Silicone Gel-Filled Breast Implants

The approval of Allergan's Natrelle Breast Implants by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has opened doors to more options than ever before for patients seeking breast implant surgery. Now, after completing the Allergan Physician Certification Program, Dr. Ebert is able to access the Natrelle Matrix of breast implant options to provide the One Right Result to each individual patient.

In 2005, nearly 340,000 women in the U.S. had breast implant surgery. Of those, approximately 14% were reconstruction patients. While research shows that surgeons and patients prefer silicone gel-filled breast implants to saline-filled implants, saline has been the only option for women seeking augmentation surgery until now.

Today's silicone gel-filled breast implants are different from the products that were available in the 1970's. Arguably, no other medical device has been more studied for safety than silicone gel-filled breast implants and decades of research have evaluated their safety and effectiveness. The research shows that silicone gel-filled breast implants are safe. Natrelle Silicone-Filled Breast Implants have been used with success for more than three decades in over 60 different countries. They have an outer shell that is more than 50% thicker than earlier implant devices and can withstand more than 25 times the force of a normal mammogram without failure.