Implant Improvements

[andrat2000]

So there is a scientific group that since long (2007/2008) tries to launch a prototyping for breast expander implants with a new shell material:
http://gozips.uakron.edu/~jpuskas/projec...hesis.html

The shell material is polyisobutylene (PIB) which is a biorubber. It is the transparent soft form called TPE that they want to use. The advantage would be it is more elastic, has at maximum an higher tenlile break point, is less permeable than the usual silicone expander shells. And due to the polymersization which is additive-free crosslinking, it has no or very much reduced residuals of other chemicals. There are even a few more features of that material.

The group is still active. In 2013 they had a last update.

Here are a few more links:
http://plasticsurgery101.blogspot.de/200...plant.html
http://www.abcps.com/news/biorubber-brea...w-promise/
http://www.abcps.com/news/breast-implant...s-promise/
http://www.plasticstoday.com/articles/pr...-081420134
http://www.livescience.com/25593-safer-b...f-bts.html
http://www.plasmetic.com/breast/breast-i...licon.html
http://www.emdt.co.uk/article/researcher...-knowledge