After days of discussion, health officials with the FDA’s Center for Disease have decided silicone implants are safe and continued their approval for augmentation in women over the age of 22 and for reconstruction in women of any age. While the  FDA still recommends that MRI’s should be done three years after getting the implants, and then every two years it is possible that these guidelines that help detect implant rupture will be relaxed. The FDA qualified the use of  silicone implants with the caution that problems with these type of breast implants include hardening of the area around the implant, rupturing, infection, and asymmetry which may require re-operation. 

The benefit of saline implants are its sterile water, the same fluid you use to clean your contact lenses. If an implant ruptures, there are no health consequences, because the body harmlessly absorbs saline.  Make sure to have an a good open line of communication with your surgeon when considering breast implants and discuss risks and benefits of implant selection.