Breast Implants - An Analytic Study

Breast implants are a most common surgical practice followed the world over. The plastic surgeons with expertise in this surgery adopt several methods to reconstruct the breasts. Women most commonly use this method as a part of personality development, when they feel that their breasts lack natural growth or that their uneven sizes seriously mar their looks.

A strange addiction for implants is also reported in some cases, when women feel that their breasts will never attain natural growth and an implant is imperative. Breast conservation surgery is also done using implants for patients who underwent mastectomy after breast cancer. There are occasions when transsexual patients from males to females go for implants to develop their sizes to the requirement of a normal woman.

Different methods for breast implants were followed by surgeons in the early 1950s and 1960s. They came up with synthetic fillers of natural breast models and even used silicone injections that later led to serious medical complications necessitating treatments. As time passed by with advanced technological devices, such old practices were totally abandoned.

The breast profiles normally include three different sizes categorized as regular, high and low profiles and the patients are at liberty to select the one, that they feel most suitable to their body. There are a lot of advisory guidelines for choosing the right profile according to the body frame of a person. Silicon and saline implants are most commonly in use now. In silicone implants, a silicone shell is filled with silicon gel. The silicone being, a natural and soft element is less prone to wrinkles and maintains its shape, even if the implant happens to rupture inside the body. There is also a rare chance of silicone entering in and interfering with the blood stream.

In saline implants, the solution used is the salt water similar in consistency with the body fluids that the body normally absorbs in case of any rupture. However there is a chance of saline gradually decreasing in volume and leading to deflation, besides the chance of wrinkling, unlike in the cases of silicones.

In some countries, soya bean oil filled or titanium coated implants were in use that had to be later removed by their beneficiaries under medical advice. There is also a claim that the micro polyurethane -coated implant is more compatible to the body as the sponge like structure allows the tissues to grow into it and it is less prone to capsular contracture compared with other methods. The silicone breast implants are approved for all ages of women by the F.D.A of United States. No direct link between silicone breast implants and cancerous growths is established from the medical studies made so far. Similar views have been expressed by the countries of European Union,after independent researches conducted by them.