Sentence examples for saline implant from inspiring English sources

Mentor studied 1,680 saline implant recipients.

She had a second operation with that doctor last April to replace a deflated saline implant whose collapse made her left breast look "hollow"; her implants were still under warranty, but she did have to pay for the trip to California and lost a week's pay, she said.

Axial T2W images demonstrate the intracapsular rupture of this saline implant.

Open image in new window Fig. 10 A 66-year-old women with a history of left breast cancer treated with mastectomy in 1990, with saline implant reconstruction.

b, c) Axial T1W fat-saturated contrast-enhanced images, showing AlloDerm used for breast reconstruction seen medially (arrows) and inferior image showing the saline implant in place with overlying skin thickening.

Six weeks to the day after I first felt the famous "thickening," I underwent a double mastectomy with immediate saline implant reconstruction.

And saline implants can cause visible, tactile rippling beneath the skin.

"My plastic surgeon told me that my saline implants should last forever," said Krista Schell.

Silicone implants are most frequently used, not saline implants.

Saline implants are $700 each, while silicone (available only to cancer patients and women with chest defects) are $1,000 each.

A25 SCIENCE/HEALTH No Bar to Saline Implants The F.D.A. decided to permit two implant makers to continue marketing saline breast implants, despite new scientific evidence that some patients had had adverse effects.