breast surgery

Author: Helen Hecker The non-cosmetic use of breast implants is for breast reconstruction, sex reassignment surgery, and for abnormalities, usually congenital, that affect the shape and size of the breast. In breast plastic surgery, breast implants are usually used either for cosmetic reasons or to reconstruct the breast such as after a mastectomy, to correct genetic deformities or as part of male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. A bit of trivia: breast implants have been known since 1895 when they were first used to augment the size or shape of a woman's breasts. The earliest known breast implant was attempted by a Dr. Czerny, using a woman's own fatty tissue from a lipoma (a fatty tumor) on her back. Saline-filled breast implants were first manufactured in France in 1964 and were introduced by Arion with the goal of being surgically placed using smaller incisions than they had been using. In the mid 1980s, advances in manufacturing principles brought about elastomer-co

Author: Helen Hecker The non-cosmetic clinical indications for the use of breast implants are for breast reconstruction, sex reassignment surgery, and for abnormalities, usually congenital, that affect the shape and size of the breast. Non-clinical indications, which are the most common reason women get breast implants, are considered cosmetic and are not covered by any health insurers. And of all the breast plastic surgery procedures performed in 2006 in the United States, 329,000 were for breast augmentations. Back in 1962 the first woman was implanted with silicone implants. There are two primary types of breast implants: saline-filled and silicone-gel-filled implants Doctors Thomas Cronin and Frank Gerow, two Houston, Texas, plastic surgeons, developed the first silicone breast prosthesis with the Dow Corning Corporation in back in 1961. Current saline implant devices are manufactured with thicker, room temperature vulcanized shells. There have been several types of brea