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by belladminp
For a long time, many women have had great interest about increasing breast volume to achieve an attractive and very feminine body shape. Furthermore, some women who underwent breast implant surgery, they assure they improved their self-esteem, being evident that this procedure has great impact in people emotional aspects.
Many materials have been used to achieve breast augmentation along history, some of those are: paraffin, liquid silicone, polyethylene and polyurethane among others. Currently, the more used materials are silicone implants, saline implants and fat grafting as they are very save and allow to achieve great results.
Silicone implants are the medical devices I use in most of my patients when they want to have augmentation mammoplasty. These implants are made of cohesive gel which give soft consistency to the breast and allows to obtain the ideal size for each person as they are distributed in a wide volume variety. The concept about breast implants, that needed to be changed every 10 years has been modified thanks to manufacturing advances; although nowadays we know that breast implants are not for live, the time in which they need to be changed has been increased.
It is very important to mention that breast implants don´t alter women breastfeeding capacity and don´t affect the imaging studies that detect breast cancer (ultrasound and mammography), thus, women who underwent implant surgery must carry on with their regular medical evaluations focused on breast cancer prevention.
Although silicone implants are a very save option to increase breast volume, when patients are planning to have augmentation mammoplasty, they must check the type of implant that is going to be used, the implant brand and they should check also all the legal and manufactured requirements.
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