Fw: The Greatest Myths in Breast Augmentation

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> Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Feb 2002

>

> " The Greatest Myths in Breast Augmentation "

>

> In 1970, the late Jack Penn was approached to give a page at the

> forthcoming annual plastic surgery meeting in S Africa. Jack said " I will

> talk about anything other than breast augmentation. Breast augmentation

> is not an operation; it is a procedure. You can make a cavity, insert a

> large foreign body, the patients all have complications, and are all

> happy. "

>

> Breast augmentation as espoused in the editorial by Tebbetts (The

> Greatest Myths in Breast Augmentation. Plastic & Reconstr Surg 107:1895

> 2001) is like wine tasting.

>

> A lot of words, and yet it all comes down to taste. In augmentation,

taste

> is individual; patients and surgeons; size, shape, ( within minor tissue

> variables, does the implant shape the tissues or the tissues shape the

> implant?) approach, incision. implant (saline, silicone, " anatomical " ),

> etc., etc.

>

> Knowing that breast augmentation has more problems and complications than

> any other procedure in plastic surgery, perhaps the greatest myth about

> breast augmentation may be that, over the years, as Jack Penn proclaimed

30

> years ago and as Tebbetts confirms today, so much continues to be

> written about a procedure that has not changed fundamentally since the

> 1960's.

>

> Melmed MD

> Dallas TX

>

>

>

>

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Subject: " The Greatest Myths in Breast Augmentation "

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>

> Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Feb 2002

>

> " The Greatest Myths in Breast Augmentation "

>

> In 1970, the late Jack Penn was approached to give a page at the

> forthcoming annual plastic surgery meeting in S Africa. Jack said " I will

> talk about anything other than breast augmentation. Breast augmentation

> is not an operation; it is a procedure. You can make a cavity, insert a

> large foreign body, the patients all have complications, and are all

> happy. "

>

> Breast augmentation as espoused in the editorial by Tebbetts (The

> Greatest Myths in Breast Augmentation. Plastic & Reconstr Surg 107:1895

> 2001) is like wine tasting.

>

> A lot of words, and yet it all comes down to taste. In augmentation,

taste

> is individual; patients and surgeons; size, shape, ( within minor tissue

> variables, does the implant shape the tissues or the tissues shape the

> implant?) approach, incision. implant (saline, silicone, " anatomical " ),

> etc., etc.

>

> Knowing that breast augmentation has more problems and complications than

> any other procedure in plastic surgery, perhaps the greatest myth about

> breast augmentation may be that, over the years, as Jack Penn proclaimed

30

> years ago and as Tebbetts confirms today, so much continues to be

> written about a procedure that has not changed fundamentally since the

> 1960's.

>

> Melmed MD

> Dallas TX

>

>