Short excerpt from a YouTube discussion (host/clinician: Robert Whitfield MD) about breast implant capsule complications. The speaker recounts that one implant became hard after a couple of years, was checked for rupture (none found), and later the other implant hardened after they stopped racing; the clinician notes that hardening (capsular contracture) varies with scar quality.
You had mentioned the capsule. And just as another sort of point of reference for people listening, one thing that happened to me was that they were fine for a couple of years, and then one got hard. And then I thought, oh, maybe I hit a wall. So I had to check to see if it was ruptured. It was fine. Time had just passed and I thought, oh, I get them out or I'll replace them, or I'll replace one. I don't know. And then the other one got hard. And that was after I was done racing completely. So I was like, oh, that's weird. So what does that mean when an implant gets a certain starts forms continuously. More scar tissue? Yeah. It can vary depending on what the quality of the scar is like.
