MYTHS ABOUT BREAST IMPLANTS

SECOND MYTH ABOUT BREAST IMPLANTS: THEY HAVE

TO BE REPLACED EVERY TEN YEARS

I don’t know how this got started, but every other patient I see has the impression that breast implants need to be replaced every ten years.  This is absolutely not true.  Here are the facts.

1.         Any breast implant can leak eventually.

2.         And a leaking implant must be replaced.

3.         But the newer breast implants have a very, very low rate of leaking, and silicone breast implants have a lower risk of leaking than saline implants.

4.         Your risk of a breast implant leaking at ten years is about 5% and the estimated risk at twenty years is 10%.  So, for most women, their implants will be fine for ten years, and way beyond.