A surgical video (YouTube) by Robert Whitfield MD documenting explantation of very old saline breast implants. The surgeon narrates intraoperative findings: significant calcium deposits with a crunching sound, capsular contracture, and removal attempts; he identifies the implants as Mentor Smooth 325cc devices.
We're taking out some very old implants today and got a lot of calcium on them and they're contracted. You can see on both sides there's a lot of white and calcium. We're just going to further open this up. We're going to hear some crunching. These are really old saline so let's just see if we can peel it out here. I don't want to cut it so you can see that almost calcium deposition like little eggshell in here. You can hear it kind of crunch around. These are Mentor Smooth 325cc devices. Does it look like there's anything wrong with those? We'll go from my little biopsy port over here on this side where she has this contracture and you can hear. I'll hold it up. You can hear it. Pop that open. So there's just a lot of calcium deposition in this. Doesn't really have a. A slimy feel or anything so I don't think that has any.
