When was breast implants created

So I said, OK. When they put the implants in they said: 'Do you want to see them? You put it in me, and it'll be out of sight, out of mind. My theory was that if you think you've got something foreign inside you you're just going to worry about it.

The year history of breast implants had begun, a history of controversy and success. What no one knew back then was just how phenomenally popular breast augmentation surgery would become — the last available figures from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery show it was the most popular form of cosmetic surgery in the US in , with , augmentations performed.

It is also the most popular cosmetic operation in the UK. It's estimated between 5 and 10 million women worldwide have had the surgery, many for cosmetic reasons, and a significant proportion for reconstruction following a mastectomy, or for transsexual people transitioning from male to female. But concern around them has never abated, with the most recent row being one of the most disturbing, and vexed. In , after concerns about ruptures in implants made by French company Poly Implant Prosthesis PIP , it emerged the company had been filling them not with the medical-grade silicone that had won them a CE mark, and the right to sell them in Europe — but industrial-grade silicone, otherwise used to make mattresses.

In December last year it was reported that the faulty implants had been tentatively linked to cancer in France. Eight women whose PIP implants had failed had had the disease, including one who suffered a rare form of lymphoma and died. Street protests began in France, the French state health service said it would pay to remove the implants , and similar calls began here.

Last week, the health secretary Andrew Lansley said free removal, but not replacement, would be offered for women who had the surgery on the health service most of them mastectomy patients , and suggested that private clinics had the moral duty to do the same. Some clinics are refusing to replace the implants free of charge, and Catherine Kydd, who discovered her PIP implants had ruptured in , has set up a Facebook page for those affected; she's outraged the NHS isn't carrying out a full programme of removals and replacements for all the women involved.

Her initial breast implant operation was carried out by a private clinic in , after she started feeling self-conscious about her breasts, following the birth of her two children. In September , Kydd found a lump in her breast.

There is a history of breast cancer in her family, and her GP sent her off to have ultrasound. Finally, after much back and forth, they agreed to remove them for free in July They were replaced with another brand of implants. I've got burning in my arm, in my armpit, every day. Kydd wishes she had never had implants, and her story raises a familiar question.

Why do women risk it? Of all the areas of the body that could be modified, or augmented, why are the breasts the focus of such an enormous proportion of cosmetic surgeries? As the PIP story has unfolded, some have commented that they can understand why mastectomy patients might want the operation, but not women who have it solely for cosmetic reasons.

This seems slightly disingenuous. Because if it is, of course, understandable that someone might want a breast that had been removed to be reconstructed, it's surely not such an enormous leap to imagine why someone with very small breasts might want the operation too.

Still, the numbers remain astonishing, a testament to discomfort and self-loathing, to a culture that has come to see bodies — especially women's bodies — as endlessly open to modification.

The fact that the rise of breast implant surgery has taken place in tandem with the rise of second-wave feminism, only makes this more perplexing. Monroe biographer Anthony Summers says people he interviewed for his book, who knew her well - including Billy Travilla, who was both her dressmaker and one of her lovers - said she had no reason at all to have any breast enhancement. The sponge technique worked well at first, but did not last - the sponges soon shrank, and became "hard as baseballs" says Biggs.

Silicone was also a material of the moment. It is not in the US, though, that the silicone was first used for breast enlargement, but in Japan, where it was tried out by prostitutes. Eager to do better trade with the occupying US forces, who they presumed preferred a larger chest, they experimented by injecting silicone - stolen from the docks of Yokohama - direct into the breast.

These injections turned out to have a nasty side-effect known as "silicone rot", in which gangrene set in around the injection site. The early silicone breast implants pioneered in the US fortunately avoided this hitch, but were not entirely problem-free.

Hematoma, where blood collects in a swelling, was one early difficulty. There were cases of infections too, and also "fibrous capsular contractions" where a scar would form, making the implant hard. There have been many advances over the decades, like 3D-imaging, and implants that are increasingly rupture-proof - and the range has widened.

Now we have over choices," says Biggs. Around the world, breast enlargement is now the second-most popular cosmetic surgery operation, after liposuction the removal of fat. And the number of deadly complications eventually caused Congress to ban silicone injection in An underground industry of silicone gel injection still exists, but women and transgender individuals should steer clear of this potentially deadly practice. Silicone-filled breast implants were invented in , first implanted in , and since then they have remained the most popular choice for breast enlargement because of their great, long-lasting results and high safety record.

Concerns about the safety of breast implants led to their withdrawal from the market in , but none of these concerns were able to be documented and the FDA re-approved them for cosmetic breast augmentation in It also means that finally women can have surgical breast augmentation knowing that they fully understand the possible complications of the procedure.

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The most popular options available are breast augmentation and […]. We want you to get the most out of your consultation. If at all possible, it is best to make arrangements for small children to stay home rather than having them join us for your appointments. Below is a brief summary of its history. In , paraffin injections, often a combination of petroleum jelly and olive oil, were used. This, unfortunately, resulted in the formation of hard masses or paraffinomas from foreign body reactions, as well as inflammatory reactions, tissue necrosis, and draining sinus tracts.

More serious complications included pulmonary embolism and blindness due to cerebral embolism. As a result of the complications related to paraffin, a search for an alternative substance resulted in the use of liquid silicone injections. Overall these were not well tolerated and produced silicone granulomas resulting in painful nodularity and inflammation of the surrounding breast tissue.

Other complications from silicone injections included skin slough, migration of silicone along fascial planes, granulomatous hepatitis, embolism, and even death. As many women have had this procedure, and such injections are still practiced in parts of Asia, these images occasionally are seen.

Mammography and ultrasound in these patients is a challenge, as the numerous opaque masses from the silicone granulomas are difficult to differentiate from other masses.

In , polyvinyl alcohol sponge prostheses were cut into the desired shape and surgically placed. The sponge prostheses were subject to organization by host fibrous tissue, causing shrinkage and undesirable change in the texture of the prostheses.