Gel Fracture of Highly Cohesive Gel Implants on Insertion: Diagnostic Difficulties

Sientra® High-Strength Cohesive Gel Implants

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Form-Stable Cohesive Gel Implants: Advantages and Technical Essentials

The advent of form-stable cohesive gel implants represents a significant device-related advance in the history of breast implants. Perhaps even more significant, however, are advances in the non–device-related process of breast augmentation itself, which have redefined the outcome and patient experience for this procedure.1 These refinements in breast augmentation technique have been particular...

Silicone Gel Breast Implants

Comparative double blind clinical study on round versus shaped cohesive gel implants.

BACKGROUND Highly cohesive round or shaped implants are used today by most plastic surgeons performing breast augmentation outside North America. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to (1) compare aesthetic outcomes of round versus shaped implants in breast augmentation by defining the preferences of the general female population and plastic surgeons towards two groups of augmented breasts (i...

Silicone Gel Bleed on Breast Implants

Silicone is a polymer widely used for medical purposes, including breast implants. The aim of this work is to verify the occurrence of silicone gel diffusion through the lining membrane (bleed) of gel breast implants with smooth, textured, and polyurethane foam coated surfaces, sterilized by dry heat and ethylene oxide. The results enable us to conclude that there is significant difference for ...