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Is the Ideal Breast Implant Really Ideal?
i saw a tweet that said the doctors TV show would talk about Ideal Implant, the newest hybrid breast implant on the market. i looked at the Ideal Implant web site and saw they are doing a study with 500 women augmented with the implants. Do any doctors have knowledge about the study and whether women are seeing really good results? Is the implant truly ideal or are their downsides?
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FDA approved clinical trial for the Ideal Implant
I am a clinical investigator for the FDA approved Ideal Implant Study. Currently there are 36 investigators located in Florida, Georgia, Texas and California.
The idea behind this implant is create a saline filled implant that has some of the characteristics of a gel filled implant. This implant is very different from the old double lumen implants. There are actually two different and separate saline filled chambers. There is a posterior chamber that is similar to a standard saline...
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Call me a skeptic on Ideal Implant
Generally speaking, the more complex the design of an implant the more likely they are to fail/rupture. This has been demonstrated repeatedly over 30 years of dual-chambered or multi-lumen implants. At the price these implants are apparently going to come to market at (more then silicone implants), I have no idea why you'd select this over the latest gummy-bear style devices which have a proven clinical record with lower complication rates observed in FDA clinical trials of the latest...
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Birmingham Plastic Surgeon
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NEW IDEAL IMPLANT PROMISING THUS FAR
Ideal Breast Implant Trials Promising
With the Ideal Implant, women will no longer have to choose between peace of mind and a great result when it comes to breast augmentation. Dr. Larry Nichter explains.
Saline and Silicone, Safety and Performance
Dr. Larry Nichter
Women have so far had essentially just two breast implant fill choices: saline or silicone.
Silicone implants have distinct advantages over saline implants in terms of performance: they wrinkle less and...
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The ideal breast implant
I "felt" the "ideal breast implant" for the first time at the ASAPS meeting in Boston 2011. I was quite impressed by the overall softness of the implant and resistance to rippling. I am excited to see how this new option behaves under the breast, assuming it gets FDA approval.
The market for this implant will likely be patients who want a lot of the advantages of silicone implants with the safety of a saline implant.
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"Ideal" Implants
What a great name! This is a company that is making a variation of the saline implant but it is still experimental and no studies are available to review.
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Ideal implant is still under clinical investigation
The ideal implant is a proprietary name for a breast implant that is still under clinical investigation. The final results of the clinical investigation is still not published. Patients can sign up to be in the clinical trial but most plastic surgeons would prefer to implant a breast implant that has stood the test of time for safety since there may be longterm risks with any breast implant.
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Information about Ideal breast implant
Ideal Implant is not a description, but rather is the name of the company that produces a new hybrid saline breast implant that is undergoing an FDA trail. I am one of the few investigators across the country, and am also the surgeon who presented this implant on "The Doctors" television show. I have had great success with this implant.
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The new "ideal implant": advantages and disadvantages. Is it the "perfect" implant?
You most likely read a press release from the company or from another interested party that touts the advantages of the implant without a critical analysis of the product.
In my experience the "supposed advantages" also work out to be disadvantages. For example, for a brief time, we had implants that were combination saline and silicone; composed of an inner and outer balloon type structure. Some had silicone in the outer chamber while others had saline in the outer chamber. These...
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Ideal breast implant?
The "ideal breast implant" is a saline filled implant with different types of chambers than the "traditional" saline implant. I have never used this implant and have no knowledge of it. Once I see the results of the studies, I can make some assessments.
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What's in a name? Ideal Implant may or may not be
Simply put, different implants will be "ideal" for different women. For example, the "gummy bear" implants generated a lot of excitement when they were in early stage trials, but now the doctors who participated in the trials estimate that they will be the best choice for only 15-20% of augmentation patients. As Dr. Stratis pointed out, the "Ideal Implant" is in clinical trials now and it will be years before we know whether it really has advantages....
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