I thought this was an interesting read that women in India are opting for breast implant surgery..

To Your Health,

Dr. Sinclair 

http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/health-care/2011062790377.htm

Issues of feminism and attractive looks rule the roost for majority of Indian women nowadays with beautiful faces peeking at them everywhere from the world of TV and films. Many women feel that their breasts do not fully express their feminism and therefore make them feel less attractive.

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This report is interesting because it’s states some rather obvious facts but also addresses some myths about breast implant dangers , always remember that breast implants be it saline or silicone are a foreign object in the body and of course they aren’t meant to be lifetime devices or solutions to your ideal breast size. 

Have a read below!

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You can’t keep breast implants for life, FDA says – Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/22/us-fda-implants-idUSTRE75L3NA20110622

The agency said the studies overall confirmed its decision that implants can be used safely, but noted the conclusions could be limited because some women dropped out.

“The key point is that breast implants are not lifetime devices,” said Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. “The longer you have the implant, the more likely you are to have complications.”

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This has to be one of the most concerning and ridiculous reasons for wanting to get breast surgery, having been a board certified plastic surgeon for over 20 years I have done a fair share of cosmetic consultations. When I hear from patients  the reasons for them  wanting to have breast surgery, it’s reasons like this that concern me very much.

To Your Health,

Dr. Alexander Sinclair  

Bigger breasts, bigger salary? Or a feminist nightmare…
http://www.cityam.com/lifestyle/bigger-breasts-bigger-salary-or-feminist-nightmare

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I was catching up on plastic surgery news and came across this very well worded article that provides some excellent practical guidelines for breast implants.

Have a read because Dr Saia hit the nail on the head when it comes to those wanting to make you think breast implants are wildly dangerous for you.

To Your Health,

Dr Sinclair 

Reader Question: Mold in Saline Breast Implants?
http://www.cosmeticsurgerytruth.com/blog/?p=11778

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Hello, I’m Dr. Alexander Sinclair, your board-certified plastic surgeon. I was recently reading this interesting article in Wired Magazine and Today, I would like to talk about some exciting developments on the horizon of plastic surgery.  You might not know this, but plastic surgeons have been on the forefront of many medical changes.  As a matter of fact, the specialty is all about change.  Changing people and furthering new developments.

That’s sort of the piece of property that plastic surgeons own.  In the 50’s, plastic surgeons were the first doctors to do kidney transplants.  Right now, plastic surgery teams are working on stem cell research.  What they’re finding is that stem cells occur in fatty tissue.  Much more frequently that had been thought.

As a matter of fact, you may find the stem cell in every 200 cells in your adipose or fat cell area compared to one in a few thousand in blood or bone marrow.  That means that that is a really right place to find stem cells.

But what does a stem cell do and what is that?  We hear about it all the time.  Think about this.  You have over 200 different types of cell types in your body.  For example, you have bat cells and you have bone cells and you have muscle cells and kidney cells.  A stem cell is the type of cell that when properly stimulated can develop into any of those cell lines.  That’s pretty incredible because if you think about it, one of the real problems with aging or disease or trauma is the loss of certain cells.

For example, if you have a heart attack, you’re going to lose heart cells.  Well, there’s no way the body can make new heart cells unless a used to unlock that secret process and stem cells can do that.  Now, the applicability here in the plastic surgery world, one of the early applicabilities is for breast reconstruction and even breast augmentation.  Because if we can take fat cells and that is the stem cell and then stimulate that stem cell and program it to replicate and build a breast, we’ll be able to build breasts with your own tissue.

That’s an exciting concept and it’s being done.  And it’s not just being done in the labs, but it’s being done in experimental settings around the world right now in Europe, Asia, and in the United States.  There are programs underway to reconstruct breasts using a person’s own fat by stimulating stem cells.  We’re not ready to do this on an everyday basis for breast augmentations, but I would say, within my lifetime it will happen.

So stay tuned.  I want to do an update on this because this area is changing rapidly and there are many applications of this stem cell therapy for plastic surgery.  I’m Dr. Alexander Sinclair, your board-certified plastic surgeon.

To Your Beauty,
Dr. Alexander Sinclair

For more information please visit:
Beverly Hills Breast Augmentation

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If you wish to read the article that led me to write this for you you can visit Wired Magazine

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I think it’s sad that the media blows rare incidents like this one, completely out of proportion! The Dr. Fiorillo made me proud by highlighting the plain truth that breast surgery is one of the safest procedures in cosmetic surgery….

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I found this story to breast surgery to be very fascinating, have a look at the real reasons why some women go through such a cosmetic produce….

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My Grandmother Encouraged Me to Get Plastic Surgery

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Nov 24th 2010 By alyson gerber

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My Grandmother Encouraged Me to Get Plastic Surgery

On “Good Morning America” today, 18-year-old Caitlin Clemens shared why she had a breast augmentation to help ease her physical and emotional insecurities. Flashing beneath images of Clemens in a hospital gown was the question “How Young Is Too Young?”

The show also questioned the fact that Clemens’ mom had gone to the same doctor, for the same surgery. Was that right? Of course, there is no right answer to either of these questions, but I can tell you that when I decided to have a breast reduction at age 18 — for many of the same reasons — it was my grandmother who first suggested it, and it saved my life. I was a tall, lanky kid, until my chest sprouted into 34Es. At 5-foot-7, 120 pounds, I was carrying around cantaloupes, each melon the size of my head. They chafed together leaving red welts inside my cleavage, weighed on my petite back and nearly knocked me out during cross-country practice at my small New England boarding school, which had a three-season athletic requirement. “Hey, Gerber,” the basketball team captain yelled out to me. “You have a lot of extra baby food. Can I have some of that milk?” His hyena laughter rang in my ears. I bolted to the nearest women’s bathroom, tears streaming down my cheeks. Despite the sexuality radiating mixed messages from my upper body, I had never taken off my shirt in front a boy, much less myself. I was too disgusted to glance down in the shower. It wasn’t just men who used my chest to deflate me. After practice, surrounded by stick-straight all-American blondes, a female teammate with B-cups turned to me and said, “I think you actually look at lot skinner than you are, because your tits are so big.”

I hid my breasts under sports bras and wrapped them tightly beneath layers of packing tape, preferring a uni-boob to the humiliation of looking down and seeing my cleavage creased together like two pieces of fatty chicken meat. I believed my enormous chest was my fault, and if I worked hard enough I could manage my bra size. At 16, I mistakenly believed my ballooning bust would shrink if I were emaciated. But when I returned to school 20 pounds lighter, after a summer in Israel spent eating oranges and Diet Coke exclusively, I was still suffocating. Although my breasts never changed, something else did: my resolve. The less I ate, I discovered, the more attention I attracted for something other than my boobs. Someone even reported me to the campus therapist. She sat next to me in a long linen dress the color of hay and said, “I’m concerned about your health.” But I didn’t have eating issues; anorexia was never my problem of choice. Then one day, during a three-mile trail race, my legs gave into the pressure. With each pounding step, I had felt shocks of pain rushing up my shins. Now I could feel myself slowing down until I was no longer in motion, watching other runners pass me. I rested on the ground in the woods, unable to stand up, as the last ponytail waved goodbye. The stress of my unhappiness had literally caused cracks in my frail frame, deep fractures in both my legs. As my surgeon father held the shattered black and white images up to the light, he said, “Maybe you weren’t built to be a runner.” To me, his words were a reminder that no matter what I did, I was stuck inside a body I couldn’t stand. At the time, I thought breast reductions were only for old women, like my grandmother, until she pulled me into the bathroom on the first night of Passover. “Let me show you my breasts,” she offered. Without waiting for my response, her lacey bra was draped around her waist, and two perfect C cups pointed at me. “Not one scar,” she bragged. “Lot’s of vitamin E and good skin.” “What did they look like before?” I asked. “Yours.” It was the first time I’d considered surgery. I was desperate to rid myself of the massive inheritance that had weighed on my back and self-image. I was 18 years old, a freshman in college, when I found the courage to ask my father for help. “Please, Dad. I need to get rid of my breasts,” I told him. It was the only time I ever referred to them in front of him. “I’ll set up a consultation as soon as I can,” he said calmly. “I don’t need to consult anyone.” “There are risks — scars, loss of sensation, a 40 percent chance of not being able to breast-feed,” he ticked them off, methodically. “I don’t care. I want surgery,” I blurted. Two months later, I waited behind a white curtain in the surgical wing of Massachusetts General Hospital, fidgeting with my long gown. I shut my eyes and tried to remember a time before my chest consumed me, before I hated my body. I was convinced that all I had to do was this, and I’d be happy. I couldn’t block out the loud hospital sounds — clinking metal instruments and nurse’s sneakers squeaking against the linoleum floors. I jumped when a pretty nurse pulled back the protective curtain. “You’ll be fine,” my mother said as she kissed me on the forehead. My father patted my back silently. I woke up in the recovery room staring at a fuzzy woman. I knew it was my mom because the room smelled like Chanel No. 5. I felt safe again. After four days of pills and sleep, I stood topless in my parents’ bathroom watching my mother remove white gauze, pulling off individual squares crusted with pus and hardened blood. I didn’t recognize the small swollen breasts that fit perfectly inside the cup of my hands. They felt like a burden. There were lines of stitches circling my newly carved nipples and a mixture of brown and purple psychedelic bruises. “Much better,” Mom proclaimed, looking at me in the mirror as if I’d done something important. I knew I had too. She placed her delicate hands on my bare shoulders. “I had no idea you were so thin.” Immediately, my mother saw a change in me. In fact, everyone noticed — everyone but me. I’d put all my chips in the reduction basket, hoping surgery would instantly change the way I saw myself. When it was over, I was supposed to be happy and perfect, but I wasn’t yet. In my mind, I was still top-heavy, no matter what. Now it’s been eight years since my surgery. At 26, I no longer wake up and dread getting dressed. I own bras in colors other than flesh, nude and taupe, and sometimes I don’t even bother with one. The physical scars have faded to the point where I hardly notice them. For the first time, I am consistently running every other day, careful with my legs, which still ache in the center of my shin when I’ve gone too far. A few months ago, I walked into the lobby of my building, sweating after four miles in the sun. While I waited for the elevator, I overheard a petite woman talking with her friend about her new exercise program. “I definitely feel a lot better. Not as good as that girl,” she said, pointing in my direction. When I turned around to a get a look at the great body, I realized no one else was there. “You really didn’t know I was talking about you?” she asked me as we shuffled into the elevator. “I wish I could see whatever it is you just saw,” I confided. “Look again,” she smiled, as the doors opened onto my floor. I haven’t seen the petite woman since that day, but somehow her kind and unexpected compliment has stayed with me, counteracting the tape that had been playing on repeat in my head since puberty. She’d never seen the other me, while I hadn’t allowed myself to see anything else. So, I decided to follow her advice. I pulled out the size-10 Betsey Johnson dress I wore to my high school graduation — the only one I could find that covered me completely — and put it on over my gym clothes in front of the full-length mirror. As the fabric draped off my slender frame, bunching around my small chest, I hardly remembered the insecure person it had once belonged to — the teenage version of myself I’d found the strength to save.

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Medicare Should Fund Breast Enlargement Surgery in Australia

by Rathi Manohar on  November 22, 2010 at 7:04 PM

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When hundreds of women make use of taxpayer funds for breast enlargement surgery, there should be many more who can benefit too, on medical grounds, suggest surgeons in Australia.

According to the doctors, expanding taxpayer-funded operations to flat-chested women will boost self-esteem.

Medicare claims for breast augmentation have grown by more than 50 per cent during the past five years. Women who had lost their breasts due to diseases such as cancer also fell into the category, but were included in a raft of other items on the Medical Benefits Scheme. The Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons has asked the Federal Government to consider extending the tax-payer-funded benefits to flat-chested women, who suffer what is known in the industry as ‘hypomastia’. Society president Peter Callan said women might feel a “loss of self-esteem due to undeveloped breasts”. “There are a certain number of women with significant hypomastia who would benefit from breast augmentation from both a psychological and physical perspective,” News.com.au quoted him as saying. Breast implants for hypomastia were included under Medicare in the 1970s and 1980s, but the legislation was changed and the item number removed about 10 years ago.

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The crazy measures some people turn too…

Bogus Plastic Surgeon Carried Out Breast Exams In Bar – Medical News Today

“breast augmentation” – Google News

Bogus Plastic Surgeon Carried Out Breast Exams In Bar Medical News Today Kristina Ross, 37, fooled the women with her medical jargon, probably picked up during her own breast augmentation procedures required for her sex change. … DOCTOR GIVES BREAST EXAMS IN BARWeekly World News (satire) all 2 news articles »

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This is ridiculous, not all breast augmentation surgeries will draw such attention. I believe many plastic surgeons have forgotten the founding reasons behind why women get breast augmentation in the first place! 

Dealing with Attention Following Breast Augmentation – PR-USA.net (press release)

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Dealing with Attention Following Breast Augmentation PR-USA.net (press release) If you plan to have a breast augmentation, you have many things to consider. Among them is how you will deal with attention following your breast … and more »

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Injecting one’s fat into the breast area to increase size is known as “fat grafting” or “autologous breast augmentation with fat transfer”.  Fat grafting is not new, in fact in the 1890’s doctors were using fat grafts to reconstruct breasts. Today fat grafting for cosmetic breast enlargement is controversial. It is not clear how long the fat survives. Doctors should be cautious about injecting fat in women with increased risks for breast cancer. The best advice is to see your plastic surgeon to get information about safe, reliable and long lasting techniques to give you the result you want.

The strength and movement of the pectoral muscle, which is the large muscle on the chest that flexes and rotates the shoulder, did not significantly change during the study period. There was no change in muscle flexion (bending), extension or raising the arms when preoperative muscle function was compared with the three-month and six-month evaluation periods. In addition, there was no significant difference in muscle function regardless of implant size.In assessing sensory changes of the breast, both pressure and vibratory testing were performed. Results from the study indicated a significant change in breast sensation at three months postoperatively but the sensation returned by six months, indicating that the change was temporary while the tissue surrounding the breast healed. There was no correlation stated with size of implant or surgical incision.

This is welcome news for all yoga practicing, treadmill running, tennis and golf players. Your performance in the gym shouldn’t suffer and you should be as sensitive as before.

Breast-feeding is known to possess nutritional and immunologic properties superior to those found in infant formulas. Breast-feeding seems to be particularly protective against some of the common childhood conditions such as eczema, otitis media, and iron-deficiency anemia, and is beneficial to neurodevelopment in premature infants. Also, there are substantial health benefits of breast-feeding for the mother and possibly for the whole family. Millions of silicone breast implants have been placed for either reconstructive or cosmetic surgeries. Many of the women with breast implants will become pregnant after their surgery.  Women with silicone implants may be apprehensive and confused over whether it is safe to breast feed.

Mothers with breast implants may decide not to breast feed their infants because of the mothers silicone getting into their breast milk.  A study by Dr. John Semple published in The Journal of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons should help them in their decision making. The research shows that when you compare women with breast implants to women who do not have breast implants there is no difference in silicon levels in the breast milk or in blood. Silicon levels in store bought cow’s milk was 15 times higher than in the milk of women with breast implants. Silicon levels in many commercially made infant nutrition formulas was often 80 times higher than the levels in the milk of women with breast implants!

Of course the choice is up to the woman, but this information that women with silicone breast implants have less silicon in their milk than in infant formulas coupled with the health, emotional and developmental benefits of breast feeding makes the choice easier.