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Breast Implants: most common plastic surgery

sheyla hershey, originally uploaded by branko_.

Photo: Sheyla Hershey, 30 years old, Brazilian model living in Houston, Texas, is known for her huge breast implants. After 8 surgeries, she had a recorded breast size of 34FFF in May 2008, and by the end of January 2009, after another operation, she was reported to be a size 38KKK.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, breast augmentation is the most commonly performed cosmetic surgical procedure in USA. It is also known by names such as breast implants, breast enlargement, mammoplasty, or the common slang term, boob job, and it is a prosthesis used to alter the size and shape of a woman's breasts, mostly, for cosmetic reasons.

Breast implants have been used since the late nineteenth century, the earliest known implant being attempted by an Austrian-German surgeon Vincenz Czerny (1842-1916), using a woman's own adipose tissue. Since then a variety of materials have been tried by surgeons as breast implants, such as paraffin injections, ivory, glass balls, ground rubber, ox cartilage, Terylene wool, gutta-percha, Dicora, polyethylene chips, Ivalon, polyether sponge (Etheron), polyethylene tape (Polystan), polyurethane sponge, Silastic rubber, teflon-silicone prostheses, and silicone injections. In recent times, various creams and medications have also been used in attempts to increase bust size of women.

Saline-filled and silicone-gel-filled implants are the two primary types of breast implants. Saline implants have a silicone elastomer shell filled with sterile saline liquid. Silicone gel implants have a silicone shell filled with a viscous silicone gel.

Saline-filled breast implants were first manufactured in France in 1964. Currently available saline implants are manufactured with thicker vulcanized shells made of silicone elastomer and the implants are filled with saline (salt water). Since the implants are empty when they are surgically inserted, the scar is smaller than is necessary for silicone gel breast implants.

Saline implants were the most common implants used in USA during the 1990s. Though results were good, compared to silicone gel implants, saline implants are more likely to cause cosmetic problems such as rippling, wrinkling, and can be visible or felt by touch. For women with very little breast tissues and for post-mastectomy breast reconstruction, silicone gel implants are considered as superior.

Two plastic surgeons, Thomas Cronin and Frank Gerow of Houston (Texas) developed the first silicone breast prosthesis in 1961 and the first woman was implanted in 1962. Since then silicone implants have undergone many improvements to reach the present levels of perfection, and the developmental stages are generally described in terms of five generations based on manufacturing techniques.

The fifth generation breast implants mark the evolution of ‘gummy bear’ or solid, high-cohesive and form-stable implants, widely used in the United States since the mid 1990s, and in other countries. The semi-solid gel in these types of implants eliminates the possibility of silicone migration. These implants have shown significant improvements in safety over the older implants.

The surgical procedure for breast augmentation takes about one to two hours. Variations in procedures are due to the incision types, implant materials, and implant pocket placements. After a breast augmentation procedure, generally women can resume normal activity in about a week. Women who have their implants placed underneath the muscle (submuscular placement) will generally have a longer recovery time. Exercise and strenuous physical activity may need to be avoided for up to six weeks. Scars from a breast augmentation surgery will last for six weeks or longer and begin to fade away a few months after surgery.

Breast implants, whether for cosmetic or reconstructive purposes, carry risks common to other types of surgery, including reactions to anesthesia, infections, change in sensation, bleeding, scars, interference with breast feeding, wrinkling, asymmetry of breasts and thinning of the breast tissues. Breast implants can remain intact for decades in the body without rupture.

Women with implants can breastfeed babies. Implants may cause difficulties in nursing, and some procedures such as periareolar incisions and sub-glandular placements can cause greater difficulties. For this reason, a woman in her childbearing years is advised to discuss breastfeeding and other health implications with a well-qualified plastic surgeon before surgery. Other plastic surgeries such as breast lifts or nipple surgery may also cause difficulties, while breast reduction surgery is more likely to cause nursing difficulties, due to removal of breast tissues.

Surveys on the mental health and quality of life of women who underwent breast implants showed improvements on physical health, social life, self confidence, self esteem, physical appearance and better sex life, though these improvements may be transitory. Most women surveyed were satisfied in the long run with their implants.

Since the early 1990s, dozens of systemic reviews have been commissioned by various agencies to examine the alleged links between silicone gel breast implants and systemic diseases. A clear consensus has emerged from these independent scientific reviews in countries such as UK, USA, France, Australia, Germany and Spain that there is no clear evidence of a link between silicone implants and connective tissue diseases.

Paris, Heidi and Jessica

Recently I myself woke up--surprised--to find that I had had a boob job overnight., originally uploaded by Mollissima!.

Another South Beach lingerie mannequin

In South Beach even the mannequins have boob jobs., originally uploaded by keylargo_diver.

The South Beach store mannequin pic2

On South Beach even the Mannequins have Boob jobs!, originally uploaded by keylargo_diver.

The South Beach mannequin

On South Beach even the Mannequins have Boob jobs!, originally uploaded by keylargo_diver.

It's not a real woman, but a mannequin on a South Beach store, probably selling plus size lingerie!

Lidia promotes green earth

My Cousin thinking of getting a boob job, originally uploaded by Tainor.

Daphne after breast-implant

daphne boob job lol, originally uploaded by josephgutierrez.

Cartoon: tummy tuck without surgery

Surgery Free Tummy Tuck!, originally uploaded by mestizalandlady.

This interesting cartoon had a note below it that said, "How to get a slim stomach without dieting or surgery!"

Tummy tuck cartoon

Maxine & tummy tuck, originally uploaded by lsve5ls.

Why some women need a tummy tuck

Los Angeles Tummy Tuck, originally uploaded by sanapala.ram13.

All over the world, tummy tuck or abdominoplasty is one of the many forms of most popular plastic surgery procedures that women go for today to enhance their looks and to achieve a perfectly sculpted body shape. It is one of the most popular aesthetic or cosmetic surgery procedures such as mammoplasty (including breast implant or boob job for breast enhancement, breast reduction and breast lift), buttock augmentation (butt implant including Brazilian butt lift and lifting and tightening of the buttocks), liposuction (suction-assisted lipectomy), labiaplasty, lip enhancement, rhinoplasty (nose job), otoplasty (ear surgery), rhytidectomy (face lift), and blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery).

A tummy tuck is the best option to remove excess fat in the abdomen apart from reducing the overall circumference around the waist, to tighten the abdominal muscles, remove wrinkles, sagging and to give the body its natural shape. Women past their teens know, unless they were suffering from childhood obesity, how beautiful their shapes were, before they put on weight, generally after pregnancy and childbirth, and even in women who never had children, because of their unhealthy eating habits and redundant lifestyles. Exercising and reverting back to healthy food habits can help in the early stages, but it will not help after the fat deposits acquire gigantic proportions.

A tummy tuck surgery usually involves removal of excess skin and fat from the middle and lower abdomen for tightening the muscle and fascia of the abdominal wall. It is useful for women with loose tissues after pregnancy or with sagging after a major weight loss. Tummy tuck operations may take 1 to 5 hours to complete, depending on how fatty the tummy is.

There are many variations of tummy tuck. Depending on the problem to be treated, surgical techniques, and other factors, it can take one to four weeks for recovery after a tummy tuck operation, and it may take at least a portion of this recovery time off from work.

The cost of a tummy tuck varies from place to place, depending on a variety of factors like the age of the patient, their weight and the state of their health. Depending on the individuals, there may also be other costs involved after the operation. On average in the United States, a tummy tuck can cost from $4,000 to $20,000.

In the case of an ‘extended abdominoplasty’, a complete abdominoplasty plus a lateral thigh lift, the operation does all of the abdominal contouring and helps further improvement of the waist as well as smoothening the contour of the upper lateral thigh.

An advanced technique, ‘high lateral tension tummy tuck’, tightens muscles in a vertical line. In this new method, which in addition to vertical line tightening, muscles are also tightened horizontally, giving a dramatically flat abdomen with significantly better-defined waistline.

Circumferential abdominoplasty, an extended abdominoplasty plus a buttock lift, is most appropriate for women who have undergone massive weight loss. Combination procedures can be combined with liposuction contouring, breast reduction, breast lift, or occasionally hysterectomy, depending on the reason for the hysterectomy. A popular name for breast enhancement procedures performed in conjunction with an abdominoplasty is a Mommy Makeover.

Lucy Pinder wearing a bikini at Bournemouth Beach

The 26-year-old English glamour model Lucy Pinder is rumored to have undergone rhinoplasty, giving her nose a very straight and narrow shape from bridge to tip, apart from lip injections resulting in very pouty lips. Earlier she was reported to have allegedly undergone breast augmentation, internet rumor mills say.

But plastic surgeons are of the opinion that they don’t see any telltale signs of invasive plastic surgery. Any way, she seems to like everything big for example big lips, possibly resulting from the product of filler injections.

The beautiful Lucy was spotted on Bournemouth beach in 2003 by a freelance photographer while she was sunbathing, and the photo he clicked that day landed her in a professional modelling contract with Daily Star. And from the beginning, she has partnered with Michelle Marsh and they appeared in many magazine and TV campaigns and corporate business promotions. Sophie Howard, Jana Defi, Danielle Lloyd, Lindsey Strutt and Saskia Howard-Clarke are other fashion models Pinder was featured.

Pinder runs a weekly advice column entitled ‘The Truth About Women’ in Nuts magazine and also has a television career. From 2 January 2009 she appeared in the sixth series of Celebrity Big Brother. But she was the first housemate to be voted out on 9 January with 57 per cent of public vote going against her.

Britney Spears - tummy-tuck