Originally posted by markreyes at 17-2-2010 12:10
You've been reading too many sources on the Internet =p
Rate of capsular contraction is nowhere near 50% with a properly done procedure. You are looking closer to 5-7% incidence, but one thing to no ...
Yo Bubba,
I suppose if you want to throw in that qualifier of "with a properly done procedure" you might be right, but you'd have no way of proving it. I wouldn't ask the boobie surgeon next to you for numbers, because so few of them are rigorous in their analysis of their own results. Always certain, often wrong, is my impression of the typical surgeon ego
. To determine incidence you have to look at the population of all boob implants.
Here's a research cite that sez 10-70% of all grades of CC.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/8k32n88175112884/
Here's one that sez 29% for Grade III and above:
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0007122689900520
Here's a bunch of Canucks that say 15-45%
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2691025/
Anyway, the point being that it's a really wide range of outcomes, and the range shouldn't be that wide in any medical procedure UNLESS it's explainable by grading (10% are Grade IV, 50% are Grade I or higher, etc.).
As to the fat/stem cell thingy; it works (theoretically) because if you put the stem cells in the middle of fat cells they turn into fat cells but with their own blood flow. Your guys are right that the fat transfer alone won't work (it's been tried and it always gets reabsorbed by the body because of lack ofcirculation), however the presumption is that the stem cells will make these results permanent. I'm sceptical too, so don't read this as a defense of thetechnique, just a report of the technique.
Boobies Uber Alles!