What is BETTER, silicone or saline breast implants?
Both saline and silicone breast implants have their advantages and disadvantages. Most women with good breast skin quality and adequate breast tissue are good candidates for saline breast implants. Saline implants are less expensive than silicone breast implants, but some patients may have rippling or wrinkling of the implant that is palable through the skin. Generally, silicone implants are for women with thin soft tissue coverage, poor skin quality, or for those where price is less of a factor. Silicone implants have a much more natural feel to them and have less rippling or wrinkling. The main disadvantages of silicone implants are the added cost and the fact the the long term safety of the current generation of implants is being studied. It is also more diffucult to tell if a silicone implant has ruptured, and studies, such as an MRI, may be need to check.
