Silicone is one of the most scientifically advanced materials available today, and one of the most widely used. Every silicone gel filled breast implant in the Collection is filled with approved, medical grade, highly purified, cohesive silicone, and backed by unique breast implant design and strict quality standards.
Nothing is more important to us than your long term health and safety. That's why breast implants undergo a unique battery of tests to ensure their innovative design meets standards, as well as requirements for quality.
To help track the long term safety of our breast implants, extensive clinical studies have been performed. These studies show that silicone filled breast implants have low long term rupture rates. In fact, the results found that, even after 11 years, 92 percent of all implants were still intact.
Silicone filled breast implants are designed with our patented patch design with 360 degree barrier layer coverage, which provides extra protection against gel diffusion or movement. To test their strength, empty shells are stretched to ensure patch joints remain intact. To date, Natrelle breast implants have not failed in testing, and no implant failures due to patch defects have been reported.
Breast implants filled with a cohesive gel are less likely to leak or ripple, providing a natural feel and shape. Allergan regularly conducts tests to measure the cohesivity of our implants. The silicone gel used to fill Natrelle breast implants consistently exceeds FDA guidelines for cohesivity.
A routine mammogram exerts approximately 30 pounds of force on a woman's breast. In addition to FDA required testing, Allergan's testing exerts far greater force, and found the silicone gel filled breast implants can absorb 25 times the force of a mammogram without failure.
A plastic surgeon should help patients research and make sure the right implant is choosen. Our Breast Implant Follow up Studies (BIFS), for example, help plastic surgeons add to the already extensive safety data gathered on our products. One of the largest clinical studies ever undertaken, over 40,000 women will have participated over the course of 10 years when complete.
Silicone gel filled breast implants are widely studied medical devices. In addition to many forms of research, thousands of peer reviewed and published reports on breast implants, including robust epidemiological studies, support safe use for patients.
Saline filled breast implants have also been heavily researched and are FDA approved. Post market surveillance data shows that out of nearly one and a half million saline filled breast implants, more than 97.5 percent remained intact after 10 years. In addition, regularly test should be performed to make sure the durability of saline filled implants according to standards set forth by the FDA and will be of benefit to the patients.
Author Resource:-
Dave Stringham, the President of LookingYourBest.com writes about breast implants, and cosmetic surgery procedures such as breast augmentation, abdominoplasty, liposuction, rhinoplasty, brachioplasty, and rhytidectomy.
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