Breast Implant Removal Episodes
If your breast implants are no longer keeping you comfortable and confident, breast implant removal can be a life-changing procedure.
Sept. 17, 2025
Before the Explant: After 21 Years With Breast Implants, I’m Ready to Say Goodbye
After 21 years with implants, Jennifer has reached her limits with the pain, scar tissue, and breasts that stretched far beyond what she ever imagined. What started as 420cc implants have grown from a D cup to triple Ds, lea...
Sept. 2, 2025
How Removing Your Breast Implants Affects Your Mental Health
Breast implants don’t just change your body. They can impact your mind too. For many women, removing implants brings unexpected relief: less anxiety, deeper sleep, clearer thinking, even a sense of liberation they didn’t realize they were missing....
Aug. 27, 2025
“Holistic” Explant Surgery: Buzzword or Reality?
What if lowering your anxiety helps your body heal better? That’s exactly why Dr. Luke Swistun gives every patient his personal cell phone number. Knowing you can reach him anytime keeps worries from spiraling, so you can sta...
Jan. 14, 2025
What Really Happens to Your Breasts After Implant Removal
Here’s the answer to the question every woman considering implant removal surgery asks: “What will my breasts look like after I remove my implants?” Achieving a beautiful shape after saying goodbye to implant volume takes a s...
Aug. 13, 2024
Plastic Surgeon Clears Up Capsulectomy Confusion
The term “en bloc” floats around online in breast implant associated illness circles, but this actually refers to cancer surgery where healthy tissue around a tumor is removed. To update the terminology and clear up any confu...
Aug. 6, 2024
I Broke Up With My Breast Implants: Caroline’s Explant Experience
After 8 years of living with 400cc silicone implants, Caroline started feeling differently about them. Later on, seeing coworkers rave about their explants inspired her to seriously consider removing hers. It wasn't an easy d...
July 16, 2024
Flat is Kind of Cool: Amie’s Breast Implant Removal
Amie had her first breast augmentation with saline implants at age 21 (back in 1998 when Pamela Anderson was the “it girl") and 13 years later switched to silicone. When unexplained symptoms emerged, she wondered if her breas...
April 18, 2023
Happy Wife, Happy Life: A Husband’s Perspective on Breast Explant Surgery
When Candy first started experiencing strange symptoms, her husband Michael thought it was just an aging thing. Even as she met with plastic surgeons doctors to discuss having her breast implants removed, he was supportive bu...
Nov. 15, 2022
Life After Breast Implant Removal: What to Expect
Plastic surgeon Dr. Luke Swistun has helped hundreds of women with breast implant removal and is deeply experienced with breast implant illness patients. In this podcast, we talk about what you might experience immediately af...
Oct. 11, 2022
Patient Janelle: Why I had my breast implants removed after 22 years
Twenty-two years ago at the age of 22, Janelle got her first set of saline breast implants and she was ecstatic. Right on schedule, ten years later she had them replaced with silicone gel. Janelle loved how she looked with br...
Dec. 28, 2021
Meet the Team: Luke Swistun, MD, Plastic Surgeon
San Diego plastic surgeon Dr. Luke Swistun is known for being a thoughtful listener and artistic surgeon. Hear about the surprising 21st century way Dr. Swistun landed his dream job at LJC and his unique path from Poland, to ...
June 29, 2021
Removing Breast Implants: Plastic Surgeon Explains Explant Surgery
As the en bloc capsulectomy procedure for removing breast implants becomes more common, many women have questions about their choices for implant removal or replacement. Plastic surgeon Dr. Luke Swistun takes us inside his un...