Breast implant, use of an associated pouch, and method for determination of a breast implant

• US 20070198085A1
• Filed: 10/28/2004
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fahd Benslimane
• Original Assignee: Fahd Benslimane
• Inventors: Benslimane, Fahd
• Granted Patent: US 7,520,896 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 623/8
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0095 Packages or dispensers for prostheses or other implants for intraocular lenses A61F2/1691; for dental surgery A61C19/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/12 Mammary prostheses and implants

Abstract

The breast implant is tailor-made for a patient and comprises an envelope, which is made in particular of silicone elastomer and inside which a filler product 15 is arranged, and also a securing element 3 disposed on the envelope 2 and intended to be connected to a support element 5, said support element 5 being fixed substantially in the area of the axilla or on the greater pectoral muscle of the patient.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. Breast implant tailor-made for a patient and comprising an envelope which is made in particular of silicone elastomer and inside which a filler product is arranged, wherein a posterior portion of the envelope is substantially planar and comprises a main surface which is rounded and substantially circular and continued at an upper end by an end surface of substantially ellipsoid shape, the end surface having a dimension substantially between 20 and 30% of the diameter of the end surface in the area of an axis of symmetry of the breast implant.

27. Use of a breast implant pouch comprising a first package comprising the breast implant and mounted inside a second package, characterized in that the second package of the pouch, being of the same shape as the breast implant, is placed against a patient'"'"'s thorax, centering it on the nipple of the patient'"'"'s breast, and the contour of said implant is drawn in order to plot the size of the seat to be created for introducing said implant into the patient'"'"'s thorax.

28. Method for determination and angular orientation of a breast implant as a function of a patient'"'"'s morphology, comprising steps during which:

the maximum surface of implantation of the breast implant is evaluated on the basis of a first reference distance defined by the spacing between the inframammary fold and a substantially horizontal line passing through the axillae of said patient, and on the basis of a second reference distance defined by the width of the existing breast, and

the shape of the breast implant is chosen as a function of the geometry of the surface thus obtained.