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| Possible Breast Implant Complications | Experiencing any surgical procedure may involve the risk of complications like the effects of anesthesia, bleeding, swelling, infection, redness, and pain. Additionally, there are possible complications particular to breast implants. These complications are the following:
 Deflation/Rupture
Breast implants let down when the saline solution percolates both through an unsealed or damaged valve and through a break in the implant shell. Implant deflation can happen right after or over a period of days and is observed by loss of size or shape of your breast.
Capsular Contracture
Capsular contracture is the condition when the scar tissue or capsule that normally forms around the breast implant constrict and press the breast implant. Symptoms of capsular contracture vary from mild firmness and mild discomfort to severe pain, curved shape, tangibility of the breast implant, and motion of the breast implant.
Pain
Pain of changing strength and length may happen and continue following breast implant surgery.
Additional Surgeries
You should be aware that there is a high chance that you will need to have additional surgery to replace the breast implant. Besides, problems like deflation, capsular contracture, infection, shifting, and calcium deposits can call for removal of the breast implants.
Dissatisfaction with Cosmetic Results
Dissatisfying results like wrinkling, asymmetry, implant displacement (shifting), wrong size, unexpected shape, implant palpability, scar deformity, hypertrophic (irregular, raised scar) scarring, and sloshing may happen. Watchful surgical planning and technique can reduce but not always prevent such results.
Infection
Infection can arise with any surgery. Nearly all infections resulting from surgery appear within a few days to weeks after the operation. Nevertheless, infection is possible at any time after surgery. Infections with a breast implant present are harder to treat than infections in normal body tissues.
Changes in Nipple and Breast Sensation
Sensitivity in the nipple and breast can enlarge or reduce after breast implant surgery. Changes in the sensitivity can be impermanent or enduring and may influence your sexual reaction or your ability to nurse a baby.
Delayed Wound Healing
Sometimes the incision site takes longer to heal than normally.
Extrusion
Wobbly or compromised tissue covering and interruption of wound healing may lead to extrusion, which is when the breast implant comes through the skin.
Necrosis
Necrosis is the creation of dead tissue around the breast implant. This may stop wound healing and need surgical correction and breast implant removal. Enduring scar deformity may happen following necrosis. Factors related to increased necrosis include infection, use of steroids in the surgical pocket, smoking, chemotherapy, and excessive heat or cold therapy.
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