It isn’t necessarily so. It must also be considered depending on individual’s demand. It would be better to apply silicon gel-filled implants if the patients who received the first surgery do care about the fold appearance of the water bags or the unnatural feeling when touched them. Moreover, if you have extremely thin skin tissue or a skinny figure, silicone implants can avoid any touch defect in future. If you were in a good condition, it would not be different between saline implants or silicone implants.

The fee depends on the surgery length because of the increasing anesthesia expense consists with the surgery time. In addition, the fee would be higher when patients apply silicone gel-filled implants. If you are going to save some money, you can consider not changing your breast implants or just correct one side of the breast with more apparent and serious problems. However, I believe that the doctor would assess the difficulty and time of your surgery to determine the surgery fee. I suggest you consult with your doctor in advance.

The procedures of capsular removal and breast prosthesis implantation are performed at the same time for majority of revision mammaplasty. But an excepted condition occurs when patients have capsular contracture, the implants must be placed under the muscle instead of the original site which under the fascia. Because of the breast skin has already been propped up by the breast prosthesis, (the fascia is under the skin), it becomes loose. If we removed the implants to other position, the appearance of the breasts would be like wrinkled and sagging bags. I always suggest our patients a six months recovery time after removing the breast prosthesises in order to facilitate skin and fascia go back to the original positions. Hence, that we re-install new breast prosthesises after an appropriate recovery will achieve satisfactory results.