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Meet the Three Boobed Woman!

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

Wow. This is crazy. In interviews, she claimed that she saw 50-60 plastic surgeons before she could find one who would create a third breast for her. Creating a third breast is possible, I suppose, but difficult and would likely necessitate several surgeries.

I doubt that any real, board-certified plastic surgeons in their right mind would perform this deforming procedure. I certainly wouldn’t. The doctor who did perform this operation on her should be ashamed of himself or herself. What a creep, indeed.

UPDATE: It appears the 3 breasted woman is a HOAX. Apparently she’s wearing some kind of prosthetic. Pretty creepy though!

 

Breast Implants 101: My Segment On Fox Monday!

Monday, October 29th, 2012

I’ll be joining my friend Deena Centofanti at Fox 2 Detroit’s The Nine Monday morning, October 29th in the 10 am hour.  We’ll be discussing Breast Implants 101: Everything you need to know about breast augmentation.  We’ll discuss many issues, including saline and silicone implants, recovery time, and gummy bear implants.  Hope you get a chance to watch!

 

An Ideal Implant?

Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

A new study on an investigational breast implant shows that it could have some considerable benefits compared to the currently utilized breast implants.  According to a study published in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, the Ideal Implant (a double-lumen, saline-filled breast implant) has a high rate of patient and surgeon satisfaction, low rate of wrinkling, and a surprisingly low rate of capsular contracture when compared to the single lumen saline implants used today.  Here are the results:

Two-year follow-up  visits were completed by 472 of the 502 women (94.0%) enrolled at 35  private practices, 378 of whom had undergone primary breast augmentation and 94 of whom had received replacement augmentation. Patient-reported  satisfaction with the outcome was 94.3% for primary augmentations and  92.3% for replacement augmentations; surgeon-reported satisfaction was  also high (96.5% and 93.4%, respectively). The incidence of  moderate-to-severe wrinkling was 3.8% (primary) and 12.0% (replacement).  Baker Grade III and IV capsular contracture rates were 3.8% (primary)  and 8.2% (replacement). These two-year rates are lower than those  reported for current single-lumen saline implants at one year.  Deflations, none of which were caused by a shell fold flaw, occurred in  4.8% of primary augmentations and 3.3% of replacement augmentations.

I’ve had the privilege of examining the Ideal Implant and talking with its developer, and so far I’m impressed.  The implant feels more natural than traditional saline implants, but without the controversy of silicone implants.  Unfortunately, it’s not FDA approved yet.  When it does achieve FDA approval, however, I will announce it on this site!

For more information on the Ideal Implant, click HERE to visit their website.

 

FDA Approves New Silicone Gel Breast Implant

Saturday, March 10th, 2012

The FDA has approved the silicone breast implant from the manufacturer Sientra.  From the FDA website:

FDA approves new silicone gel-filled breast
implant
Approval conditioned on post-approval safety studies

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a silicone gel-filled
breast implant manufactured by Sientra Inc. to increase breast size
(augmentation) in women at least 22 years old and to rebuild breast tissue
(reconstruction) in women of any age.

As a condition of approval, Sientra is required to conduct post-approval
studies that will assess long-term safety and effectiveness outcomes as well as
the risks of rare disease outcomes.

Silicone gel-filled breast implants are medical devices implanted under the
breast tissue or under the chest muscle for breast augmentation or
reconstruction. These implants have a silicone outer shell that is filled with
silicone gel. They come in different sizes and have either smooth or textured
shells.

With today’s approval, there are now three FDA-approved silicone gel-filled
breast implants in the U.S. manufactured by Allergan, Mentor and Sientra.

“Data on these and other approved silicone gel-filled breast implants
continue to demonstrate a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness,”
said William Maisel, M.D., M.P.H., deputy director for science in the FDA’s
Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

“It’s important to remember that breast implants are not lifetime devices.
Women should fully understand risks associated with breast implants before
considering augmentation or reconstruction surgery, and recognize that long-term
monitoring is essential.” said Maisel.

The FDA based its Sientra approval on three years of clinical data from 1,788
participants. Complications and outcomes reflected those found in previous
studies of other breast implants and included tightening of the area around the
implant (capsular contracture), re-operation, implant removal, an uneven
appearance (asymmetry), and infection.

In June 2011, the FDA released a report that included preliminary safety data
from post-approval studies from earlier breast implant approvals. The experience
collecting and analyzing data from these studies informed the design and
structure of post-approval studies for Sientra breast implants.

In addition to other post-approval conditions, Sientra will:

  • continue to follow the 1,788 clinical trial participants in their pre-market
    study for an additional 7 years;
  • conduct a 10-year study of 4,782 women receiving Sientra silicone gel-filled
    breast implants to collect information on long-term local complications such as
    capsular contracture, as well as less common disease outcomes, such as
    rheumatoid arthritis and breast and lung cancer; and
  • conduct five case-control studies that will evaluate the association between
    Sientra’s silicone gel-filled breast implants and five rare diseases: rare
    connective tissue disease, neurological disease, brain cancer, cervical/vulvar
    cancer, and lymphoma.

“The design of these post-approval studies will require Sientra to collect
valuable safety information with adequate enrollment and follow-up,” said
Maisel. “The FDA is committed to working with breast implant manufacturers to
collect useful post-market data on long-term safety and effectiveness.”

My comment: This is a big deal in the plastic surgery field.  Mentor and Allergan (aka McGhan) have been the only real players in the breast implant market for 20 years.  Although Sientra’s implants are now approved for use, their products remain unknown to the vast majority of plastic surgeons.  Study results have not been publicly released (to my knowledge), and therefore how Sientra’s implants stack up to Mentor and Allergan’s is still in question.

Breast augmentation is the number one cosmetic plastic surgery in the country, with over 300,000 women undergoing the surgery each year according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.  If Sientra’s implants test as well as the other two companies AND have a lower price, then we may see more and more women being able to afford breast augmentation.  I’ll report on the new Sientra silicone breast implant as information is released.

 

Are Terrorists Planning To Implant Bombs In Breast Implants?

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

For forty years terrorists have been searching for better and better ways to bring bombs onto planes.  They no longer can hide them in their shoes or underwear, so now British Intelligence and U.S. Homeland Security are reporting internet chatter that terrorists may be planning to surgically implant bombs into the body.  These bombs may be implanted into the abdominal cavity, shoved up the rectum, or even hidden in a breast implant.  CBS News has reported that Al-Qaida may be actively recruiting surgeons to perform these ridiculous procedures.

What is this world coming to?  Can’t a woman have large, shapely breasts without worrying that someone might suspect that those breasts might explode and kill everyone?

For a comprehensive, interesting article on this topic posted in Slate.com, click here.

 

Snake Bites Model’s Breast And Dies of Silicone Poisoning

Friday, March 25th, 2011

This is a really strange story. An Israeli model was being filmed with a snake when it suddenly bit her on the breast, puncturing one of her silicone breast implants! Reportedly, the snake died shortly afterwards from silicone poisoning! The video is pretty graphic, so consider yourself warned. I’m sure she’s thankful the snake didn’t bite her tongue!

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Carly Fiorina – Infection 3 Months After Breast Reconstruction

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

California Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has been released from the hospital after being treated for an infection related to reconstruction surgery.  She had previously been diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent bilateral mastectomies with reconstruction, with the last stage being performed back in July.  What type of infection could this be, many months after her last surgery?

Hopefully the infection does not involve a breast implant, which is often used in reconstruction.  If an implant is infected, it needs to be removed, typically for six months to allow the infection to resolve.  For those six months the patient would have only one augmented (or reconstructed) breast.  This is my greatest fear when operating on smokers, who have a five times higher risk of healing complications over nonsmokers.

My best wishes go out to Ms. Fiorina.  To all my female readers over the age of 40:

Get Your Mammograms!

It is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, after all.

 

Breast implant saves a life

Friday, August 18th, 2006

This has nothing to do with celebrities, but I thought it was a great story to tell. A 24 year old Isreali woman was recently struck with shrapnel during the Hizbullah/Israeli conflict. Pieces of the shrapnel were found imbedded in her silicone breast implants, just inches from her heart. A hospital spokesman announced that the implants “saved” her “from death.”

Who says plastic surgery can’t save a life?

Story credit: plasticsurgery101.blogspot.com