What are the differences between saline and silicone breast implants?
The advantages of the saline are that you can put it into a much smaller incision. The saline implants come empty, so you put them in, then fill them up. The silicone implants come pre-filled, so you have to make a larger incision to put them in. That’s a deciding factor for a lot of people. The other thing is that silicone implants cost more. In terms of the feel – silicone implants feel more like the natural breast tissue. The recovery time is about the same for the both of them. Where do you think the plastic surgery profession is headed? There are a couple of things that are ongoing trends. We now have the first set of devices that will shrink skin. I think that will continue to improve, and as that improves it will make it so that we are doing fewer and fewer surgeries. The ability to take away fat deposits without having to do open procedures is another example of those kinds of things. I think there has been an ongoing trend of reusing fat – taking fat from one part of the body
