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Implant problems, named and corrected

Hardening, drifting, rippling, rupture, regret — every one has a name, a mechanism and a fix. One page, honestly mapped, so you can recognise yours.

Capsular Contracture

Hardening and distortion as scar tissue tightens around an implant — the single most common reason UK patients seek revision. Graded, assessed, and corrected with capsule surgery and (usually) implant exchange.

Rupture & Ageing Implants

Silicone ruptures are often silent; many UK women carry implants well past the point they'd choose to, simply for lack of a plan. Assessment, imaging guidance and unhurried exchange.

Malposition & Bottoming Out

Implants that sit too low, too wide, or drift outward when you lie down. Pocket repair with internal suture techniques — precision work that rewards revision experience.

Rippling & Visible Edges

Wrinkling you can see or feel, usually where tissue is thin. Solved by plane change, implant choice, and often fat grafting for coverage — sometimes all three.

Wrong Size or Shape

Too big for your frame, too small to notice, or a look that was never what you asked for. Exchange sized by measurement — and by listening properly this time.

A First Surgery That Went Wrong

Asymmetry, distortion or complications after surgery at home or abroad. Rescue work is this practice's centre of gravity — brought here from across the UK and beyond.

How correction is chosen

The problem picks the operation — not a menu.

Contracture points to capsule surgery with exchange; malposition to internal pocket repair; rippling to plane change, implant choice and often fat grafting; suspected rupture to imaging first, then unhurried exchange; and 'wrong size' to the measurement conversation that should have happened the first time. Combinations are common — one careful operation usually addresses several findings at once.

What every correction shares: it's planned from a named diagnosis, and performed by the surgeon who made it.

  • Photos usually suffice to start. A working diagnosis comes back from your first message.
  • Imaging where it matters. Ultrasound/MRI guidance for rupture questions — arranged sensibly, not reflexively.
  • Both sides planned together. Even single-side problems are corrected with the pair in view.

Which one is yours?

Describe what changed and when — the named answer comes back free.

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