THE HIDDEN RISK OF BREAST IMPLANTS YET UNKNOWN TO MOST WOMEN!
If you've ever wished you had fuller, shapelier breasts, you're not alone.
There are many reasons besides they want to get more attention from men and some of the reasons are listed below:
* Some women are even mistaken for men because they have such boyish figures!
* since many smaller chested women wear padded bras to make them look a bit larger, some might worry or nervous about what guys will think of them, the first time if they see them completely naked.p>
* For women with very small chests, looking in the mirror (especially naked) can make them feel like they are less than a woman.
* Many styles of shirts and dresses that are made for women with at least a little bit of cleavage, some women can't wear as they don't fit around their chests well.
According to Diana Zuckerman, PhD, clearly highlighted that, more women in United States are getting breast implants than ever before and the statistics are listed as below:In 2000, a total of 203,310 women underwent breast implant surgery for augmentation
In 2005, more than 360,000 women and teenagers underwent breast surgery or breast augmentation to have their breasts enlarged with silicone or saline implants
82,975 women underwent breast implant surgery for reconstruction after mastectomy in 1999.
Experts estimate that about 46,000 breast cancer patients had implant surgery after mastectomy.
The number of breast augmentations of women and teenagers has more than quadrupled since 1997, when 101,176 women received implants.
The dramatic increase in breast implant surgery does not necessarily reflect a similarly dramatic increase in the number of women with breast implants, however.
More than 50,000 implant removal procedures were also reported in 2004.
Given these statistics, it is not surprising that in spite of the increasing number of women with breast implants, debate continues to swirl about their safety. Many women are justifiably confused by the conflicting information they hear.
The following are some of the facts about what is known and not known about the risks of breast implants.
1) Surgical Risks Are Not A One Time Risk.
Surgical risks are highest immediately around the time of surgery, but complications can require additional surgery later when there is a need to remove and possibly replace broken or damaged implants with new ones, which will have similar risks to the initial surgery.Saline implants are removed because they quickly deflate, causing the breasts to shrink within a day or two. The saline solution, which leaks into the body from a hole in the implant shell or a faulty valve, is harmless and can be easily absorbed by the body.
Silicone gel implants require removal because the silicone will eventually leak out and the gel can migrate outside the breast area.
Silicone breast implants, however, may show no signs that a rupture has occurred.
Since silicone gel is thick, it can remain within a breast implant even after it has ruptured, or leak very slowly into the breast.
Silicone leaks are classified in three categories:
* Intracapsular -
when silicone is contained within the fibrous capsule that surrounds the implant.
* Extracapsular -
when silicone has leaked into the breast tissue outside the capsule.
* Migratory –
when silicone moves into other areas of the body.
However, women with silicone breast implants should have regular MRI screenings to check for signs of ruptured breast implants.
Several factors can increase the chances of ruptured breast implants. These include:
* Damage by surgical instruments
* Excessive handling during surgery
* Compression during mammographic imaging
* Trauma or intense physical pressure
* Severe capsular contracture
* Stacking of implants (multiple implants per breast pocket)
* Normal implant wear caused by aging
Silicone implants are preferred because of their superior attributes to saline filled implants.
While a leaking saline implant does not cause much harm, what happens when the silicone leaks into the body?
With more than 300,000 breast implant surgeries per year this becomes an important question.
Studies of silicone breast implants suggest that most implants last 7-12 years, but some break during the first few months or years, while others last more than 15 years.
In a study conducted by FDA scientists, most women had at least one broken implant within 11 years, and the likelihood of rupture tends to increase over time.
In 21 percent of these instances, the silicone had migrated outside of the gel capsule and leaked into the lymph nodes and other organs.
If the silicone migrates outside the scar tissue, it can destroy healthy breast tissue.
Women with ruptured silicone implants can lose breast tissue as part of the removal surgery; in some cases, this may result in surgery that is similar to a mastectomy.
However, there are no published data on how often this occurs.
"If a doctor tells you they don't have complications, they're either not operating or they're lying to you"
says Dr. Jack A. Friedland of Scottsdale.
2) Chemicals Remain Within The Body.
A German study of the scar tissue surrounding removed implants found that the tissue was commonly impregnated with chemicals from the implant, and showed evidence of chronic inflammation occurring there.
3) Breast Implants May Affect Breastfeeding.
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), women with any kind of breast surgery, including breast implant surgery, are at least three times as likely to have an inadequate milk supply for breastfeeding.Concerns about the safety of breast milk have also been raised, but there has not been enough research to resolve this issue.
A study of a small number of women with silicone gel breast implants found that the offspring born and breastfed after the mother had breast implants had higher levels of a toxic form of platinum in their blood than offspring born before the same women had breast implants.
4) Loss Of Nipple Sensitivity.
There could also be some loss of sensation or altered nipple sensation if the nerves to the nipple and aureole have been severed. This is quite a sacrifice for the sake of beauty!
5) Feeling Abnormal.
Some women are dissatisfied with the cosmetic results of breast implants, because their breasts look or feel unnatural or asymmetrical, or they can hear a "sloshing sound" from saline-filled implants. Problems like these can potentially interfere with sexual intimacy.
6) Infections.
Infection caused by bacteria entering through the incision, it usually does so within one to six weeks after surgery.
This can be cleared through taking antibiotics and in a serious cases will require the removal of the implant.
The infection must clear (which can take up to several months if it is severe) before the implant can be replaced.
Infections are known to increase the likelihood of capsular contracture.
Further, several researchers have shown that bacteria or mold can grow in saline implants and have expressed concerns about the bacteria or mold being released into the body if the implant breaks.
What effect that might have on a woman, or a nursing baby, has not been studied.
7) Cost Is The Main Concern.
Complications became more and more common for each year that the implant is in the body.
On average, implants last 7-12 years, and each replacement adds to the cost.
Even if the implant itself is replaced for free, or if the surgeon offers his or her services for free, the cost of the medical facility, anesthesiology, and other expenses can still cost many thousands of dollars for each surgery.
These expenses are affordable for some women, but not for others, and they are certainly more likely to be burdensome for a woman whose implant breaks after just a few months or years.
When the FDA approved silicone gel breast implants in November 2006, it stated that women with these implants should have a breast MRI three years after getting silicone implants and every two years after that.
The purpose of the MRIs is to determine if the silicone gel breast implants are ruptured or leaking, because there are often no symptoms.
Breast MRIs usually cost at least $2,000, and at some facilities they cost more than $5,000.
It is important to remove silicone implants if they are ruptured, to avoid the silicone leaking into the breast or lymph nodes.
That is an additional expense of at least $5,000, and can be $10,000 or more.
Saline implants do not require MRIs to check for leakage, and do not usually cost more than $5,000 to remove.
The cost of MRIs and the additional cost of removing leaking silicone makes silicone implants substantially more expensive than saline.
8) Sorry You Are Not Covered!
Typically, cosmetic surgery is not covered by health insurance, and problems resulting from cosmetic surgery are also excluded from coverage.
Health insurance will not pay for MRIs to check for silicone leakage for augmentation patients.
In some states, major health insurance providers do not insure women with breast implants.
Some insurers will sell health insurance to women with implants, but charge them more, and some insurers will not cover certain kinds of illnesses - or any problems in the breast area - for women with breast implants.
Obviously, this can be a terrible problem for women who are diagnosed with breast cancer or any other illnesses that are excluded, whether or not those diseases are related to the implants.
So just imagine, over 30,000 women a year have their implants surgically removed. Women are told to have scans every 2 years to detect leakages (not covered by insurance). Many women will need to have their implants replaced every 10 years at their own expense. Can you afford that?
9) Breast Implants May Interfere With Mammograms Screening.
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. Since mammograms have been shown to detect breast cancer earlier and thus save lives, unfortunately, implants can interfere with cancer detection during routine mammograms.
There are several ways in which implants have the potential to delay detection of breast cancer:
• Saline or silicone gel breast implants can make it difficult for the x-ray machine to see all of the breast tissue, creating the potential for tumors or other abnormalities to remain hidden.
• A study by FDA scientists indicates that silicone or saline implants can rupture when women undergo mammograms, and for this reason, women who fear implant rupture may forego mammograms.
• The accuracy of mammograms tends to decrease as the size of the implants increase in proportion to the size of the woman's natural breast.
10) Breast implants may be linked to auto-immune diseases.
FDA scientists conducted a study of women who had silicone gel breast implants for at least seven years and found that those with leaking implants were significantly more likely to report fibromyalgia, a painful auto-immune disease.The risk of fibromyalgia remained even after controlling for patient's age, implant age, and implant manufacturer.
These researchers also found that women with leaking silicone implants were significantly more likely to report a diagnosis of at least one of the following painful and debilitating diseases, such as:
* Dermatomyositis
* Polymyositis
* Hashimoto's thyroiditis
* Mixed connective-tissue disease
* Pulmonary fibrosis
* Eosinophilic fasciitis
* Polymyalgia
11) Possibility May Lead To Capsular Contracture.
Scar tissue that forms naturally around any implant or foreign body can, in some cases, become hard or tight around the implant.This common problem is called capsular contracture.
The scar tissue is inside the body, but it can cause the breasts to become very hard and misshaped, and it leads to discomfort that ranges from mild to severely painful.
The most likely treatment is to remove and replace the implants, but manufacturers' research indicates that the replacement implants are likely to cause even more complications than the original implants.
Also, additional surgery comes with additional risks and the expense can be much greater than the original surgery.
12) Possibility Of Rippling.
Rippling occurs when the filling material inside a breast implant shifts around and allows a wrinkle or fold to appear in the outer shell.The result is a bump, ridge, or valley that can be felt and sometimes seen on the surface of the breast.
The external visibility of a breast implant depends on the thickness and quality of the patient's skin.
If an implant is large or there is little muscle or fatty tissue to conceal it, any rippling that occurs will be more noticeable.
Rippling is most likely to appear on the outer side of the breast, along the bottom of the breast, and toward the cleavage.
13) Some Complications After Breast Implants.
Breast implants can take several weeks or months to settle into place. What is possible after implant surgery?Breast Implants and the Risk of Surgeries
• Swelling from the surgery can extend into the abdominal area.
• Bruising which can lead to a hematoma (internal bleeding).
• Decreased nipple sensation due to damage of the nerve pathways during the surgery.
• Itching caused by stretching of the skin. The skin and muscles will be stretched to accommodate the implant. If you decide to remove the implants after a number of years, you can be left with folds of excess skin.
• Dissatisfaction with the look and feel of the implants.
• Wrinkling, scarring, asymmetry and a shifting of the implant.
The makers of two saline breast implant devices admit that “most women experienced at least one complication over the three year period”
14) Chances Of Falling Ill Is High.
Most of the women who go under a surgery and get implants are relatively healthy and all these surgeries are performed for no medical reason.Studies have showed that, it causes them ill sooner or later. And most of these women are young, in the age between 25 and 45.
A more recent NCI study found that women who had breast implants for at least 12 years were more likely to die from brain tumors, lung cancer, other respiratory diseases, and suicide compared with other plastic surgery patients
Although breast implant surgery has gained immense popularity as a means of achieving an appealing, well-proportioned breast size, there are risks with any type of surgery and breast augmentation is no different.
There are many implant and litigation horror stories that verify that complications can and do occur.
Such information may greatly overwhelm anyone who is about to make a big decision such as having breast augmentation.
This is perhaps the reason why many women are seeking out natural methods to increase breast size to feel more confident and physically appealing.
Natural methods of breast enhancement or breast expansionare taking the market by storm these days.
It is such a good option, especially if you cannot afford breast augmentation surgery, neither do you want to take the risk of a surgery nor want to waste your time in recovering from such a surgery, nor would you like to have any side effects in future.
Natural methods are proven and there is no risk, and what it does for you in regards to both your body and your sense of self-esteem is priceless and is an easy, effective process, as long as you follow the simple step-by- step guide along the way.
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