{"id":43,"date":"2012-03-23T20:27:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:11:10","slug":"capsular-contracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/capsular-contracture\/","title":{"rendered":"Capsular Contracture"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the risks of breast augmentation<\/a> is capsular contracture. So what is capsular contracture? Well let\u2019s start by saying that developing a capsule around an implant is entirely normal. The body forms a capsule around any foreign object, whether it\u2019s a breast implant, chin implant, or hip implant. It is just your natural immune response. However, in some women, the body continues to form a thicker and thicker capsule which eventually can lead to a firm breast and in the most extreme cases can distort the look of the breast and cause pain.<\/p>\n

Now there are some known causes of capsular contracture, such as bleeding, infection, and trauma. However a majority of women who develop capsular contracture have none of these factors. We are starting to learn that in a lot of theses capsular contracture cases, there is a low level of bacteria on and around the implant\u2026not enough to cause an infection, but enough to keep the immune system revved up. In most women the treatment of a capsular contracture means a revision surgery to remove the capsule, replace the implant with a new implant, and to place the implant in a new pocket. A new therapy which is used in recurrent cases of capsular contracture is the use of Strattice, which I will discuss in a future submission. To learn more about breast implants visit my website at drdadvandplasticsurgery.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the risks of breast augmentation is capsular contracture. So what is capsular contracture? Well let\u2019s start by saying that developing a capsule around an implant is entirely normal. The body forms a capsule around any foreign object, whether it\u2019s a breast implant, chin implant, or hip implant. It is just your natural immune response. However, in some women, the body continues to form ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breast-implants"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdadvandplasticsurgery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}