Silicone Implants

Women who opt for silicone breast implant surgery should think twice. “Last year, 236,888 women underwent breast implant surgery for augmentation and approximately 40,000 women underwent breast implant surgery for reconstruction after a mastectomy” (HealthMoon). Those numbers have been increasing each year; in fact, the number of women and teenage girls who underwent augmentation surgery more than doubled between 1997 and 2002. Many women who undergo these surgeries are replacing old implants that have broken or caused problems. Some women report as many as ten or more surgeries as their implants are replaced over the years.
“Breast implants were first sold in the 1960’s, but the FDA did not have the authority to regulate them until 1976. Sales were relatively slow until the 1980’s but by 1990, almost one million women had had breast implants, even though there were no published studies about their safety, and the FDA had never approved them” (HealthMoon). Fina...