Sunday, December 16, 2007

Breast augmentation

'Woman thy name is vanity'Yes breast augmentation has come of age.Breast augmentation is cosmetic surgery where a breast implant is used to enhance the size of a women’s breast. Starting from the earliest by Czemy who used a women’s own adipose tissue from a lipoma on her back to the present silicone implants it has come a long way. Two main types are used presently - saline implants (silicone elastomer shell filled with sterile saline)and silicone implants (silicone rubber envelope filled with thick viscous silicone gel).The complications are systemic (rheumatological problems and fibromyalgia) and local (rupture and capsular contracture). Rupture can be intracapsular (teardrop and capsular fold -linguine sign)or extracapsular (granulomas).

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