Contributing Writer · Editorial staff
Rohan Chatterton
Tracks new techniques and devices in breast augmentation and separates genuine advances from marketing.
9 stories by Rohan Chatterton
Myth Check · 5 min · Rohan Chatterton
Do Breast Implants Really Need Replacing Every 10 Years? A Myth Check
The ten year replacement rule is one of the most repeated claims in breast augmentation. Here is where it came from, what device data actually shows, and when revision surgery is genuinely indicated.
August 9, 2026
Field Notes · 8 min · Rohan Chatterton
Animation deformity: the flex test nobody performs before surgery
If your implant sits under the pectoralis muscle, contracting that muscle moves it. Almost every consultation covers this in one sentence, and almost no patient is ever shown what it looks like on their own body before they consent to it.
July 29, 2026
Field Notes · 6 min · Rohan Chatterton
Implant Rippling: the Pinch Test That Predicts It and What Actually Reduces It
Rippling is not a manufacturing defect and not usually a surgical error. It is a coverage problem, and the amount of coverage you have is a number your surgeon measures with two fingers in the first five minutes of a consult.
July 26, 2026
Field Notes · 6 min · Rohan Chatterton
The ten-year rule and other breast implant myths, checked against the evidence
Implants do not expire on a schedule, airport scanners do not burst them, and gummy bear devices are not indestructible. Six persistent claims, held up against what the published literature and the regulators actually say.
July 7, 2026
Field Notes · 5 min · Rohan Chatterton
What actually happens on breast augmentation surgery day, hour by hour
The procedure itself takes about an hour. The day around it is a choreography of checks, markings, anesthesia, and recovery protocols that patients rarely see described plainly. Here is the full sequence.
July 4, 2026
Field Notes · 5 min · Rohan Chatterton
Skin care, scars, and the augmentation result
Healthy skin supports the shape and heals the incisions.
April 17, 2026
Field Notes · 5 min · Rohan Chatterton
Recovering well from breast augmentation surgery
Protecting the result in the critical early weeks.
March 30, 2026
Field Notes · 5 min · Rohan Chatterton
Capsular contracture: the most common implant complication
Why scar tissue can harden, and how it is prevented and treated.
March 1, 2026
Field Notes · 6 min · Rohan Chatterton
Saline vs. silicone implants: the core difference
The two main implant types feel different and fail differently.
September 28, 2025