Solid reasoning!
It’s a good way to experiment before they make a decent payment chip that won’t need to be replaced constantly.
Yes. And No. (helpful response, eh?)
Technically speaking, the xSeries will also have flesh that’s constricted around the implant. And some people do call that a pocket.
Although when we’re talking in more body-mod lingo, a capsule/sphear/pill shaped implant won’t have a pocket. It will be “encapsulated” by your body, without the need for a pocket to form…
Depending on how you heal and the angle and superficiality you have your implant, it will probably stay where it was placed… or it can migrate. Depends a lot on the person.
Some capsular implants come coated in Praline, which is… think of a porous goo that will harden up and “hook up” to the flesh around and hold the implant in place.
That is common practice in some manufacturers (although I dislike praline. that sh!t is flaky af), exactly because it’s common for a pill shape to migrate. Most likely without actually causing much damage.
Alas I derail…
The thing with a Flex implant is that what you’re trying to do is literally build a skin “pocket”, as you would on a pair of trousers:
You separate the skin from the muscle layer, place the flex implant there, and then let it heal. In healing, all the area around the implant will “fuse back” (as if you had stitched a delimitation), and the area above where the implant is will remain separated from the area bellow it.
If there is nothing like praline on the implant… if you cut the pocket open and pull the implant it will just slide out. you could then even probe the hole and feel it’s internal “walls” (but please, don’t try that)… And then slide another same-sized implant inside without any problems.
It’s like… you now have a “pocket” inside you.
but then… if you do something that rips these internal walls, you will invite lots of bodily fluids into that space, then your body finds it all strange, and a series of chain reactions begin, bloating your hand, etc…
Not the end of the world. most cases would probably drain naturally over time and the wall would be healed back… but a lot can happen there.
In short… when someone from bodymod background mentions a “pocket” implant, they are probably thinking of making a literal pocket first, and then inserting something into that pocket and stitching it closed.
Meanwhile an xSeries would not require you to make a pocket first. You can just inject it strauight away, and then your body will encapsulate it in place.
Hope this wasn’t too convoluted and made some sense…