Children's Health
1. Do silicone implants represent a health risk?
Silicone already exists to a reasonable extent in the blood stream of any living being who has had injectable medication, because this is the lubricant used in injection needles and medicine against gases, among other applications.
It has already been scientifically proved that silicone is, up to this date, the best material for manufacturing implantable products, serving not only for aesthetic purposes but also in reconstructing many parts of the body.
2. Have mammary implants coated with polyurethane foam been forbidden by the FDA?
No. This implant has never been forbidden by the FDA.
3. Can the silicone gel leak?
In comparison with first-generation implants, only insignificant traces of gel can be found in the capsular tissue. This is due to the proven quality both of the implant envelopes and the filling gel, which is highly cohesive and of low transudation.
4. What does cohesiveness mean?
Cohesiveness is the property that silicone gel molecules have of keeping linked together and not allowing the gel to ‘leak’ if the implant breaks. A common mistake is to confuse hardness with cohesiveness. What characterizes a cohesive gel are properties of elongation and memory, rather than hardness. A gel does not need to be hard to be cohesive.
5. Patient's card?
In order to offer even more security, Silimed provides a "patient's card" on each implant box for the surgeon or his/her team to place the labels with the serial and ref numbers and the volume of the implants used on each breast. Always carry this card with you to show for any reason, such as a mammography examination.
6. What is the useful life of a silicone implant?
Silicone implants do not have a useful-life limit established by the scientific community. Silimed defines an average period of ten years as the expected useful life, but this parameter may be altered if some reason arises to justify it.
The patient must have periodical follow-up to assess the need to change the implant. Although the limits of the useful life of implants are not acknowledged by the scientific community, Silimed defines an average period of ten years as the expected useful life, but this parameter may be changed if some reason arises to justify it. Today we know of several patients in Brazil and abroad who have had the same implant for more than twenty years without any problem.
7. How often after surgery should I visit the doctor for a check-up?
It is best that a semi-annual or annual basis control is made with your doctor.
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