A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video (hosted/created by Robert Whitfield MD) discussing long-term silicone breast implant integrity. The speakers compare implants to classic cars and note that rupture risk increases with implant age; one explicit claim is that rupture rate rises by about 0.5% per year after roughly 8–10 years.
About 0.5% (half percent) per year.
Unless you're into classic cars. Nobody drives a car from the 60s.
No. They must be rock hard no matter what. Have you ever seen a soft implant after 30 years?
Rarely. They will be soft and normal, as you're describing, because you can't tell the shell characteristics. I always, like, put them on video and I squish them around to see if they've had a integrity issue. But I don't have a microscope at the look at it. So I don't. No. But many times they're breaking down, obviously, because the rupture rate increases, you know, half percent per year after eight to 10 years. So I'm always when people show up and they're like, well, the MRI says I don't have a rupture.
