Comment on What somebody with cosmetic plastic surgery gets injured, does the plastic "spill out" or get seen?
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 1 week ago
FWIW, and I’m only mentioning this because of the phrasing of the question, plastic surgery isn’t named after ‘plastic’ (the noun), but for ‘plastic’ (the verb). Plastic surgery was used as a term decades before plastic (the noun) was even invented!
But anyway, to answer your question, people tend not to use silicone in implants so much nowadays, preferring saline instead (as another person said). The main reason is that it is much less problematic if there is a rupture.
Leaking silicone is not immediately dangerous, but does need to be removed - which is difficult as it can squidge about and under other tissues, causing mischief as it goes. Saline, by comparison, will just get absorbed by the body, usually harmlessly.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Ah okay that makes much more sense. Interesting, I did not know that!
agentTeiko@piefed.social 1 week ago
Also it can also be plastic surgery by using metel. Have a buddy with a titanium plate in his forehead to build it back his skull after shrapnel blew out his eye socket. I was so impressed by their work. They saved his eye somewhat and you can barely tell he had work done other than it tans weird.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Ok that’s pretty cool :0