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Breast implants vary greatly in price depending on the material, does the quality of the material make a difference? (Note! I didn’t use the words “there is a big difference”) I think this is a very important concern for candidates. At present, in Europe and the United States and the United States more commonly used and China’s import and clinical use of breast implants licensed brands are mainly the United States Magnesium, Mantle, Myrtle and France’s ES, the United Kingdom Na high, these brands in the domestic application is also very common. However, due to the high price, it is difficult for those who have poor consumption ability to afford. Domestic brands recognized by the Ministry of Health include Shanghai’s Corning, Shanghai’s Wining and Guangzhou’s Wanhe, which are more commonly used in the middle and lower end of the consumer population.
Let’s take a look at the introduction of each prosthesis company to their products.
U.S. Mag: Mag breast implants are made of soft adhesive silicone gel, which has good shape memory (i.e., after stopping kneading the breast, the implant quickly returns to its original shape) and a soft feel. In addition, the hinged arrangement of silicone molecules achieves a high degree of flexibility and adhesion, and the silicone gel will not flow even if the shell is broken. The seven-layer structure of the shell contains the INTRASHIEL (internal barrier) anti-leakage technology, which minimizes leakage of silicone gel. The use of BIOCELL/MICROCELL microporous surface production technology allows human tissue to grow between the microporous holes, thus creating moderate adhesion between the prosthesis and the tissue, while preventing the formation of thread-like collagen fibers, effectively reducing the incidence of post-operative contracture and hardening of the envelope.
Mentor: Mentor (USA) is the world’s oldest and largest company producing artificial breast implants, with a history of more than thirty years of production and sales. It has three production bases worldwide, all of which have been awarded the “CE” mark by the European Community. As early as 1992, Mentor’s breast implants were approved by the US FDA. After more than 30 years of clinical application, the use of gel implants and saline implants has become the safest and most effective method of breast augmentation in the world. Mentor’s breast implants have been in the Chinese market for more than ten years and have been well received by the majority of beauty lovers and patients who need breast reconstruction after breast cancer surgery. Mentor breast implants feel real, have a natural shape, and are safe and reliable.
France ES: One of the advantages and disadvantages of breast implants is the impermeability of its outer coating. In order to guarantee the excellence of the product, EUROSILICONE uses the world-renowned NUSIL technology (NUSIL is the world leader in the production of silicone). Since its foundation in 1979, NUSIL has focused on the research and development of silicone technology. The silicone produced by NUSIL is consistently recognized as a guarantee of quality, just as NUSIL obtained the IS9001 international certification in 1994. Nusil technology effectively blocks silicone leaks, high viscosity silicone further prevents silicone flow, and high viscosity silicone raw materials provide the best bio- and physical compatibility and irreplaceable safety.
Shanghai Corning: The company launched the “Margaret Margaret” surface low-flocking artificial breast product in late 2004, using the international advanced short-flocking technology, forming a porous fleece tissue with a height of only a few millimeters on the surface of the artificial breast capsule. After implantation, the tissue can grow inward, which greatly improves the compatibility of human tissue with the implant, reduces the probability of post-operative complications, and allows for easy and safe removal. The use of highly elastic adhesive has been well received by domestic and foreign industry professionals, reflecting the best level of artificial breast manufacturing in China. The introduction of “Margarita” series of products has filled the gap of domestic artificial breast manufacturing and confirmed Corning’s leading position in the domestic artificial breast manufacturing industry.
Shanghai Weining: The use of “cross-linking” technology makes the product’s tear resistance, surface treatment and impermeability all reach the international advanced level. 1, the use of more compatible with the human body biomedical grade silicone gel material; 2, the second vulcanization capping technology; 3, more significant anti-contracture performance; 4, the technical index requirements are more stringent, the prosthesis tear resistance, higher degree of resistance to breakage; 5, through cross-linking technology, so that the product feels more realistic.
Guangzhou’s Wanhe: the surface is porous villi tissue, good biocompatibility, effective prevention of postoperative complications such as envelope contracture, while making the tissue to the microporous growth of the villi and natural combination with it, fixed implanted prosthesis. The capsule has a super elastic eight-layer structure, and the capsule is effectively strengthened while maintaining elasticity, combined with advanced anti-leakage isolation technology to effectively prevent leakage. Filled with ultra-soft mesh gel for a natural feel.
My interpretation of the above product introduction
Comprehensive introduction of the above product companies, the quality of breast augmentation materials is mainly shown in the following aspects.
1.Good solubility of the material and body tissue;
2.Good anti-rupture;
3.Good anti-leakage of the contents (anti-leakage);
4.Long-lasting maintenance of form;
5, realistic feel;
6, the surface of the microporous structure, human tissue can grow into the micro-space, effectively prevent the contracture of the envelope.
Briefly discuss my understanding of breast implant materials
After nearly 50 years of clinical application, silicone breast implants have experienced fluid, semi-fluid, and now the global common use of non-fluid (soft viscous silicone gel). After years of nearly one million cases (only about 350,000 cases recorded in the United States) and more than one thousand cases of clinical application (I use slightly more domestic breast implants than imported ones), I think that whether imported or domestic breast implants, their tissue compatibility, resistance to kneading and pressure, shape retention, softness and realism are the most important factors. In my opinion, whether imported or domestic breast implants, there is no need to question their tissue compatibility, resistance to compression, shape retention, softness and realism, as well as their safety to human body (many cases of breast augmentation failure reported in the media in recent years were caused by surgical techniques).
However, I disagree with some of the descriptions of the above breast implants (Note: When I compiled the descriptions of the implants produced by the above companies, I deleted the words “patented and best” used by some of them, because other companies also use the raw materials and technologies they claim to be patented, whether they are “pirated and infringing” or not. (piracy, infringement, I do not know), for example: the current imported or domestic prosthesis, almost all of the so-called “microporous structure” of the fluffy surface, there is information in the introduction of these microporous, said to be the human tissue to the microporous growth, between the prosthesis and the tissue to produce a moderate adhesion, prevent The formation of thread-like collagen fibers effectively reduces the incidence of postoperative prosthetic contracture and stiffening. Whether this is correct or not is not a matter of debate, but one thing is certain: the plastic surgeon cannot allow the tissue to grow into the micropores. Because, if the tissue grows into the micropore, it means that the tissue and the prosthesis fit very tightly, the prosthesis will be fixed, and the consequence of this situation is: hard breasts!
Briefly describe the relationship between the shape of the implant (including teardrop-shaped implants) and the shape of the breast after breast augmentation
First of all, let’s get to know what the shape of a perfect breast looks like. When the human body is standing, most of the breast tissue is located in the lower part of the breast, the upper part of the breast is straight diagonal, the lower part of the breast is rounded and can be seen under the breast crease (i.e. the rounded line of the lower edge of the breast), this is the perfect natural shape of the breast, in recent years is described by advertising as “teardrop-shaped breast”, and push a new shape of the breast In recent years, a new shape of breast implant, namely “teardrop-shaped breast implant”, has been introduced to cater to the needs of women pursuing perfect breasts, but because of a change in the shape of breast implants, many beauty seekers pay more money. After breast augmentation, the breasts are teardrop-shaped must use “teardrop-shaped breast implants”? No!
The “disc-shaped breast implants” can also make the breasts into a teardrop shape! The shape of the breasts after breast augmentation is determined by two factors: the basic shape of the breasts before breast augmentation, and the location of the breast implants. The former is inherent and the latter is determined by the skill level of the surgeon. A plastic surgeon with a good level of skill is shown to take a breast with poor breast shape and make it much prettier than it was through breast augmentation; take a breast with a better basic shape and turn it into a perfect or near perfect breast, i.e. teardrop-shaped breast, through breast augmentation! It can be seen that what determines the shape of the breast after breast augmentation is not in the form of the implant, but in the skill level of the surgeon!
There is also such a problem with using teardrop shaped breast implants. Female breasts are soft because they have a lot of movement. The basic prerequisite for ensuring a good feel after breast augmentation is that the implant also has good mobility, i.e. the cavity where the implant is placed should be larger than the prosthesis. If this is the case, the implant can be rotated in the cavity, which is also the case in practice. Seen “teardrop-shaped breast prosthesis” are aware that the upper half of the teardrop-shaped breast prosthesis is very flat, the lower half is full. If the teardrop-shaped prosthesis is turned in the cavity, it is possible for the lower part of the prosthesis to turn and go to the top of the breast, thus making the shape of the breast from large to small, to large to small.
Of course, since the lower part of the prosthesis can be turned to the upper part, can also be turned back to the lower part, but there are also turned to the upper part of the turn back to the lower, I have seen a case, occurred in the 2 weeks after surgery, this is placed in the cavity than the prosthesis is not a lot of large, the lower part of the teardrop-shaped prosthesis turned to the upper part of the breast, not in time to turn back to the lower part, and because of the massage is not timely, the cavity narrowed, so that the prosthesis cannot be turned back.