Patient education
Breast Implants: Guides
Twelve guides written for someone who is considering carrying a device, or already carries one. They follow the device rather than the operation: candidacy checks, the fill material and surface decisions, rupture and capsular contracture, the visits a lifetime of surveillance costs, and the plan for the end of the device's life.
All guides
12 guides
- Implant Candidacy: The Body Checks That Come FirstCandidacy
- What the Implant Assessment Has to EstablishPreparation
- Gel or Saline: What the Fill Material ChangesDeciding
- How Many Operations Is One Implant? Planning the DecadesCost and time
- Who Should Not Have an ImplantCandidacy
- Implant Surface and the Lymphoma QuestionRisks
- A Hard Breast Months Later: Capsular Contracture in Plain TermsRisks
- Rupture: How You Would Know, and What FollowsRisks
- What an Implant Cannot ChangeDeciding
- The First Six Weeks With Implants, Week by WeekRecovery
- What Implants Ask of You in Visits, Weeks and Follow-UpCost and time
- The Exit Plan: Deciding Now What You Would Do LaterAlternatives
Ask what the device asks of you
Arrange an assessment. We will measure what decides the plan, explain what surveillance and replacement mean over the years the implant is in place, and say plainly if a device is not the right answer for you.