A mother of 1 in her early 50s with a ruptured left silicone gel implant. She originally had breast augmentation along with a lift ( augmentation-mastopexy) with us in 2008 with smooth round silicone gel implants. She returned to see after mammograms some contour irregularity of the implant on her left. She is happy with the size of her breasts. I recommended an MRI to evaluate the integrity of her breast implants. The FDA recommends an ultrasound or MRI starting 6 years after surgery and then repeating every 1-2 years to check for implant rupture. She was now 15 years after her surgery and had not had any implant evaluation
The MRI was obtained and showed a left intra-capsular rupture ( The implant shell had failed but the silicone was still inside the capsule of scar tissue that forms around a breast implant)
She was currently 5’3” and 149 lbs and had Natrelle smooth round moderate profile 397 cc implants on each side. She had bilateral implant replacement in the operating room with the same size implants, placed through the inframammary portion of her mastopexy incision. She is shown before and again, 6 weeks after.
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