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15 Year Old Saline Implants Have Visible Ripples After Losing 38lb, Options?
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Rippling of breast implants after weight loss
There are several things one can do to minimize chance of breast implant rippling:
use a smooth implant
place implant under the muscle rather than over the muscle
use silicone gel filled implant
However, if your skin is very thin due to weight loss, there is a higher chance of rippling. Recently, plastic surgeons are using cadaver dermis and placing it between the skin and the implant, essentially adding thickness to the skin. However, the cost of this allograft...
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Another alternative that may be helpful is fat grafting...
I agree with the other plastic surgeons who have suggested relocating the implant to the sub muscular plane and also changing to cohesive gel implants. If you still have very little tissue covering the implants where the muscle is absent, another way to add coverage is to do fat grafting. The fat can be harvested from your abdomen or another area, processed, and injected into the required area with blunt cannulae. The advantage is that this is your own tissue (the processed materials are...
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Older breast implants rippling after weight loss
After a significant weight loss, you may see a change in your implants, especially if they are saline. The options include changing to a submuscular pocket or switching to a silicone gel. Your implants probably will need replacement anyway, given that they are 15 years old.
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Replacement Of 15 Year Old Rippling Implants
You are most likely to obtain a good result by removing your implants and replacing them with smooth silicone implants placed under the chest muscle. Rippling is more commonly seen with saline and textured implants in my experience. Rippling is also more common with implants placed above, rather than below, the muscle.
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Visible rippling after saline implants
You give two great reasons for having your breast implants revised, maybe three. First, if you have visible rippling, there are a number of options to make this look better. The options include changing from saline to silicone implants, switching to below-the-muscle location if currently over-the-muscle, adding a material like Alloderm or Strattice to add both support and an additional layer between the implant and skin. Second, if your saline implants are 15 years old, now is a good...
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Saline Implants + Weight Loss = Ripples
We have all seen rippling of varying degrees from saline implants. Tissue coverage whether it be breast tissue, body fat or muscle are all important to reduce the amount of rippling and palpability with all implants especially saline implants. If all else looks good (no sagging, no capsular contracture, no malposition...) then the simplest solution is to simply switch to silicone. The higher profile smooth silicone implants especially the Allergan style 45 ripple the least. ...
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Saline implants and rippling
Congratulations on your weight loss! However, sometimes as what happened to you, the thinning of tissue accentuated the underlying implant. Sometimes changing the pocket location can help, or placing strattice.
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15 Year Old Saline Implants Have Visible Ripples After Losing 38lb, Options?Answer:
There are several possibilities depending on a few things which we don’t know. What is your ht. & wt. now? Where and when do you see the ripples? Are you above or below muscle? How big are your implants & what are they filled to? So if you only see mild ripples on the side and only bending over, then you may not need anything. If 5’7”, 105 lb. & above the muscle, maybe silicone, under the muscle & poss Strattice or 410 gel. Normal build & some...
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Old saline implants with rippling
Even without a significant weight loss such as yours, saline implants can show rippling through the breast skin. Depending on your anatomy, your doctor may offer several alternatives. In general, changing from saline to silicone will improve or eliminate visible rippling. Other treatments to improve rippling can also include placing the implants under the muscle and/or using alloderm to line the pocket. If the breasts have become saggy as well from the weight loss you may...
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Implants ripple after weight loss
Good tissue coverage can be very important to the look and feel of breast implants. Weight loss and thinning of the breast over time can cause ripples to appear. Your saline implants are nearing the end of their life and you can consider replacement which might reduce the ripple, and breast lift which can improve the breast shape and coverage over the implant.
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Breast implants rippling after weight loss
Breast implants are usually more palpable after weight loss, in particular if they are saline filled. The implants are always more palpable if the amount of breast tissue or fat between the skin and the implant surface decreases. Assuming that no more extensive lift surgery is wanted due to breast sag, some options to improve the problem are:
Gain weight. Not a very good option for most, since most of the time the weight loss is wanted.
Transfer fat tissue to...
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Breast implant rippling after weight loss
Excellent news on the weight loss but, yes, it can contribute to the rippling effect. My recommendation is to first reach your ideal weight and then maintain it for six months. At that time, it would be appropriate to evaluate the laxity of the skin and whether any retraction has occurred. If not, then the alternatives would include implant exchange, reaugment with mastopexy or a mastopexy alone.
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Rippling of Breast Implants after Weight Loss?
Thank you for the question.
Congratulations on your weight loss. Given the amount of weight loss you have experienced it is not surprising that you have more breast implant rippling present.
Correction of the rippling may involve further surgery including implant pocket exchange if possible ( sub glandular to submuscular), implant exchange if possible (saline to silicone), and/or the use of allograft to provide an additional layer of tissue between the implant and your skin.
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