03-18-2014, 02:19 PM
(03-18-2014, 12:51 PM)Tugboatcap Wrote: 0.9% is what the human body is normally, thus the reason most saline solution is also that salinity.Presumably that could be estimated fairly accurately, so there's less chance of a ban for being unpredictable, growing at different rates, tearing stictches etc?
Interesting side note, if an implant is filled with a higher salinity solution, they will slowly expand by themselves with water in the body moving through the semi-permiable membrane (silicone shell) in an attempt to equalize the salinity inside and outside of the implant via osmosis. There is a company that has self expanding implants which fill naturally using this very process, although I don't think they are available in the US yet...
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(03-18-2014, 01:13 PM)Bonecracker Wrote: That sounds very promising. So, in fact, a woman could get saline expander implants, get a 5% saline solution to use for fills and they would also continue to expand on their own?Presumably if it absorbs one way then I assume it would absorb the other way as well. That said I suppose it depends on whether it's an actual a bodily function to equalise it (as the implants themselves obviously don't have bodily functions so couldn't equalise backwards) or if it's just something that happens. I should probably remember that from school, but like many things, I don't.