Removing Your Implants

Once you have decided to get your implants removed, the first and most important step is finding a plastic surgeon that will properly remove your implants. The plastic surgeon who performed your original surgery is not necessarily the best choice for removing your implants. Some plastic or cosmetic surgeons are very experienced at implantation, but not explantation. However, there are some plastic surgeons who are very experienced at removal and are especially skilled at getting the best possible cosmetic result. The surgeon you choose should be experienced with explantation, board certified, and should be willing to show you pictures of many patients' post-explantation results.

Proper Explant

Most experts believe that removing the implants ‘en bloc’ is very important. This means that the entire implant and the entire scar tissue capsule surrounding it are all removed together. Although it is more difficult than removing just the implants, it makes it easier to remove any silicone that may have leaked from a broken gel implant, and also helps remove silicone or other chemicals that may have bled from the silicone outer envelope. You should ask your doctor if he/she would use this procedure.

Removing implants en bloc is particularly recommended by experts if you have been sick since receiving your implants. Some experts believe that symptoms such as joint pains, chronic flu-like symptoms, memory loss, confusion, or a burning sensation could be a result of silicone that has leaked from your implant, and perhaps outside the scar tissue capsule. If this is the case, leaving the scar tissue capsules, or part of them, and/or silicone in your body probably isn't going to let you recover as well as you might. It is also possible that while the silicone did not make you sick before, silicone that is left behind after explantation could make you sick later, because your body will respond to this foreign material.¹⁰

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