Dr. Robert Whitfield explains that the body naturally forms scar tissue around breast implants, but capsular contracture is a separate problem. Firmness, tenderness, or implant shifting warrant a call to your provider for evaluation.
So if you have implants and you're concerned about symptoms, you may have symptoms of firmness, tenderness, malposition, all those things, please discuss that with your providers with the appropriate history, exam, imaging, all the other testing that your provider can help you with. Let's begin with the problem like we discussed is after breast implants are placed, the body normally forms a layer of scar tissue and it's a capsule. So a capsule by itself is a normal biologic response to the implanted device. Capsular contracture is different.
