implant Replacement and Capsular Contracture Removal

Implant Deflation and Rippling with Textured Saline Breast Implants

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