Gummy Bear Breast Implants Cost?

You will find many different answers depending on who your ask. Cost will vary depending on many factors.... first of all it differs depending on if a board certified plastic surgeon is performing the surgery or not. Also, if the surgery is performed in a hospital based operating room vs. an office setting, if a board certified anesthesiologist is involved vs. a nurse (or sometimes performing procedures under local anesthesia), etc. Please be careful when doing your... more

The FDA trials for the Allergan Style 410 devices are still on-going. One of the trials enrolls patients who have never had breast implants in the past. The other trial enrolls patients who have currently have implant or expander in place. There is a tremendous amount of confusion out there regarding what is a "cohesive" breast implant. Technically speaking all silicone breast implants are cohesive, meaning the silicone "stays together"r to some degree. The higher the... more

Your best bet is always to call around to your local plastic surgeons.  If their prices are in line with your finances, I'd recommend calling areas of the country where prices tend to be cheaper. Bottom line remains that these implants are not approved for use in the US outside of research centers.

The reason you can not find out the price of the cohesive gel or gummy implants in the US is because they are not yet available on the market. Right now they are only available under a research protocol.

There is, and has been some confusion the newer styled cohesive gel breast implants. Memory gel is the product from Mentor and Natrelle is the product from Allergan. In my experience most women refer to this type of implant as the gummy bear type gel implant. There is a new implant, yet to be release in the US, this is the Style 410 by allergan. This is a form stable gel and is firmer than the existing cohesive gel. I believe from your question you are interested in this type of gel... more

It sounds like you have decided upon the form-stable implants without a consultation. There are some advantages for some women in specific cases, but the vast majority will still get a better result with the round cohesive implants available now. The experts who used the "gummy bear" implants in the clinical trials estimate that only about 15-20% of women will be good candidates for them. So you need to be seen in consultation in order to determine whether they are actually... more

You are having trouble because neither the Allergan 410 or the Mentor CPG has been approved by the FDA yet. For a while a number of women got them as part of a large national clinical trial but, now that that trial is over we need to wait for the FDA to act.