Cohesive gel implants for breast augmentation

Commentary on: transaxillary endoscopic breast augmentation with shaped gel implants.

BACKGROUND At its inception, transaxillary breast augmentation was a blind technique associated with complications and unpredictable outcomes. The transaxillary approach now involves electrocautery dissection with direct endoscopic visualization and yields excellent aesthetic outcomes with a concealed scar. Shaped implant devices can be combined with transaxillary augmentation for natural-appea...

Sientra® High-Strength Cohesive Gel Implants

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Silicone Gel Breast Implants

Form-Stable Cohesive Gel Implants: Advantages and Technical Essentials

The advent of form-stable cohesive gel implants represents a significant device-related advance in the history of breast implants. Perhaps even more significant, however, are advances in the non–device-related process of breast augmentation itself, which have redefined the outcome and patient experience for this procedure.1 These refinements in breast augmentation technique have been particular...

Algorithm and techniques for using Sientra's silicone gel shaped implants in primary and revision breast augmentation.

With the 2006 Food and Drug Administration approval of round silicone gel breast implants in the United States, there still remained a lack of versatility in implant options. The approval of Sientra's shaped cohesive implants in 2012 brought with it the innovations needed to address varying patient needs. Because access to shaped devices is still fairly recent in the United States, some surgeon...