If you are considering breast surgery, for either reconstructive or augmentative reasons, you may have questions about breast implants and the safety of these medical devices. Again, it is important that you seek a certified plastic surgeon and discuss your options and expectations in detail, so that you can make an informed decision.
All breast implants are made of a round or shaped silicone elastomer (rubber-like) outer shell. Breast implants can be either saline filled or silicone gel-filled.
Saline breast implants have a self sealing valve that is used to fill the implant with sterile saline solution (salt water) at the time of surgery.
Silicone implants are pre-filled with a cohesive silicone gel. Silicone is derived from silicon, an element that in nature combines with oxygen to form silica. Beach sand, crystals, and quartz are silica; in fact, silica is the most common substance on earth.
In addition to silicone gel-filled breast implants, silicone is used safely in the body in many medical devices and products, including pacemakers, replacement heart valves, artificial joints and baby pacifiers.
In the past, there has been some controversy surrounding the use of gel-filled silicone breast implants, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the medical devices in November 2006. Silicone gel-filled breast implants are among the most studied FDA approved devices in existence, with hundreds of peer-reviewed and published reports, including robust epidemiological studies supporting their safe use.
Age requirements for breast augmentation surgery are put in place because young women's breasts continue to develop through their late teens and early 20s and because there is a concern that young women may not be mature enough to make an informed decision about the potential risks of such surgery. For more detailed information about breast implants.
To meet each woman's individual needs, breast implants come in a variety of shapes, sizes (volume), textures and projection profile combinations. This vast array of options, combined with your body type, physical characteristics and goals for surgery, helps you and your surgeon arrive at a decision about implant size and placement that is right for you specifically.
Prior to surgery, it is important to candidly discuss your expectations with your plastic surgeon. Your certified plastic surgeon is your most valuable resource to help you achieve realistic expectations and to make your surgical experience a pleasant and safe one with the results you desire.
You should trust his or her experience and expertise, and don't hesitate to seek a second opinion or ask to speak with other women who have undergone breast augmentation.
Recent scientific innovations and the November 2006 FDA approval of silicone gel-filled breast implants allow women in the United States to have the same options for breast aesthetic and breast reconstructive surgery that women in more than 60 countries have had for the last 25 years.
Silicone as a substance in itself has a proven safety record, having been used safely in the body in many medical devices and products, including pacemakers, heart valves, artificial joints and baby pacifiers. You should discuss your options with your plastic surgeon to determine which implant options will work best with your own body and meet your goals for surgery.
Author Resource:-
Dave Stringham, the President of LookingYourBest.com writes about plastic surgery in Irving, California, and plastic surgery procedures like irving silicone breast implants, laser hair removal, liposuction, facial rejuvenation, nose job, tummy tuck, and ear pinning.
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