Breast Implant Revision

00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:09.600 Breast implant revision surgery is a common operation that we do for women 00:00:09.630 --> 00:00:14.460 who've had breast augmentation or breast surgery in the past with breast implants. 00:00:14.490 --> 00:00:19.940 It typically involves removing the breast implants and putting new ones in. 00:00:19.970 --> 00:00:24.600 Very often, it involves removing the old implants and not putting new implants in. 00:00:24.630 --> 00:00:26.940 The key thing to remember is that breast 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.000 implants were never designed to last you for the rest of your. 00:00:30.030 --> 00:00:35.160 Most women who have had breast implants in the past will need to have them removed 00:00:35.180 --> 00:00:38.980 and replaced one or two times over the course of their life. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:41.240 Revision breast surgery is more 00:00:41.270 --> 00:00:45.600 complicated than the initial operation, and it's really important to go to someone 00:00:45.630 --> 00:00:49.420 who specializes in revision breast surgery like we do. 00:00:49.450 --> 00:00:54.140 When we are doing breast revision surgery, there's multiple options available. 00:00:54.170 --> 00:00:56.860 Sometimes it means putting new implants in. 00:00:56.890 --> 00:00:59.260 Very often, especially nowadays, it means 00:00:59.290 --> 00:01:03.140 taking out the old breast implants and then doing a breast lift, 00:01:03.170 --> 00:01:08.720 a breast reduction, or fat rafting to improve the shape, to tighten and lift the 00:01:08.750 --> 00:01:11.740 breasts without putting breast implants back in. 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:13.770 Many women who've had breast implants for 00:01:13.800 --> 00:01:19.520 a long time don't want them to be replaced because that might mean more surgery down 00:01:19.550 --> 00:01:23.640 the line. When we are doing revision breast surgery, we can offer numerous 00:01:23.670 --> 00:01:29.540 options to revise the breasts and improve the look without replacing the implants. 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:32.920 Women who are candidates for revision breast surgery are going to have 00:01:32.950 --> 00:01:36.920 complaints of breast pain from the implants, a change in the shape of the 00:01:36.950 --> 00:01:40.780 breasts because the implants have scar tissue that have built up around them. 00:01:40.810 --> 00:01:45.020 We call that capsule contracture, and it typically happens over time. 00:01:45.050 --> 00:01:49.320 The older your breast implants, the more commonplace it is to have scar tissue 00:01:49.350 --> 00:01:53.340 build up around the implants to change the shape or the feel of the breast. 00:01:53.370 --> 00:01:55.600 The breast can be hard, and it can be 00:01:55.630 --> 00:01:58.620 painful, and also the breast implant can be leaking. 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:00.800 For all of these reasons, people have to have revision breast surgery to remove and 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:01.640 replace the implants or fix the breasts without replacing the implants.