Breast Augmentation: Teaching Our Patients How Compression Can Help Prevent Capsular Contracture

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.