title: Have you checked all your breast implants?
abstract: Mammary prostheses were initially used to increase breast volume in patients with mammary hypoplasia or hypotrophy. Checking more than 200 patients from two to ten years after operation, favorable results were found mainly in patients with congenital hypoplasia. When prostheses were used in mammary hypotrophy following hypertrophy, results were unfavorable, though sometimes the patient herself was satisfied. We conclude that patients requiring implants must be accurately selected. Prostheses should be used only when we are certain that favorable results will last much longer than six months after operation.
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D004954:Esthetics; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D019736:Prostheses and Implants