We regard this as socially the most acceptable and necessary time for implants to be used, but medically it is the most risky and unjustifiable time to use them. The FDA also found that complications become more and more common for each year implants spend in the body. Another FDA study found that even among women who had not complained of any perceived trouble with their implants, MRI scans showed two thirds of them have ruptured implants on at least one side. The rate was actually higher in 10 to 15 year old implants than with 20 year old ones, because the oldest ones had thicker containers. In 21 percent of women in the study, silicone was found to have migrated elsewhere in the body.
Doctors removing implants often claim that they ruptured at the time of removal.
This study makes me suspect, as some patients long have, that many doctors are lying about this to avoid liability. Though rare, it is not unknown for complications to be so severe that the breast ends up getting amputated. The chest wall can be injured. Your lungs and heart can be affected. You can end up dead .