Do Implants Really Drop?
Internet chat rooms and message boards are flooded with discussion of implants “dropping” a few weeks after surgery. In most cases, this is not what is happening. Realize that after surgery (especially subpectoral placement), your body will weep serous fluid into the implant pocket, causing marked swelling above and around the implant, resulting in a bulge above the implant. Some assume this bulge is the implant, but it is usually the serous fluid. As the swelling (serous fluid) resorbs, it will appear as though the implant has dropped, but it has not. It was most likely in the same position as it was all along.
