There’s quite a difference between different types of implants. The most common one we’ve had in this country, for many years, has been a silicone implant. Silicone is a gooey, plastic, clear liquid and the silicone implant is quite squidgy. It has the sort of feel of a natural breast. In the 80’s there was a big issue with the fear that silicone was unsafe and in America they got very nervous about using silicone implants, and they stopped using them, and moved to using saline implants. A saline implant is essentially a clear shell, a bit like a balloon, filled with salt water. So it feels like a bag full of water, it doesn’t have a squidgy texture to it at all, and actually the implant is put in through a smaller hole, and then is pumped once it’s in place.
