The Most Exciting Plastic Surgery Innovation in Years – Motiva Breast Implant

What’s the newest and most exciting innovation in my surgical practice in years?

As a plastic surgeon who performs a lot of breast implant surgery, the bane of my existence is capsular contracture – excess scar tissue that can occur around implants. All breast implants are surrounded by a scar tissue pocket. In the vast majority of cases- about 95-98% of them – the scar tissue is thin and doesn’t impact how the result feels afterwards.

But in about 2-5% of cases (up to 10% in some studies), the scar tissue can thicken and harden around the implant, making it look and feel unnaturally firm. This is called a capsular contracture, and if it occurs must be treated surgically.

In my practice I do everything I can to prevent this from happening to my patients, including using an implant insertion funnel, changing gloves, antibiotic rinses, and more. But no matter what I do, I can’t lower the rate of this complication from happening to less than about 2%.

Until now.

Enter the new Motiva breast implant. This implant is the newest, most advanced implant available today. It has a Smooth Silk surface, which studies show reduces the risk of capsular contracture to 0.5%. This is at least four times lower than what we have seen with the traditional smooth silicone and saline implants.

The Motiva implants were FDA approved in late 2024, but have been used around the world for 15 years, with over 4 million Motiva implants placed worldwide. I’ve been using them in my practice for the past 4 months, and so far the results have been great.

Although the jury is still out on whether this implant has a lower rupture rate or risk of Breast Implant Illness (BII), so far my patients have been very happy with them. I’ll keep you up-to-date with new findings!