Re: Question for all you smart ones!

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My surgeon is doing a total capsule removal. Why is it so important to do enbloc with Saline implants? Thank ladies. DGMCLADY98@... wrote: Thanks Rogene..I forgot who removed yours ? So you girls could help me with the detox what all to do and what not to do together ? I really would like to be able to go to the PS used he is much closer and does remove enbloc...but I don't know can't make up my mind.

[Guest guest]

With en bloc, total capsulectomy is assured . . . Not vice-versa. With en bloc, the doctor will remove the capsule with the implant still inside. The idea is to prevent any contaminats from spilling into your chest cavity. It takes a doctor longer - most of them would prefer not to . . . However, Drs. Feng, Huang and Kolb will do everything possible to remove the implants en bloc. It's possible that a surgeon may draw off saline solution with a needle before doing the en bloc procedure. . . Makes sense that it would be easier. Rogene

[Guest guest]

I think the important thing is to request it and have it in writing

on your surgical form. That way your surgeon " agrees " to try to do

it enbloc.

Technically the theory is that it is important so that whatever has

leached into the capsule does not leach into the cavity or your

body.

However, the truth of the matter for some is that the capsules with

saline implants can be very thin and enbloc may not be something the

surgeon can really do. The capsule may come off in pieces.

Many surgeons have said it is like lifting off wet tissue paper.

My surgeon told me that enbloc is much easier with silicone implants

where the capsules are thicker and in some cases have hardened.

AFter seeing mine after my surgery the other day, I agree that at

least mine were very thin. I had mine in 12 years.

So I got my surgeon to agree that if mine were thin that he would do

his 100% best to get all the capsule out...even the capsule on the

back side that might be plastered to the chest wall and any that may

be on the rib cage....etc.

Hope this helps....

> Thanks Rogene..I forgot who removed yours ? So you

girls could help me with the detox what all to do and what not to do

together ? I really would like to be able to go to the PS

used he is much closer and does remove enbloc...but I don't know

can't make up my mind.

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