In our good news bad news depending on how you look at it story for the day, doctors are insisting that women are demanding larger breast implants during procedures for breast augmentation.
For men this is good news. For women it's bad. Bad for your health according to doctors. The prevailing opinion is that increasing the size by too great a number not only causes unnatural looks, it's a health hazard. Larger implants are more prone to rupture, cause cellular tissue damage, over-stretched marks and drooping. According to cosmetic surgeon Roy Ng, “Seven years ago most women wanted to go up one cup size. Today the average is one and a half to two cup sizes. This is an average increase of 15 to 25 per cent.”
Other concerns from breast implants alone are lymph node infiltration and damage by leaked silicone.
Dr. Patrick Mallucci adds, “There is a fine line between enhancement and distortion. Yes, you can go bigger, but let’s be sensible about this because there are down sides to going too big.”
Due to consumer demand, Mentor a manufacturer of breast implants has recently lobbied to change the ways the FDA approves their implants to which many anti-breast implant advocates are hoping to expose to the general public. In a letter released by Rosa DeLauro (Chairwoman House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies) published October 11, 2009 to the Commissioner of the FDA she states:
Silicone breast implants were approved based on a number of conditions that Mentor and Allergen were to follow, and less than one year after their approval, the conditions appear to be changing. If true, this raises serious policy questions regarding the FDA's post marketing approval process.
Public Citizen a national non-profit public interest group asserts that breast implants alone are the single most defective product ever approved by the FDA.
This writer would offer this advice. Love your body for what it is. It's the only one you got.