Saline implants are heavier and prone to rippling, while silicone feels softer and conforms better to the body. Saline leaks are obvious, but silicone's gel stays put. Both carry risks like capsular contracture, and the speaker recommends replacing implants every ten years.
Saline or silicone? Saline has more rippling. You can even see it here. It doesn't fill with air like this one. This is just outside the body, but it does have saline in it, and saline is a lot heavier than silicone. Not a lot, but a fair amount heavier. The net problem with that is it tends to kind of bottom out or fall off to the side more. It also has two round sides, more projected, so it tends to look a little bit more fake than a silicone implant. A silicone has a flat side and a round side that kind of conforms to your body more. Does still have silicone in terms of the actual shell. You can get breast implant illness, you can get capsular contracture, you could get issues from a saline implant just like silicone, although capsular contraction rate is lower with saline. The incision can be smaller with the saline implant, and the cost can be slightly less. Those are the two main pros for that. But a lot of doctors, including myself, can keep silicone incision very small, especially going with the border of the areola. But if you feel these, these are much more softer, squishy, they're much more feeling like a breast. If they rupture, it's not a big deal anymore because the gel doesn't pour throughout the body. It's cohesive, gummy bear, right? It can still cause issues, but it's not going to be this big dramatic thing where you have to go into lymph nodes and everything to clean it out. Saline, when it ruptures, obviously that's an immediate, like, flat tire. You know when it's ruptured. I would you can always get an MRI, or you could just swap these out every 10 years and then you don't have to worry about it. Let me know in the comments if you like saline or silicone. Which team are you on?
