Breast augmentation: teaching our patients how compression can help prevent capsular contracture.
If we insert a foreign body into a human being, physiologically, we get a capsular contracture because a periprosthetic scar contracts to give the implant a spherical shape, the smallest surface area for a given volume. To antagonize this contracture, one must stretch the periprosthetic scar and this can be accomplished with compression.
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D019928:Breast Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D003286:Contracture / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans