So what happens when your boobs expire? How do you know? Have they ever deflated due to force? Why get boob jobs that have expiration dates?





I don't think that the implants that they use now need to be replaced every ten years anymore...




they dont expire, thats just when the warranty runs out. like when you get a tv, if if breaks due to manufacturing issues before the warranty is over they will replace it or refund you. same with the implants, if they leak or break from reasons out of your control they will replace them for you. after the warranty is up you will have to replace them if you choose to.





A friend of mine had one leak and it was saline filled. She felt sick to her stomach and had diarrhea and her boob of course lost its mass. They replaced her implant under her warranty. My mother had the original silicone implants from the 80s and she had chronic fatigue syndrome among other issues. She had hers removed years ago ( paid for by the manufacturer )and got a bit of money from the class action settlement. It wasnt enough to pay for what she went through.




I got my breasts done a couple of years ago. My surgeon told me saline implants are safe, it's only salt water, they don't need to be replaced unless they deflate. When they do, it is not dangerous and it is absorbed into the body without any side effects. However, he told me silicone implants need to be replaced every 10-15 years because not enough studies have been done about them yet... This was 4 years ago, things might have changed.
I also know girls who got their surgery done around the same time as I did and whose surgeons said the new silicone can last a lifetime until they rupture, but it is harder to detect than with saline. I guess what my doctor was worried about is the unknown harmful effects of ruptured silicone implants, even though they don't leak anymore like the ones made decades ago.



I have silicone cohesive gel implants, and when I had mine done my surgeon said they are supposed to last a lifetime. I got capsular contracture (scar tissue around the implant) in one of them and had to have it replaced. At that time I did ask the surgeon when/if I should think about replacing the other side and he said if there were no issues with it, it's not necessary.





^^^ From a health standpoint, concensus opinion is that saline implants are very safe. However, they do use an implant bag that is made of silicone rubber. Thus an extremely tiny number of girls whose immune systems are hypersensitive may experience reactions to the silicone rubber implant bag material ... regardless of whether that bag is filled with saline fluid or silicone !
There has been controversy about the safety of silicone in long term contact with body tissues. Latest opinion seems to be that as long as liquid silicone isn't used ( which can flow into body tissues in the event of an implant bag rupture ), overall health risks of saline implants and ( gel filled ) silicone implants is about the same.
In terms of non-health issue related implant bag failure risk, silicone is a lubricant while saline = salt water is an abrasive. As such, saline implant bags can be eroded from the inside out over time due to folding and flexing. While a 'housewife' might face saline filled implant bag erosion after 30+ years, girls who use their upper body muscles a lot via workouts, dancing etc. might face saline filled implant bag erosion after ~10 years. Thus for dancers and/or workout fanatics, silicone gel implants may provide additional years of 'service'. Also, 'overfilling' of saline implants arguably slows down the erosion rate of the implant bags by driving out 'folds' in the bag.
I have had a saline implant bag fail ... no big deal, other than peeing my brains out as my body absorbed the saline fluid, and being 'lopsided' for a couple of weeks waiting for the replacement surgery.
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^^^ personal preference seems to prevail ! From my own experience, the guy prefers whichever implants are bigger !!!
Seriously, though, silicone gel implants minimize 'rippling' ... which is a peculiar appearance that can happen when the folds of the implant bag ... under thin skin cover ... become 'visible'. This sometimes happens with non-overfilled saline implants.
Yes, I think so. ^ Saline will deflate but silicone will not.





^^^ agreed that if you're sure that you won't develop a case of 'boob greed' and return for a re-do with even larger implants, the extra cost of silicone gel implants is likely to lead to a more natural looking, more natural feeling, longer lasting result from a single BA.
The 'kicker' of course is that, in our business, 'boob greed' seems to be contagious !
I think the G extra for silicone is always worth it. They just feel better.





^^^ true enough ... at least true in the absence of already knowing from the 'git go' that you're going to be returning for a re-do with even larger implants within the next 3-6 months to be able to achieve the final size you want. In that particular situation, silicone implants not only represent extra cost, but also a significantly larger incision since, unlike saline implants, the silicone implants will be filled to full capacity prior to 'installation'.



I have boob greed and would do silicone over saline this time but like Melonie said, a larger incision size scares me. I want to go from the 430ccs that I have now to somewhere between 700 and 850ccs silicone but I think I'll stick to saline because I'm afraid with a prefilled implant that large that I am going to have a fairly large incision which I really don't want.
I see those folds or ripples on the sides of implanted boobies a lot. I've been told it's just what naturally happens over time as the implants settle?? That's the biggest thing that's kept me from getting implants...those ripples are so not attractive





^^^ ripples are attributable to a couple of different factors. First is the 'thickness' of skin / tissue covering the implants. As I said earlier, this can be a problem for girls with natural A and B cups attempting to go up lots of cup sizes ... because the little bit of breast tissue they had to start with winds up being stretched over a much larger implant surface.
Second is the amount of wrinkles that will be present in the implant bag. Generally speaking, silicone implants will have a few wrinkles - but those wrinkles appear to be 'smoother' due to the higher viscosity of the silicone gel. Saline implants can have lots of wrinkles, but also zero wrinkles, depending on how much saline is put in the implant bag versus it's cc rating. The trade-off with saline implants, of course, is that the more they are overfilled to reduce the rippling effect, the more 'bolt-on' they look and feel.





Saline can and does get fungus and bacteria in it. I"ve been in the business ans seen it all. Your body constantly tries to rid itself of a foreign object. Macrofaghes ( scavangers of the body) they constantly feed of the implant trying to rid the body hence why silicone is found in other parts of the body of women with saline. So that's why they say change them every 8-10 years. Also men with silicone devices in the body have had the same un pleasant symptoms as well. Do your research.





Hahaha. Mine don't ripple but my ex did not like how they looked on top. Mine are natural as hell looking and well they looked kind of pointy? Haha. He was weird.
In some of the older versions of implants (around the 80's - 90's) they actually harden up, but it only happens to certain ones (not sure if saline or what). I don't think you have to replace them, but they are certainly uncomfortable to hug.







I have silicone and the doctor used the keller funnel method. The incision isn't extremely tiny, but I prefer to have silicone anyway. I started with a 32B and I have no rippling. The "underboob" part is where most rippling would happen, and even though I have thick skin, there wasn't much natural breast tissue there to begin with, so I'm pleased with the results.
For lack of a better word, they don't "flop" around as much as very large breasts do, but they jiggle. It kind of reminds me of what my natural breasts did anyway. So basically it's like having large breasts that move "naturally" the same way smaller breasts do that are more firm, but they don't move like some larger breasts do.





^^^ that's due to the difference in viscosity between silicone gel and silicone liquid. Liquid silicone implants act so similar to natural breast tissue that it's ridiculous. Unfortunately, the lower viscosity also means that, if the implant bag leaks, the liquid silicone can start moving around within your body.
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