Who? Patients electing to have their breast implants removed but not replaced. There may be many reasons for such a decision including recurrent capsular contracture, recurrent rupture or a change in patient preference. What is involved? Removing the breast implants and their respective scar capsules, then lifting and reshaping the residual breast tissue into an…
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Who? Patients developing capsular contracture, breast implant rupture or patient preference. Capsular contracture (CC) is scar contraction around the patient’s breast implants deforming their shape and size. A small percentage of patients will develop pain as a result of the CC. Implant rupture is often “silent” and detected incidentally when performing ultrasound, CT or MRI…
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