What is the difference between silicone and saline filled breast implants?
The difference between the two types of implants is obvious. Silicone breast prostheses are filled with a silicone, while saline breast implants are filled with saline. The actual breast implant sack, called a breast implant shell, is made of a rubbery silicone elastomer, regardless of whether the implants are silicone, or saline. Apart from certain advantages and disadvantages with respect to the technical outcome of breast augmentation surgery, the basic difference is that silicone implants come filled, while saline implants are filled at the time of surgery. One advantage to saline breast implants that stems from this, is the ability to fill the two breasts with slightly different volumes to correct any small changes in size between the two breasts present before surgery. The answer to the question as to which type of implant to use in breast augmentation surgery has supporters on both the saline breast implant, and the silicone breast implant side.
