Plastic Surgery Breast Implants – Saline Or Silicone?
Before you go for your breast enlargements, it is useful to do some research to see the most suitable types of breast implants for you. The following are the bare basics regarding breat implants.
Breast implant devices are of two varieties, saline breast implants (approved by the FDA in 2000) and silicone breast implants. Both are equally useful. However silicone devices have had a chequered history. They were first approved for use by the FDA in 1963, banned in 1992 on the grounds that it could be risky for health and later reapproved by the FDA in 2006. See the timeline for the development of silicone breast implants here: http://www.surgery.org/press/downloads/BITFtimeline.pdf
Silicone implants are generally the more popular, as they were more natural in feel and looks and the implant has the same texture as natural breast tissue.
Saline implants stand the same chance of rupture as silicone implants. However if saline implants rupture, the saline just dissipates into the body without any harm, and the implant deflates quite obviously.
If silicone implants rupture, the breast still looks and feels the same as the gel leaks into the surrounding tissues without any difference. However it is suspected that the leaked silicone has been responsible for the development of autoimmune disease.
Both saline and silicone implants carry the same risks of infection, pain, and capsular contracture. The cost of breast implants, however, will vary depending on the type. Similarly the implants may need to be replaced with age.
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