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Breast augmentation: What about the really scary websites about breast implants?

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V. Dowden, M.D., C.M., F.A.C.S.

Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery

Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery, Inc.

6770 Mayfield Road, Suite 410

(Mayfield Heights) Cleveland, Ohio 44124

(440) 449-7470

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about

breast enlargement:

What about those really scary websites about breast implants?

You were supposed to be frightened! That is the objective of the sponsors of those sites! There is a small but highly vocal group of people, mostly women, who are very strongly opposed to women getting breast implants. They want implants to be gone from the face of the earth, and do not want women to have the option of getting them for any reason whatsoever. There are many different reasons behind this attitude, including:

Religious opposition to cosmetic surgery.

Opposition to anything men find attractive.

Bitterness over inability to have implants themselves.

Resentment of attractive women.

Personal preference for smaller breasts.

Belief that implants cause illness. More on this.

Desire to change the rules of society for women. More on this.

Financial incentive to stir up fear. More on this.

Personal insecurity.

As one example of several of these together, there is an internet site put up by a fairly well-known talk-show hostess who is fervently anti-implant, having had a bad experience herself. At one time, she wanted implants, and got them (silicone-filled type), and had them damaged and then operated on multiple times to try to salvage them, and now is left with scarred breasts that cannot be made to look normal, and more to the point, she can never have implants put back in. So now she attempts to make women feel foolish for desiring implants, even though she herself desired them strongly enough to go through a number of operations in order to have and keep them. But here's the amazing part: her surgeon was not certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery! She conveniently neglects to mention this when discussing her hatred of implants on TV, but she did reveal it in an interview with People magazine several years ago as follows: "He wasn't board certified, but he was affordable." Well, sometimes affordable is not sufficient in the long run.

How to put all this into perspective? Imagine you want to go on vacation, let's say to the Bahamas, and you need to fly to get there. You have been looking forward to it for a long time, maybe have your reservation, and perhaps even have your tickets already. Then one day you are internet surfing, and you hit a page put up by a group strongly opposed to air-travel. On their pages they show graphic, horrible photographs of airplane crashes, in all the terrible detail. Who wouldn't be frightened?! And just maybe, they hope, you will become so fearful that your fear makes you cancel your flight and vacation completely; if so, the group has scored their objective.

There are risks to surgery, just as with anything else in life, skiing, swimming, flying, driving a car, sitting in a movie theatre, sleeping at night, or walking in the woods. The decision to do any of these things must rest on the balance between how strongly you want the benefits versus how worried are you about the risks.

One very important thing to note about these highly dramatic negative sites: there is no scientific data available to support their claims. It is important to be aware of the fact that in 1996, the lawyers and judges who are trying to push through the silicone lawsuits appointed their own panel of scientists to study all the data on silicone implants. It took them until December 1998 to do so. And guess what: instead of returning with the opinion that implants cause illness, as the court expected, they concluded there was no evidence that implants cause illness! The scary websites don't mention that either.

You have to ask yourself and your surgeon some questions: First, ask yourself if implants are bad, why is it that of patients whose implants were put in between 1962 and 1992, 96% would do it again? And then ask your plastic surgeon, what are the reasons that the other 4% would not do it again?

The best advice: read everything (both good and bad) that you can find; make certain your surgeon is certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery; be sure you and your surgeon are communicating well and clearly; be sure your surgeon will be doing the surgery; be certain you are hearing about all the options; be sure you can follow all instructions completely. Then make your decision with a clear mind!

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