Improving Outcomes in Breast Augmentation

This study has been the culmination of research that Dr. Adams has done since 1996. The original publications were in 2000 and 2001 and then in Fall/ Winter of 2005 the clinical study confirming advances in breast augmentation and breast implants for aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery. Adams, Rios, Smith, Plast Reconstr Surg., January 2006.

Capsular contracture remains the most common implant related complication in breast augmentation and breast lift procedures involving breast implants. Dr. William P. Adams, Jr, MD is publishing a landmark study in the January 2006 issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the premier Plastic Surgery journal in the specialty worldwide. “This study culminates the past 8 years of work we have done on capsular contracture and how we can make breast augmentation and breast implant procedures safer and better for patients” says Dr. Adams the Dallas based breast specialist. Dr. Adams and his colleagues have previously published recommendations to minimize capsular contracture using defined combinations of antibiotic solutions and refined techniques. “These previous studies were in vitro (test tube) studies and the November publication reviews the 6 year clinical results in patients using these techniques,” says. Adams, “The results demonstrate that the patients in this study had a 4-5 fold lower capsular contracture rate than the best data compiled for FDA breast implant clinical trials.”

The benefits to potential patients for both aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery are significant. The study also demonstrated that in addition to the reduction in capsular contracture the overall patient re-operation rates were 2.8% compared to 15-20% seen in PMA breast implant clinical trials over the past 2 decades. “Using these advances in breast implant patients can have better and safer results including reduced 

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