Spectrum™ Adjustable Saline Breast Implants

	Smooth Round Spectrum® Style 1400 Combines the popular rounded style breast implant with an added ability to make adjustments to the breast size after surgery. The implant shell is a smooth surface.
	Siltex® Round Spectrum® Style 2400 The popular rounded style breast implant with the ability to make adjustments to the breast size after surgery. In this style the implant shell is a textured surface.
	Siltex® Contour Profile® Spectrum® Style 2500 The advantages of Spectrum® postoperative adjustability, with a teardrop shape that more closely parallels the outline of a mature breast. This breast implant style features a textured shell surface.

Spectra® Adjustable Breast Implants For Asymmetry

Mentor has developed their unique Spectra® range to address the problem of moderate asymmetry. Their round implant is designed on the principle of a bag-within-a-bag, whereby an outer textured silicone casing holds an adjustable inner chamber which is filled with a saline solution via a self-sealing valve system and tubing. This enables the surgeon to alter the volume of each implant individually during the operation until the desired level of symmetry is obtained, at which point the tubing is removed.

This system differs from a traditional single shell saline implant as the outer silicone casing comes in a variety of densities with a differing size inner vessel for saline inclusion. This gives the implants more of the natural breast mimicking qualities of cohesive silicone gel implants but with the added adjustability created by the addition of saline within to correct any asymmetries.

Smooth Round Spectra™ Adjustable Gel Implant	Siltex® Round Spectra™ Adjustable Gel Implant

Silicone Breast Implants

All of Mentor’s silicone gel implants are made from an outer silicone shell and an inner cohesive silicone gel filling (know as their proprietary MemoryGel™), which means that the gel filler acts as a solid, rather than a liquid, and cannot leak, whilst still retaining a natural feel that is said to better resemble actual breast tissue. Mentor produces a wide selection of consistencies to its MemoryGel™ from soft (Cohesive I™) to firm (Cohesive III™).

This advancement in silicone technology has yet further increased the safety rating of silicone implants, compared to earlier more liquid developments.

A Mentor Cohesive Silicone Gel Implant Cut Open

In America, such cohesive silicone gel implants have been nicknamed ‘gummy bear’ implants due to the comparison of the consistency of the implant, if you were to cut one in half, with that of the children’s jelly sweets.

Silicone Round Breast Implants

Smooth Round Ultra High Profile Provides the narrowest base and highest projection with Mentor’s Memory Gel™ cohesive silicone gel (available in Cohesive I).

Smooth Round High Profile Provides a narrow base and high projection with Mentor’s Memory Gel™ cohesive silicone gel (available in Cohesive I).         Smooth Round Moderate Plus Profile Provides a moderate base and high profile with Mentor’s Memory Gel™ cohesive silicone gel (available in Cohesive I).       Smooth Round Moderate Profile   Provides the widest base and low profile with Mentor’s Memory Gel™ cohesive silicone gel (available in Cohesive I).

Siltex® Round Ultra High Profile   Provides the narrowest base and highest projection with Mentor’s Memory Gel™ cohesive silicone gel (available in Cohesive I) and Siltex® textured surface.

Siltex® Round High Profile Provides a narrow base and high projection with Mentor’s Memory Gel™ cohesive silicone gel (available in Cohesive I & II) and Siltex® textured surface.   Siltex® Round Moderate Plus Profile Provides a moderate base and high profile with Mentor’s Memory Gel™ cohesive silicone gel (available in Cohesive I & II) and Siltex® textured surface.     Siltex® Round Moderate Profile   Provides the widest base and low profile with Mentor’s Memory Gel™ cohesive silicone gel (available in Cohesive I & II) and Siltex® textured surface.

 

Silicone Contoured Breast Implants

 (Contour Profile Gel® (CPG) / 300 Series Breast Implants)

 

This range of contoured silicone implants offers three different heights to match every body type: low, medium and tall and three different projections: moderate, moderate plus and high. All include Mentor’s Memory Gel™ cohesive silicone gel at Cohesive III and Siltex® textured surface. Examples from the range are shown below.

 

	CPG™ 321 Cohesive III – Medium Height – Moderate Profile Round footprint Excellent choice for most augmentations.
	CPG™ 322 Cohesive III – Medium Height – Moderate Profile Round footprint For augmentation when more projection is desired.
	CPG™ 323 Cohesive III – Medium Height – High Profile Round footprint Highest projection available. Ideal for reconstruction.
	CPG™ 332 Cohesive III – Tall Height – Moderate Plus Profile Oval footprint in height for narrow-chested patients.
	CPG™ 312 Cohesive III – Low Height – Moderate Plus Profile Oval footprint in width for wide-chested patients.

Your surgeon will be able to discuss with you the best type, style and size of implant for your body shape and the augmentation that you would like to achieve.