Friday, July 13, 2012

Problems Associated with Breast Implants

Breast implants have been on women’s mind from long time. There are different ways to do it and breast implants are very popular but at the same time controversial also. Since it includes surgery, breast implants issues are not completely impossible to occur. Things can go wrong and before taking vital decision of going through such process, every woman has to be informed and to assess the prospective dangers of her action.

Some specialists suggest that there is a relation between breast implants and some serious and fatal diseases. Still the research should be done about this theory as nothing is definite yet. Rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune disease seem to be associated with breast implants and the medical community is still conducting study on this theory. But one thing is certain, breast implants complications include the truth that they intervene with screenings of mammography and they avoid x-rays from disclosing abnormalities in the tissues of breasts.


Breast implants are performed by using saline or silicone. Both kinds have risks and can bring complications over the course of time. When a person goes through a surgery, some complications may occur, no matter how good the professional is or how much precaution is taken while doing the procedure. Infections are very common in such surgeries. If there is any infection, the implant has to be taken off, the infection will be treated and then the woman can choose new implant. If infections are not treated properly, it can worsen and even put the woman’s life in danger.

Breast implant complications that are more likely to occur include rupture and contracture. They can occur to both saline and silicone implants. The one and only difference is that the break out in saline implants becomes obvious very soon. Capsular contraction can be solved only with another surgery and there is no assurance that once treated it will stay like that. It can put a person in too much pain and it can result in dangers sometimes as the breast tissue can integrate with capsule and need to be removed through a surgery. Break out or rupture can come at any time in the life of implant, sometimes it may occur after ten years from the first surgery. It can have multiple causes, but accidents are very common ones. It also has to be fixed surgically, by taking the implant out actually. In silicone implants a rupture can let the silicone to move in the breast tissue and get into other parts of the body. Women with breast implants rupture have to undergo a mastectomy most of the times.

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