Removing ‘Rocks on the Chest’ – Breast Implant Exchange
This week I replaced a 70-year old woman’s silicone-gel breast implants. She had her first breast implants inserted as a 30-year old by a high-quality surgeon and the same surgeon replaced her implants 20 years later. She came to see me recently because, over time, her breasts had become hard, heavy and distorted in shape. In other words, she had developed capsular contracture around her implants. Whenever something foreign is put inside our body, our body tries to wall it of
