Up until the mid-1990’s, surgeons would forcefully squeeze a contracted breast with their hands until they broke the capsule. This would make the breast soft. However, these breasts almost always became hard again. And the force sufficient to break the capsular tissue would often break the implant, and the severe squeezing would cause more liquid silicone of that era to squirt into the breast. No one realized at the time how bad a practice that was, but it has long been abandoned. And it also was very painful.