Table 2.

Characteristics of deflation and patient preference for breast implant replacement

	Group 1 (16 years)	Group 2 (8 years)
Number of deflations	191	33
Side of deflation
Left	53% (n =101)	42% (n =14)
Right	47% (n = 90)	58% (n =19)
Replacement tendency
Both	89% (n =170)	70% (n = 23)
Only deflated	11% (n = 21)	30% (n = 10)
Desired change in size
Same	57% (n =109)	49% (n =16)
Smaller	9% (n =17)	9% (n = 3)
Bigger	34% (n =65)	42% (n =14)
Breast width diameter	17.76 cm avg.	16.4 cm avg.
Size of deflated implant	350–500 cc (432 avg.)	225–700 cc (414 avg.)
Size of implant with fold failure	432 cc avg.	373 cc avg.