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If your saline-filled breast implant ruptures, you or your doctor will be able to tell. When saline-filled breast implants rupture, they deflate and the saline solution leaks into your body immediately or over a period of days. You will notice that your implant loses its original size or shape. If your silicone gel-filled breast implant [...]

We do not know all of the causes of breast implant rupture. We do know that breast implants can rupture from: damage during implantation or during other surgical procedures folding or wrinkling of the implant shell trauma or other excessive force to the chest compression of the breast during mammography. Source: http://www.fda.gov/