Silicone Breast Implant Photo
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The great news is, since the FDA re-approved silicone gel breast implants in 2006, women now have plenty of choices. If saline implants just aren’t for you—if you don’t care for the saline filling, don’t want to risk the ripples or don’t have enough breast tissue to cover the implants—you should now be able to find a silicone implant or gummy bear implant that will give you the curves of your dreams.
New breast implants are nicknamed gummy bear beast implants because they have the feel and consistency of a gummy bear when you cut into one. The advantages of this type of breast implant would be it doesn’t leak like traditional silicone and saline implants if ruptured. These cohesive gel breast implants seem to hold their shape for a much longer time than the other implants do. Gummy bear implants are composed of “exactly the same ingredients as standard silicone gel. They just put more ‘cross-linker’ into it, so the molecules bond to each other more and it creates a more form-stable shape. The gel is so thick that it won’t run or slosh around inside the implant. The durability of cohesive gel breast implants looks promising. The folds and rippling associated with saline and silicone implants is less likely to occur with this stable-form implant. The folds become weak spots on the implant shell, making them more susceptible to rupture. And, even if these cohesive gel implants do rupture, the silicone will not leak out. More research is needed to see if silicone being in contact with the body will cause harm to the patient in any way. All breast implants including saline have a silicone shell.
If you’re just starting your research on silicone gel filled breast implants, take a closer look at gummy bear implants – the very newest generation of silicone implants available from Dr. William Bruno, Dr. Ashkan Ghavami, and Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery. You’ve discovered that “gummy bear” is more than a cute nickname; it’s a clue about the nature of the filling. It’s at once soft and firm, pliant and cohesive, strong and beautiful. And just like those cute little red, green and yellow bears, you can push, pull and even cut the material and it won’t lose its shape.
If you are one of the many women looking for Los Angeles breast augmentation, you’ll soon discover that many patients choose to come to Beverly Hills Physicians for their procedures due to the expertise of surgeons and staff.
Women learn that surgeons at Beverly Hills Physicians have invested an incredible amount of time and energy into breast enhancement surgery and we are one of the busiest and best experts due to incredible number of procedures we have performed. Prospective patients find out that the surgeons’ experience with saline, silicone and gummy bear implants has earned them the trust of manufacturers such as Allergen.
Made with cohesive silicone gel, the implants have a consistency that was previously unavailable in any breast implant. Most silicone breast implants have a silicone gel that feels like honey, while the 410 is more like jello. For this reason, people have nick-named them “gummy bear implants.”
The current silicone gel implants, which have a round shape, are filled with silicone that has a consistency like honey. The gel “flows” in the implant, so when the implant is in the vertical position, the gel flows to the bottom and the top/upper pole of the implant collapses. This leads to loss of upper pole fullness and rippling which may be visible and/or palpable.
The style 410 implant is made with silicone that has 3% more cross-linking and it is thus more viscous. The silicone does not flow, it is form stable and has an anatomic (tear-drop) shape. This anatomically shaped implant maintains its shape in all positions. The shell does not fold. Thus the upper pole remains full even in the upright position and there is minimal rippling.