Are Breast Implants Hypoallergenic?

asked 3 years ago by jolynn in La
Latest answer by Peter A. Aldea, MD
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11 answers to Are Breast Implants Hypoallergenic?

Silicone is safe bio-material and is hypoallergenic!

This is a great question. Silicone is one of the most commonly studied materials in medical research. To date, there has been no conclusive evidence which has found human antibodies to silicone in women following breast augmentation. In 1997, the Department of Health and Human Services appointed the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science (IOM) to look at potential complications during or after breast augmentation surgery. After reviewing years of evidence and research... more

Stephen A. Goldstein, MD
Englewood Plastic Surgeon

Breast implants causing allergies

No medical device in the history of Medicine has been as extensively studied as Breast Implants. Preposterously, breast implant were more extensively scrutinized than heart valves, pace makers, defibrillators, artificial joints etc. After thousands of studies, these studies have demonstrated that implants do NOT cause immune disease, cancer or allergic reactions.I have never met a patient with an allergic reaction to breast implants in the many patients I placed implants in. Dr. P. Aldea... more

Peter A. Aldea, MD
Memphis Plastic Surgeon

Breast implants and allergies

Breast implants are non-reactive. There should be no allregic reaction to them as shown in multiples studies over the past 15 years to get approval by the FDA.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Yes, it's hypoallergenic

Hello, Breast implants are not biological so they can't cause allergic reactions. Berst Regards, John Di Saia MD

John P. Di Saia, MD
Orange Plastic Surgeon

Implants are hypoallergenic

Breast implants, whether silicone or saline, do not cause an allergic reaction. We routinely place various types of implants, including chin and cheek implants, and they do not cause allergic reactions. Other reactions such as infection, scarring, capsular contracture are all possible, but not considered allergic in nature.

Sirish Maddali, MD
Portland Plastic Surgeon

There are no allergic reactions to breast implants.

Breast implants (both silicone and saline) are very safe and they do not cause allergic reactions. About 5% of patients get capsular contracture, which is a tightening of the tissues around the implant, and this can cause the breasts to feel too firm. But this is not an allergic reaction and does not cause you any harm.

George J. Beraka, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

There should be virtually no allergic potential to implants

As you can see from the other answers, there should be essentially no potential for an allergic reaction to an implant. In over 20 years of practice, I can certainly confirm that I have never met a patient who had any such reaction.

Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Hypoallergenic to Hypomastia

Silicone is a ubiquitous synthetic material with which we come into contact numerous times on a daily basis in normal life. It is contained in packaging materials, hair products, used to coat hypodermic needles, etc. As a substitute for natural breast volume, silicone gel breast implants have the best characteristics of viscosity and pliability of any biocompatible substance. There is extremely minimal chance of a patient experiencing an allergic reation to either an intact silicone... more

Athleo Louis Cambre, MD
Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon

Complicated question but the simple answer is yes

There is probably no medical device that has been studied more intensively in terms of the potential to stimulate an immune response than breast implants. (Allergy is an immune system response.) Since both saline and silicone gel implants have a silicone shell, the question is a very important one. A few years ago, there were a couple of reports in the medical literature of allergy-type reactions to implants, but it relates more to impurities and not the silicone itself, and in any case... more

Richard Baxter, MD
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

The is almost no chance of an allergic reaction to Silicone saline or silicone gel filled implants

In thirty years of surgically implanting hundreds of both silicone implants filled with either saline or silicone gel every year, I have only seen one individual who might have truly been allergic to silicone implants. It was a case when I was on reserve duty at Walter Reed USA Medical Center who some one else had operated on six months earlier and was felt to have a infection manifested by redness and swelling. Her implants were removed and she immediately settled down while no bacteria... more