{"id":3083,"date":"2019-04-25T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lookingnatural.com\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2022-10-14T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T14:29:49","slug":"saline-vs-silicone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lookingnatural.com\/breast-implants\/saline-vs-silicone\/","title":{"rendered":"Saline vs Silicone Breast Implants"},"content":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s an opinion asserted by breast implant manufacturers and by many plastic surgeons that silicone gel breast implants are better than saline breast implants.<\/p>\n
In my opinion, \u201cIt ain\u2019t necessarily so.\u201d<\/p>\n
I’ve performed more than 7,000 breast augmentation surgeries, many of them with saline implants. My patients who chose saline have reported a high degree of satisfaction; it’s been rare for a woman to request that I change her saline implants to silicone.<\/p>\n
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Silicone gel implants may be stealing the spotlight, but saline breast implants still have much to offer. Here are seven reasons why:<\/p>\n
When you hold a saline implant in one hand and a silicone gel implant in the other, the silicone gel implant feels softer, but that\u2019s not where breast implants will be! When I place breast implants behind the muscle, saline and silicone implants feel the same. In\u00a0slender women who have very thin skin, less breast tissue, and little or no muscle coverage around the side and underneath their breasts, there’s a higher chance that either implant can be felt in these locations.<\/p>\n
The evidence isn’t all anecdotal. Using ultrasound scans and patient outcome surveys, Dr. Eric Swanson compared saline and silicone gel implants placed behind the pectoral (chest) muscle and discovered that the rippling\u00a0seen<\/em>\u00a0in both implants is similar<\/strong>. He also reported that there was no statistically significant difference for each group of women in\u00a0feeling<\/em>\u00a0the rippling<\/strong>.\u00a0His findings are published in\u00a0Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery<\/em>\u00a0(June 4, 2020).<\/p>\n Silicone gel implants are recommended by the FDA and the manufacturers for women 22 and older. Saline implants are available to women ages 18 and up. Although the majority of my patients fall in the latter range, young women who have not developed often tell me that they feel self-conscious when they are on the beach and that they can\u2019t find clothing or swimsuits that fit. They don\u2019t want to wait several years for surgery.<\/p>\nAvailability
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