Silicone Breast Implants vs. Saline Breast Implants

Cosmetic surgeon Dr. Anthony Brignoni has provided breast augmentation procedures including breast implant surgery and breast lifts to women from South West Florida, including Charlotte County, Lee County, Fort Myers, Naples, Sarasota, Punta Gorda, and Port  Charlotte, Florida.

The decision to choose silicone breast implants vs. saline breast implants is at the top of the list of issues that women sometimes struggle with when they’ve decided to undergo breast augmentation surgery. The next issue is deciding on cup size.

Saline Breast Implants vs. Silicone Breast Implant Safety

One thing that many women don’t realize is that saline and silicone breast implants both have an outer silicone shell. Silicone breast implants are filled with silicone gel. Saline breast implants are filled with saline water.

Women worry about the safety of silicone implants due to lack of information that they’ve read. Some women believe that if there was ever a leak, a puncture or a break that would allow the silicone gel implant interior to leak into a woman’s body that it would be unsafe. This is not true.

Silicone breast implants are FDA-approved. Silicone gel in silicone breast implants, if leaked, isn’t thought to cause health issues, however, a silicone gel leak may cause breast pain or breast shape changes.

To prevent this issue and concern, the FDA recommends regular MRIs to accurately monitor for any irregularities in the silicone breast implants so that a woman may know if a leak has occurred. An MRI can detect a silicone breast implant leak. The FDA has not found a link between silicone breast implants and breast cancer.

Women who may not be familiar with or educated about silicone breast implants may not know that breast exams known as mammograms ARE able to detect irregularities through the silicone gel breast implants.

The upside of the implant and main reason for selecting the silicone breast implant over a saline breast implant is its natural feel. Silicone gel breast implants are very similar and feels so much like actual breast tissue and looks like a real breast that women prefer it.

But the concern over what happens to the silicone within the body should a leak occur can make her consider the use of saline implants if she is choosing to undergo breast augmentation surgery.

The final choice as to which kind of breast implant a woman makes is completely personal. Dr. Brignoni explains that in general the upside is that silicone implants feel very real and are close to the feel of real breast tissue. They’re soft, yet firm, smooth and flexible.

The saline implant is filled with saline water AFTER the implant has been inserted so it provides a smaller incision. However a new procedure using a funnel allows a small incision to be used with the implant of the silicone implant into the body.

Breast implant surgery is a very big choice and knowing that what you’re putting into your body is safe no matter what. Dr. Brignoni uses only FDA-approved saline and silicone breast implants.

Dr. Brignoni is a highly skilled and experienced cosmetic surgeon. Dr. Anthony Brignoni has also been a gynecologist and an obstetrician since 1991 in Port Charlotte, Florida. Women have traveled to Port Charlotte, Florida, from around the United States for surgery with Dr. Brignoni. 

Call for an appointment to consult with Dr. Anthony Brignoni at the Brignoni Cosmetogynecology Center located at 2300 Loveland Blvd., Ste. #1, Port Charlotte, Florida, 33980. You can ask anything you’d like, get answers, read information and view a range of breast implants both silicone and saline, try them on in a special bra and look at previous patients before and after breast implant surgeries.

You’re also invited to look at Dr. Brignoni’s photogallery online that shows before and after breast implant pictures. Contact Dr. Brignoni at 941-743-6866.