When a saline implant ruptures due to trauma, wear and tear, or any other reason, you’ll know it. That’s because saline implants are like water balloons. When they pop, they deflate quickly and this will cause an obvious visible change. This is corrected by replacing the implant, often with a silicone implant.
Modern (fourth-generation or “gummy bear”) silicone implants, on the other hand, are highly cohesive and don’t ooze the same way as older implants. When they break, silicone doesn’t leak out. It more or less stays in place. Without breast MRI or other forms of imaging, you probably wouldn’t even know it was ruptured.
At Finesse Plastic Surgery we recommend replacing ruptured implants. We also recommend that patients with silicone implants have their breasts imaged at routine intervals to keep a close eye on the implants, which most commonly rupture without symptoms.
