Breast Implants: What Happens When Your Body Fights Back? #shorts

When a implant fails, that implant is sent to the pathology lab. One, we're looking for rupture. Two, we're looking for what is actually growing around the implant. And additionally, we get something called a fiber fibrous capsule. And that capsule is deeply examined under the microscope to say, all right, what's going on in the capsule? Is there? Some of the more common things we see are dystrophic calcifications, which your body basically can respond to foreign bodies by killing off cells and making calcifications. We see macrophages, which is a subtype of blood cell that happens to occur when there's inflammation in the body. So the body is really making changes according to this foreign body that has been entered in it. And that's where I think it's important for women to realize that when you're having these cosmetic surgeries, any kind of cosmetic surgery you're having, how your body might react to it might be different than somebody else's. And that's kind of based off of your whole body's immune system.