CHANGE OF BREAST PROSTHESES
30/01/2018
In France, statistics show that 400,000 women wear breast implants, many of whom have opted to have them changed after a few years.
Many patients in your situation will have to change their breast implants during their lifetime, whether made of salt water or silicone. Indeed, your breast implants may no longer be suitable for your figure, which may have changed over the years. They may have aged and become weak, or even have ruptured or covered with a hardened capsule. All these reasons can lead to a replacement of breast implants.
CHANGE OF BREAST PROSTHESES, WHAT IS IT?
A procedure, which adopts the same surgical techniques for breast augmentation for the fitting of new prostheses whether they are smaller or more voluminous compared to the first ones to treat symptomatic or asymptomatic complications such as wear sometimes associated with leakage of silicone gel.
WHEN SHOULD I CHANGE YOUR BREAST PROSTHESES?
In addition to the prescription for the natural rupture of breast prostheses whose lifespan varies from 7 to 10 years, several factors lead to changing implants subjected to wear over time, trauma, shell, prosthetic malposition or even the will to '' increase breast volume. Knowing that regular monitoring of the implants is essential every 2 years.
Sometimes, a patient who wears physiological saline prostheses having undulating effects and unsightly folds on the neckline may choose the placement of cohesive silicone gel implants for their reliability in resistance and safety with an average lifespan of 12 to 15 years old.
CHANGE OF BREAST PROSTHESES, HOW DOES IT WORK?
Under general anesthesia and during an intervention of 1 to 3 hours, the cosmetic surgeon will adopt the same operating techniques usable during the breast augmentation operation using prostheses implanted behind the mammary gland or the pectoralis major muscle. .
In practice, the incisions make it possible to implant the implants by enlarging or decreasing its compartment depending on the size of the new prostheses. This intervention requires hospitalization for 24 to 48 hours.
CHANGE OF BREAST IMPLANTS, RESULT
After 3 months, the result of this procedure would be final.
CHANGING BREAST IMPLANTS, OPERATING SUITES
The patient will experience pain during the first days when the prostheses are large and placed behind the muscles.
WHAT COMPLICATIONS OF CHANGING BREAST PROSTHESES?
Systemic complications appear after a few years, namely, diseases of the immune system and connective tissues associated with silicone prostheses.
