just wondered about the above,i know implants only last about 15 yrs or so,so what happens after that???do u need to have them removed and pay another £4000 to get them redone???or can you just have them removed and leave as they are???if you did that though wouldnt the skin be stretched and you would be left with empty sacks???
also im a bit worried about checking for breast cancer etc,can you feel breast lumps with the implants????

Hi I am having to get my redone as I had them 16 years ago but now one has become a little hard and also they don't look as natural as before.

I am now 48 and am planning to have surgery soon maybe with Rajiv Grover.

Another problem is I've now been recommended to have anatomical implants as my previous ones were round but I am not sure yet what to do.

Hope that helps

Hi,
Hopefully i'll be able to help with your questions a little bit, as I asked my PS similar things when i went to meet him about a month ago (I still haven't decided whether to go ahead with the op).

He said to me that there is no guarantee how long an implant will last, some peoples will burst/lose shape etc after 5 years and others will last a really long time. apparently, the average is being suggested as 15years but in current studies there are people who had theirs done 20 years ago and still have no problems - when you consider that the implants now are much better than they were then, 15 years is probably quite a negative estimate. My PS did say to me though that as I am only young, it is more than likely that I would need to have them redone at some point.

For a redo, you would have to pay the fee again. if you wanted to remove the implants and not replace them, i don't think there is a charge for that, or at least not a high one. however, if you don't replace them the skin will have stretched to fit the implants and you will no longer have enough tissue to fill them - so yes, you would be left with sagging/wrinkling skin. this can be corrected by removing some skin (using a cut underneath the breast and a cut leading up to the nipple), but obviously this procedure would also need to be paid for (not sure on the price sorry).

implants will never effect hospital detection of cancer, mammograms are still perfectly safe. when it comes to feeling them for yourself, if the implant is submuscular i don't think it will make any difference at all. if youre going for overs, it still shouldn't make too much difference as the implant will be below the majority of the tissue that you have now anyway, which is where the lumps would arise. if anything, people with implants are probably going to be more conscious of their breasts and making sure theres no problems with their implants etc so might even notice any lumps sooner.

I hope this helps, if you're worried your best bet is probably to have a free consultation with a PS.

Kay

i've just seen your other post further down the board so thought i'd answer a couple more of your questions - the pain will be worse if you have submuscular implants, but should still only last a couple of weeks. its during this time that you'll probably need help with day to day tasks such as picking up your toddler. the submuscular implants will also take longer to settle fully, and can take up to 3months.
in most cases, breastfeeding is still fine after implants. it is thought that breastfeeding might be more guaranteed to be fine after submuscular implants as this means that cutting around the nipple is less likely, and also that the breast tissue is less interfered with, but this is not proven and most people who have had overs have also gone on to breastfeed fine.
just so you know, my consultation was at abbey pines in manchester too - with Mr Selvaggi. he was happy to answer all of my questions and didn't rush me at all so i was very pleased with him. i still havent decided whether to go ahead with the op and have a few more questions i'm getting a second free consultation with him in january

cant answer all the questions but will try to help with some. From what I understand the actual implants will probably last a lifetime but after 10-15 years depending on the age when you have it done in the forst place the breasts change and its this which makes people want to have them re-done. As you get older (i know this for sure!) the breast tissue goes the breasts head south etc. I dont know what is likely to happen to the breasts of say a 25 year old who has largish implants- are they more likely to droop when older or not? I had a cancer scare this year and had lumps which turned out to be cysts and when I mentioned this to PS he said its just as easy to feel with implants as without and advised me to go ahead.I also have wondered about having them taken out and the skin but I dont know the answer to that. Guess you will have to pay though!