title: Breast augmentation: teaching our patients how compression can help prevent capsular contracture.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Camirand
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doucet
mesh_terms: D019928:Breast Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D003286:Contracture / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans