Why does breast implant rippling happen?
Breast implants are made to mimic the look and feel of natural breast tissue, but this soft texture also means that, in certain circumstances, implants can visibly ripple or wrinkle beneath the skin. There are multiple possible causes of breast implant rippling, and more than one may apply when it comes to a given individual:
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What can a cosmetic surgeon do to correct visible rippling?
If you are experiencing a new visible implant ripple, your surgeon may fix the problem by either using fat transfer to cushion the area of rippling or breast implant revision surgery to correct the cause of the rippling.
Fat transfer involves using liposuction to remove fat from one area of your body, such as the abdomen, purifying the fat, and carefully injecting it into the breasts as a natural dermal filler.
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Breast implants are made to mimic the look and feel of natural breast tissue, but this soft texture also means that, in certain circumstances, implants can visibly ripple or wrinkle beneath the skin. There are multiple possible causes of breast implant rippling, and more than one may apply when it comes to a given individual:
- There is little natural breast tissue to cover and cushion the implant. If you have relatively thin breast tissue, then you may be at greater risk for visible implant rippling.
- The capsule is too small for the implant. During breast augmentation, your surgeon creates a pocket, or capsule, that needs to be precisely sized to hold the implant in place.
- Saline implants were under-filled. Unlike silicone implants, saline implants are filled during surgery to within a recommended range. Because underfilling is strongly associated with rippling, many surgeons precisely overfill implants to prevent the issue—but this requires judgment as overfilling can also lead to rippling.
- Saline implants have lost volume. Saline implants can lose volume over time if the valve fails. If this happens, the implants should be replaced to both remedy visible rippling and to stop the implant capsule from shrinking, which makes it difficult for your surgeon to give you a good result from future revision surgery.
- Scar tissue is tethered to the skin. Scar bands can form between your skin and the capsule of scar tissue your body forms naturally around the implant. With movement of the breast, this tethering can be visible through the skin.
- The capsule is adhering to your textured implants, leading to a rippled appearance.
- The surgeon placed too large an implant in relation to your breast width and amount of natural breast tissue.
- Weight loss after surgery has exacerbated breast implant rippling.
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Here is the education.
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What can a cosmetic surgeon do to correct visible rippling?
If you are experiencing a new visible implant ripple, your surgeon may fix the problem by either using fat transfer to cushion the area of rippling or breast implant revision surgery to correct the cause of the rippling.
Fat transfer involves using liposuction to remove fat from one area of your body, such as the abdomen, purifying the fat, and carefully injecting it into the breasts as a natural dermal filler.
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