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It's not just models and movie stars who have breast implants. Nearly 300,000 "ordinary" w... Dallas doctor improves implant sa
Those are concerns also shared by Dallas plastic surgeon Dr. William Adams. He says regardless of whether women choose saline or silicone implants, about one in 10 patients will have some sort of complication.
In the last few years, Dr. Adams has developed and tested a triple-antibiotic liquid. It kills the bacteria responsible for hardening and breaking down breast implants.
Dr. Adams' research, recently published in a top journal for plastic surgeons, shows it cuts complications from one in 10 women to less than two percent.
Dr. Adams hopes the antibiotic solution could even add to the life of an implant. Right now, they only last about a decade before a replacement is necessary.
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