A woman whose ruptured breast implants were filled with industrial-grade silicone experienced severe breast pain and autoimmune diseases, says the surgeon who successfully removed them while preventing their toxic content from seeping into her body. Explant surgeon Joshua Lampert, MD,…
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Whalesca Castillo, 49, of the Bronx, will spend four to eight years in prison over the illegal administration and deadly injection of silicone into a woman’s buttocks and thighs. Castillo pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter in December. On Thurs.,…
It’s been a virtual ticket to virality and media coverage. Plastic surgeons have dropped, driven over, blended, and even bitten breast implants in creative and entertaining—but ultimately inaccurate—tests of the implant’s strength. Ensuing print coverage has suggested that some of…
Mentor Worldwide LLC announced early Thursday, January 13, that the U.S. FDA has approved its MemoryGel BOOST Breast Implant for breast augmentation in women at least 22 years old, and for women of all ages undergoing breast reconstruction. The new…
Just over 10½ percent of 584 women with current-issue silicone gel breast implants who participated in a recent study were found to have a silent rupture which they were unaware of. The study, financially supported by Ideal Implant Incorporated, was…
Newport Beach board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Jae Chun took to Instagram on Friday, July 24, to call out the contrast between the “marketing propaganda” and reality of cohesive gel, form-stable, silicone Gummy Bear breast implants. One image, evidently used in…