Did Christina Lugner have breast implants? Yes since 2015 — and she explains the exchange

Her reasoning is about technology and prevention rather than size: “Meine sind aus dem Jahr 2015, und da sollte man schon wieder auf eine neue Technologie umsteigen” — hers are from 2015, and it is time to move to a newer technology. Implants, she said, should be exchanged “nach gewissen Abständen einfach aufgrund der neuen Technologien” — at certain intervals, on the basis of the newer technologies — so that problems can be prevented in advance rather than repaired. And while she is under anaesthesia anyway, she plans to combine the procedures: “wenn ich jetzt schon in Vollnarkose bin, machen wir eben gleich die Augen-Lider und auch ein Microneedling mit Blutplasma” — eyelid surgery and a plasma microneedling in the same session.

That is what this article relies on: her quoted words in the report. Everything below describes breast implant surgery in general, not her treatment.

Implants are not lifetime devices: guidelines generally expect a review after 10 to 15 years, and newer generations bring improvements in gel stability and safety monitoring. Planning an exchange before something goes wrong, rather than after, is the proactive version of implant care.

Her second point is the combined session. Adding eyelid surgery and a skin treatment to the same anaesthesia spares a second operation, a second recovery and a second set of costs — a practical logic surgeons apply routinely, provided the total operation stays within safe limits. And her insistence that this particular exchange changes nothing about size is a useful reminder: implant surgery is not always about volume. Sometimes it is simply maintenance.

An implant exchange replaces older implants with a new generation — same size or a different one — and is often combined, as Lugner plans, with other procedures in the same session.

The plan is made at the consultation after examining the existing implants — not from a celebrity story.

• Know your implants: type, size and year of placement; this defines the exchange plan.
• Bring your medical history, including previous operations and medicines; the surgeon decides which tests are needed.
• Consider combined sessions with the surgeon: one anaesthesia, one recovery — if the total operation stays safe.

Compression garments are worn for 4–6 weeks; swimming and fitness usually return then, strength training after about three months. Swelling settles in about a month, and full recovery takes 3–6 months. The timeline below shows the usual stages.

The price is $4,700 and covers result modelling, anaesthesia, the inpatient stay with meals, dressings and check-ups for a full year. More details are on the breast augmentation page and the page for patients from Vienna.

To be clear: City Medical Centre has no connection with Christina Lugner or her treatment. Her story is quoted here only because she chose to speak about her implants openly.