Observations and Conclusions From 20 Years’ Experience with the Single-Lumen Inflatable Breast Implant with 3500 Patients

Abstract

PG Whidden. Observations and conclusions from 20 years’ experience with the single-lumen inflatable breast implant with 3500 patients. Can J Plast Surg 1993;1(1):39-43. Thirty-five hundred patients underwent breast augmentation between April 1972 and April 1992; 68% were followed for a minimum of one year. The capsular contracture rate (Baker II or greater) was 8% and the product failure rate was 1%, using the Mentor/Heyer-Schulte RTV diaphragm-valve, centre-fill device. The replacement of an occasional deflated implant appears far preferable to the correction of the higher than 8% incidence of capsular contracture widely reported with the use of silicone gel-filled implants.