What Is The Outer Surface Of A Breast Implant?

Added on 16th August 2019

There are two different surfaces that have been used for breast implants, we have the traditional silicon with the silicon shell which will then be filled with a material. We also have the polyurethane shell which is a different form of shell. The majority of implants have got silicon shells and the reason the polyurethane was developed was to try and reduce the capsular contracture rates.

Capsular contracture is caused by an excessive fibrotic reaction to a foreign body (the implant) it averagely affects in one in six women

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