Diminishing the size of a saline breast implant

Otto Joseph Placik, MD answers: Reduce saline breast implant volume without surgery?

Is it possible to reduce approximately 70 cc from saline breast implants without having surgery (for example, with a very small needle)? Would it continue to leak afterward? Thank you.


Otto Joseph Placik, MD
23 days ago
By Otto Joseph Placik, MD - Chicago Plastic Surgeon

For conventional saline filled silicone elastomer prosthesis implants, it is impossible to remove saline with a needle and keep the implant intact without surgery.

Furthermore, even if you could do it surgically, reducing all but the largest implants by 70 degrees would likely result in a higher rate of implant faillure and ruptre.

Web reference: http://www.bodysculptor.com/breast.html
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