The 2 Main Types Of The Breast Implants

By Scott White


The breast implant is one type of prosthesis process which is being used in order to make some changes on the shape, contour, and size of the breasts. For the reconstructive plastic surgeries, the breast implants are placed in order to do the restoration of breasts, making it look more natural. These are often applied to patients who have undergone mastectomy or for chest walls that have congenital defects or deformities.

The devices to be utilized for this breast implant have three classifications that would include the saline solution, composite filler, and the silicone gel. In breast implants Michigan, two common type are only utilized for mammoplasty, breast reconstruction, and breast augmentation procedures. The two types are silicone implant where in this is using gels and saline solution where in saline solution is used.

In Michigan, the most commonly used type for prosthesis by most devices is the saline implant for the augmentation of breasts. This is because the silicone filled implants have been restricted by the FDA for some reasons. Its technical goal is making it a lesser invasive technique of surgery to emplace an empty device through the small surgical incision.

In a surgical praxis, if implants are emplaced already in pockets, each of the device is then filled by surgeons with the saline solutions. Since the incisions that are inserted will require small and short sizes, it is expected that the resulting sizes of incision scars must be smaller and shorter as well. These are smaller than the common surgical scars having long incisions to be able to insert the gel.

Thus, if this is to be compared to the silicone gel type, this is going to yield more acceptable results for increasing the size, making it smoother and has hemisphere contour, and also has realistic texture. However, it may also have some side effects such as causing some cosmetic problems. These problems may include rippling and wrinkling of envelope skins, and accelerated lower pole stretch.

Other problems on this are the technical problems that would include the implants presence, thus, making it visible to eyes and can be felt when touched. The cosmetic problems would most likely occur only when a woman has little tissues. For women who have previous experiences on post mastectomy, the use of silicone gels are suggested for the prosthetic devices in both breasts augmentation and reconstruction.

However, being one of the medical device technologies, the gels implant has five generations. Each generation is being defined by some common techniques for model manufacturing. The first one is made from rubber envelope sac. Its shape is similar to a teardrop and is filled with silicone gels. In order to reduce the emplacement rotation on chest wall, this is affixed into the pocket using the fastener patch.

In second generation, a products functional development and aesthetic improvement are both featured. In third generation and fourth generation, sequential advancements of the manufacturing technology are focused. These would include elastomer coated shells so that gel bleed will decrease and will also have thicker filler gel.

And the last one is made from highly cohesive and high strength gel which most of the time will be eliminating the filler leakage occurrences. Silicone filler migrations from a pocket is also eliminated. Most commonly, the implants are referred as gummy bear implant for breasts, that is, similar to the gummy candies.




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