Breast augmentation is the most popular plastic surgery procedure. According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, close to 400,000 are performed annually. Much of this popularity is due to the high satisfaction women have with the results. Surveys find the satisfaction among women with breast implants to exceed 90%. Some women, while pleased with their augmentation, elect, for various reasons, to exchange their implants.
One out of eight women with breast implants will have more than one surgery on her breasts. Over time a woman's breasts change and her aesthetic taste may vary as well. Many women who have request a subsequent Breast Implant Surgery, do so because they want larger implants. In fact, 34% of secondary breast augmentations were performed specifically to increase size. Another increasingly common reason for breast implant exchanges is to replace saline implants with the recently FDA-approved silicone gel implants. There are actually many reasons why a woman may undergo a breast implant exchange or revision breast surgery. Aside from a change in size, these include treating an implant deflation (for saline breast implants), treating an implant rupture (for silicone breast implants), capsular contracture, improving implant position and breast shape and to reduce rippling.
