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Breast Enlargement – Silicone Implant Technology
By OnTopic | July 23, 2009
It is extremely common for women to be unhappy with the size and shape of their breasts. Breast enlargement (known technically as Augmentation Mammoplasty) involves placing an artificial implant into the breast so as to increase the size of the breast and to produce an amount of breast lift where necessary. Breast Enhancement is by far the most popular plastic surgery procedure requested by women.
Why Have Breast Augmentation Surgery?
Whatever you might have heard to the contrary, other than surgery, there is no other method of increasing breast size evenly, safely and permanently.
The only accepted technique for increasing breast size is to insert an implant into a space created behind your own breast. It is the size of this space (determined by your own anatomy), along with your own wishes, which determines the size of breast implant employed.
About The New Generation of Silicone Implants
Since its inception, there have been many advances in silicone implant technology. Today implants are very safe and highly resistant, removing a lot of the former concerns as to their long-term safety.
So What Is Silicone?
Silicones are in fact man-made molecules (polymers) that are widely used in numerous skin and hair products; in processed food and food packaging; in most baby foods; in many medicines, syringes and most other types of medical implants. Consequently every day:
- we absorb it through our skin
- We ingest it in our food
- We absorb it from the food we consume
- It might even be injected into our bodies
Breast implants are available in a large range of sizes, usually expressed as a volume. To give an idea, 70ml would be a very small implant; whereas 500ml would be a very large implant. The great majority of women have implants in the range of 200ml to 300ml.
Breast implants are of two fundamental types, either round or in the form of a tear-drop. Some surgeons prefer one form over the other, whilst others will use different types depending on the patient’s own characteristics. By and large, both give excellent results.
Breast Implant Materials
Implants in cohesive silicone gel are by far the most popular type of implant, both with patients and surgeons alike. The silicone is in the form of a very thick and cohesive gel. Most modern implants are produced with a textured silicone shell.
These implants have a very long history of reliability, with literally hundreds of thousands of women world-wide having had them in place for many years with no problems whatsoever. In addition, they are generally considered to be the most natural feeling implant. In recent years, more than 85% of all breast implants inserted in the UK have been silicone, 97% of which had textured shells.
Solid Cohesive Silicone Gel
In this type of silicone implant, the gel is almost solid in feel and the outer shell is always textured. The result is that it is now possible to form the implant into the shape of a tear-drop. Some surgeons consider that this results in a more natural shape for some women. However, they can also be associated with a much firmer consistency or feel.
Here we have looked at breast enhancement from a practical point of view. If you have any further more detailed questions, you can address these to your surgeon who will be able to provide you with a response tailored exactly to your individual circumstances.
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