Natrelle saline-filled implants with texture

There are currently two American breast implant manufacturers: Mentor and Allergan. Allergan has branded all of their breast implants with the name Natrelle.

Those implants include round saline-filled implants with both a smooth and textured shell (the texturing on Allergan's implants is called Biocell and the texturing on Mentor's implants is called Siltex.) They also make an anatomic or teardrop implant, and they only come with texturing (in order to help fix the anatomic implant in place, keeping it from rotating and thereby creating a disfigurement.)

Both textured and smooth are excellent. The purported advantage of texturing is to reduce capsular contracture. There is some suggestion that there is such an advantage with silicone filled implants, but it is far from proven, and there is no consensus about whether it really helps with silicone implants. With saline implants, most people believe that there is not an advantage in reducing contracture, but there are surgeon who believe that they notice a reduction wtih texturing. But all anatomic shaped implants are textured for the reason mentioned, whether saline or silicone filled.

The disadvantage of texturing is that some people believe that one can feel the shell a little more easily, and that folds or irregularities in the shell can be more obvious.

It is interesting that overseas, most implants used are textured, but in the United States, smooth are more often used.

In any case, both are excellent. Obviously, I don't know what transpired between you and your surgeon, but rest assured that textured Natrelle implants are excellent. Unless you had a specific problem that could be attributable to texturing, then this is probably not something worth worrying about.