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 Continuous longing
of women to attract men is a natural desire. Attractive appearance is a major woman's
weapon to conquer the heart of a man, and the leading role in shaping of female
beauty, as the stronger and the fair sexes think, belong to the shapely breasts.
Everyone has his or her own picture of beautiful breasts: some prefer shapely
chest outstanding in every respect, others like it petite, but there is a general
accord that beautiful breasts can not be sagging.
There are
women severely lacking self-esteem and ready to make any sacrifices to have a
shapely bust. Fortunately, owing to the development of medical technology and
science, these sacrifices are not great. Breast implants are used in the breast
augmentation procedure for a fuller and enhanced beauty of the feminine
breasts. The implants are used to fix the flaws of sagging breasts and to correct
the shape of the breasts. The breast implants - especially silicone-gel-filled
ones - which are used in the breast augmentation procedures have always
attracted fair share of media attention. They have faced both positive and
negative publicities from time to time. Silicone implants placed in the area of
mammal glands have become world-known and widely used in the practice of
aesthetic surgery. This type of implants is an element of modern correction method
compared to usual silicon pumping into the mammal gland, as it is an insular
sheath containing the filler which allows silicon (or other filling agent) to firmly
and reliably keep the shape of the breast. At the same time, free silicon may effuse
and as a result the mammal gland may bulge.
By the way,
it may seem funny but the first patient to undergo silicon implantation was a
dog. The intervention was arranged by the dog's owner, American surgeon T. Cronin.
He was the first person who seriously believed in the idea of semi-liquid
implantation. It happened almost fifty years ago and since that time many
hundred thousand patients has undergone the surgery.
So, what are
the main properties of the modern silicone implants? First, they differ in the
filling method. Some of them are filled with the proper agent in advance and
then sealed. Others are surgically placed into the mammal gland and afterwards
are filled in through the special inlets. Second, the implants differ in their
shape. Before the surgery, doctor selects a proper shape of the implant
individually for every woman taking into consideration the peculiarities of the
breast so that her breasts look naturally. Finally, the implants differ in their
price; usually they cost from $3000 up to $4000. However, the cheap implants are
hardly recommended. And the matter is not to make the patient pay more. The majority
of aesthetic surgery clinics value their reputation; experts know that a cheap
implant can not guarantee the expected results and absence of complications.
Nonetheless, even the most expensive silicone implants do not relieve a woman
from the only visible flaw - the scar which reveals the surgery. In fact, it is
often concealed under the breast or in the underarm area.
Then, what are
the possible complications of breast augmentation surgery? Many experts are
sure that the contact of the implant's cover with the surrounding tissues is
practically harmless, but the filling material - silicon - may lead to the
development of various immunoreactive conditions. Silicon is a genetically foreign
substance, and the body tries to reject it. Such conditions may develop due to
the rupture of the implant's cover. Consequently, pain, redness and tissue
swelling appear, and the breast shape changes. Some professionals suspect silicon
to have cancer-inducing properties, the ability to cause malignancies. That is why
the manufacturers of silicone implants have been ‘kept on short rations' in the
80-s of the last century: thousands of patients went to the court, and the breast
augmentation procedures using silicone implants were forbidden. Today, there is
a belief among the experts that the danger of silicon side-effects is fabulously
exaggerated, still there are countries where such a surgery is a taboo, so, the
doctors recommend to use the two well-tried and health safe filling materials:
a special silicone gel and a saline solution.
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