Removal and replacement of breast implants can be common. One of the more common reasons that a person would want to change the breast implant is to change from a saline implant to a silicone implant. While both implants can produce excellent results, over time the saline implant may lose volume and the inherent rippling to all implants may become…
I have found an increasing number of women who present to my office in consultation who had saline breast implants placed ten years ago and who are now requesting removal and replacement of their mammary implants for highly cohesive silicone gel mammary prosthesis. Often these women underwent reduction mammoplasty with an implant to maintain upper pole fullness, but now want…