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Breast Health· 3 min read

Why the Body Wraps Every Implant in a Capsule

Scar tissue forms around every breast implant as a normal part of healing — here’s what that capsule does, and the point at which a routine response can turn into a problem.

Yoondo HuhJul 16, 2026

Breast Health· 2 min read

Capsular Contracture: When the Body’s Scar Shell Tightens

Every implant is wrapped in scar tissue — here is what happens when that capsule contracts, and how surgeons decide between watching and revising.

Yoondo HuhJul 6, 2026

Breast Health· 2 min read

Vacuum-Assisted Excision: Removing Benign Lumps Without Open Surgery

A vacuum-assisted device can remove many benign breast lumps through a skin opening a few millimeters wide — here is how the procedure works and where its limits lie.

Yoondo HuhJul 3, 2026

Breast Health· 3 min read

BIA-ALCL: What Is Known, and What Monitoring Means

A rare condition linked mainly to certain implant surfaces has raised understandable questions — here’s a calm look at what is known and how doctors approach monitoring.

Yoondo HuhJun 23, 2026

Breast Health· 2 min read

Immediate or Delayed: Timing Choices in Breast Reconstruction

Reconstruction can begin on the operating table with mastectomy or months to years later — the timing is a medical decision as much as a personal one.

Yoondo HuhJun 11, 2026

Breast Health· 3 min read

Explant Choices: Remove, Replace, or Remove and Lift

Deciding to take breast implants out opens a second question — whether to remove them only, exchange them, or remove them and lift the breast — and each path asks something different of the tissue.

Yoondo HuhJun 5, 2026

Breast Health· 3 min read

Silent Rupture: Why an Implant Can Fail Without Telling You

Cohesive silicone implants can rupture without symptoms — imaging is how these failures are found, and how replacement decisions get made.

Yoondo HuhJun 1, 2026

Breast Health· 2 min read

Your Own Tissue or an Implant: How Flap Reconstruction Differs

Flap reconstruction rebuilds a breast from the patient’s own skin and fat — a longer operation with a different set of trade-offs from an implant.

Yoondo HuhMay 21, 2026

Breast Health· 2 min read

Timing a Revision: Why Surgeons Often Wait

After a breast surgery that didn’t turn out as hoped, the instinct is to fix it quickly — yet surgeons often counsel waiting, because tissue that is still healing tells an unreliable story.

Yoondo HuhMay 13, 2026

Breast Health· 2 min read

The Expander Stage: What Tissue Expansion Feels Like, Visit by Visit

Between mastectomy and a final implant often comes a months-long middle chapter — regular saline fills that stretch skin and muscle a little at a time.

Yoondo HuhApr 23, 2026

Breast Health· 3 min read

Fat Grafting in Revision: Softening the Edges of an Implant

When an implant’s edges show or ripple through thin tissue, transferring a patient’s own fat over the top can soften the contour — a supporting move in revision rather than a replacement for it.

Yoondo HuhApr 16, 2026

Breast Health· 3 min read

Rebuilding After Mastectomy: Implant or Your Own Tissue?

Breast reconstruction after cancer surgery follows two broad paths — implant-based and autologous — each with its own timeline, trade-offs and recovery.

Yoondo HuhApr 14, 2026

Breast Health· 3 min read

Implant Registries and Warranties: Why Your Device Records Matter

Every breast implant has a serial number, a registry entry and a manufacturer program behind it — paperwork that matters most years after surgery.

Yoondo HuhMar 26, 2026

Breast Health· 3 min read

Accessory Breast Tissue: What It Is and How It’s Treated

A soft bulge near the armpit is often not fat but accessory breast tissue — a common developmental leftover — and understanding it helps explain the options for smoothing it away.

Ijun KimMar 18, 2026

Breast Health· 3 min read

Rippling, Malposition, Bottoming Out: Why Revisions Happen

Not every implant problem is a rupture — visible wrinkling and implants that drift out of position are among the most common reasons revision surgery is discussed.

Yoondo HuhMar 10, 2026

Breast Health· 2 min read

Oncoplastic Care: How Breast and Plastic Surgeons Share One Operation

In oncoplastic surgery, a breast surgeon and a plastic surgeon plan one operation together — cancer control first, shape considered from the start.

Yumi JangMar 4, 2026

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