Breast Implants Episodes

You service your car by the mile and your house by the season, but the silicone and saline devices from a cosmetic breast augmentation keep a schedule all their own. The classic answer is that you run them until they break — no surgeon, manufacturer, or FDA rule forces a replacement while the device is still performing. What sends someone back to the OR isn’t a date on the calendar but events: capsular contracture that firms up or distorts the shape, and the rupture or deflation of a saline o...