Breast Implants

(CNN Style) — Liposuction has overtaken breast augmentation as the world’s most popular form of cosmetic surgery amid growing concern about the implants’ links to cancer, according to newly published data from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS).…

Most board-certified plastic surgeons agree that breast implants do not automatically need to be replaced at the 10-year mark, or at any other annual milestone for that matter. But also, that breast implant recipients may choose or need to have…

No picture of plastic surgery around the world would be complete without a look at breast augmentation surgery statistics. Once the industry’s most popular procedure—from 2006, when the FDA’s silicone breast implant ban was lifted, to 2019—the procedure and the…

The number of U.S. women having their breast implants permanently removed increased by 47 percent in 2021. Nearly 365,000 women underwent breast augmentation surgery in 2021, getting breast implants for the first time. Another 219,000 women, who already had breast…

For the second time in four months, a woman has gone viral for revealing that her breast implants had grown moldy. Both women had saline breast implants. Both women attributed ill health conditions to their breast implants. And both women…

Patients with silicone breast implants are being faulted for not following FDA MRI guidelines which 85 percent of them say their surgeon never told them about. From 2006 to 2020, the FDA recommended that women with silicone breast implants (SBIs)…

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