Gummy Bear Breast Implants vs Saline or Silicone?

At this point in time, I use smooth, round silicone implants in the submuscular position in all cosmetic breast patients. I feel that this scenario is safest for patients, and offers the best cosmetic outcome, in my experience.

For all intended purposes, there are two types of implants:  Silicone and Saline.  These two categories can be divided up further.Saline:  these implants are made of a silicone shell but the fill is physiologic salt water.  There are two types of saline implant currently available: Traditional vs Ideal Implant.  The Ideal implant is a saline implant like the traditional saline implants but has multiple lumens and baffles to help slow down the movement of the saline fluid that is inside the shell.  This helps improve the feel and rippling that is inherent with saline implants.Silicone:  there are now several different cohesiveness levels of silicone.  All silicone can be considered "gummy bear" as the silicone gel sticks together and are bonded strongly incase there is a shell break, the gel will remove as one.  However, with the newer cohesive gels, the bonding has been increased there for making the gel implants more firm to help decrease the rippling even further as well has maintain the "upper pole" of the breast.  Currently there are 3 levels of silicone gel cohesive implants:  Responsive, Soft Touch, Cohesive.Hope that helps.

Gummy bear breast implants refers to implants that are shaped and contain highly cohesive silicone gel. "Highly cohesive" means that the inner silicone is actually a solid, and is no longer a silicone liquid. There are now highly cohesive round silicone gel implants also. These implants maintain fullness in the upper pole of the breast. Choosing breast implants can be confusing and sometimes you may feel like you need to do all of the research to choose the perfect implant for you. I would focus your research on finding a safe and caring board-certified plastic surgeon. A good surgeon will spend a lot of time with you during the consultation. They should explain the surgery, the differences between the different types of implants, how to select the implant size and help you plan for the recovery. They should be telling you all of the information that you need to know to proceed with confidence. Good luck with the process!