SURGEON EXPERIENCES
Network Surgeons Share Their Experience with IDEAL IMPLANT
“From a surgeon’s perspective, the best thing involved is you don’t really have to worry about silent ruptures . . . It’s incredibly safe and so there’s far fewer lifetime surgeries with an IDEAL IMPLANT compared to traditional silicone gel implants . . . Here you have something with all the advantages of a silicone implant, without the disadvantages. So, it’s a win-win situation.”
—Dr. Larry Nichter, Pacific Center for Plastic Surgery, Newport Beach, CA
“Since I’ve introduced IDEAL to my practice, I’ve had almost no patients who’ve chosen to have something else. That’s not because I’m pushing something, and it’s not because I say, ‘Well, this is the one that I want you to use, and also there’s this other stuff.’ Because I don’t think that’s fair . . . I think there’s something that this implant offers that I’m responding to, and that my patients are responding to. The surprise I have is the scale in which it’s happening. Then when you really sit down and think about it, it’s really not that surprising . . . the results have been great and the patient satisfaction is very high.”
—Dr. Sophie Bartsich, Plastic Surgery of New York, New York, NY
“I am just so excited to see such a new device come out that’s really a blend, I think, of the best of both worlds . . . I feel really confident in offering it . . . The numbers don’t lie. They really are leading us to believe that everything about the implant is better, including its stability and durability too.”
—Dr. Paul Leahy, Monarch Plastic Surgery, Leawood, KS
“I have used the Ideal implant for several years now. I was the first plastic surgeon to use them in the Richmond area. I definitely prefer them for my breast augmentation patients. The FDA re-released silicone implants on condition that these patients have an MRI to check the integrity of these implants every few years. This is because we do not know the long-term health effects of rupture in our latest generation of silicone implants. Insurance does not cover MRI’S in cosmetic breast augmentation the way it does for breast cancer reconstruction so we have no way to monitor for rupture other than mammogram and ultrasound which are not precise for this diagnosis. Unfortunately this left cosmetic breast augmentation patients with the poor choice of safety versus natural feel, until the advent of the IDEAL IMPLANT, which offers both!”
—Dr. Nadia Blanchet, Richmond, VA
“The IDEAL IMPLANT is less likely to get visible rippling, it has a more natural feel, and it’s going to have that extremely low capsular contracture rate.”
—Dr. Thomas Hubbard, Hubbard Plastic Surgery and Skin Enhancement, Virginia Beach, VA
“I’ve been using the IDEAL implant for about three years, I believe, and my experience has been very, very positive. It’s an implant that’s well presented, the educational materials are good, there are samples that are good. Insertion has been made as straightforward as possible with the tubing is appropriately labeled. It’s really, sort of, a fool proof device in terms of how the surgeon can use it . . . I would say that the IDEAL IMPLANT is an excellent option. My patients are uniformly very pleased with it. They like the feel, they like the look, and I think above all, they really like the peace of mind of knowing that they haven’t done anything that they might be strongly upset about down the road either, by learning that silicone may not be as safe as we think.”
—Dr. David Rapaport, Rapaport Plastic Surgery, Manhattan, NY
“I think those patients are happy and feeling like they’ve made the right choice for themselves because they have this peace of mind that they may not have otherwise had. And at the same time their experience with the way they look and the way they feel so far, their satisfaction has still been very high. So when you get that sort of combination, I think that’s a very powerful tool.”
—Dr. Audrey Klenke, Pinnacle Plastic Surgery, Bluffton (Hilton Head), SC
“As a surgeon, the IDEAL IMPLANT offers some advantages over both saline and silicone. The biggest advantage that it’s useful for women who are worry about having the quote on quote silent rupture with a silicone implant. So ideal implants, like saline implants, if there’s a rupture, it will deflate and you will know it right away. The other thing that’s very nice about the Ideal Implant is that it maintains the shape of the implant like a silicone implant would and it does that will the baffles and the structure that’s inside the implants.”
—Dr. Jonathan Heistein, Fort Worth/Southlake, TX
“It has a very natural look and feel . . . There are a lot of advantages. The knowledge whether you have a leak or not just by looking, less rippling than you would see with other types of saline implants . . . the incidence of capsular contracture is extremely low, lowest among the different types of implants available. I just find that there’s a lot of reasons to have peace of mind when using the IDEAL IMPLANT . . . As a percentage of overall implants, yes, there’s no question that more and more of the higher percentage of implants is IDEAL IMPLANT as time goes on.”
—Dr. Paul Loewenstein, Brookfield, WI