Robert Whitfield MD explains how to safely remove breast implant capsules. Calcified capsules must come out. The surgeon makes an incision in the inframammary crease, lifts the breast to expose the capsule, and inspects it on the back table, where ruptured implant contents may only become visible then.
You know, opening those capsules to take the gel out was a mess, and the calcified capsule could not be left behind. Whether you did nothing or whether you put another implant in, because you could feel it. It was. It was pathologic. So I disappointed those patients by telling them they needed an incision in the crease of the breast that they might not have had originally. And then I would lift the breast and skin up, like opening, know the hood on your car and expose that capsule and do a total capsulectomy. And I never saw the ruptured contents that was in it until it was on the back table.
