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How Do You Know when There is a Rupture with Silicone Implants?

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At my consultation, I felt both saline and silicone and as soon as I touched the silicone, I was sold on getting HP silicone implants. From watching videos (saline vs. silicone), silicone implants seem pretty indestructible. But my only reservation of silicone is not being able to detect a leak as easy as saline ones. I tried to do a search for "silicone ruptures" and there is a lot of information on saline ruptures but not silicone. How does one really know when it leaks/ruptures?

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