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Breast augmentation: teaching our patients how compression can help prevent capsular contracture
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|July 13, 2000
Abstract:
If we insert a foreign body into a human being, physiologically, we get a capsular contracture because a periprosthetic scar contracts to give the implant a spherical shape, the smallest surface area for a given volume. To antagonize this contracture, one must stretch the periprosthetic scar and this can be accomplished with compression.

