breast implants
One of the most popular forms of cosmetic surgery is the female breast implant. They are a popular option for women who are unhappy with the size of their breast and wish to increase them through surgical means. The practice of surgically altering the size of women’s breasts with the use of implants has been around for many years and one of the first documented cases occurred in 1895. These earliest examples of breast implants as a form of cosmetic surgery were primitive and frequently had disastrous results. Breast implants in their modern form were initially developed in the early sixties and have become one of the most common forms of cosmetic surgery since then.
During the earliest development of the modern breast implant, as with most forms of cosmetic surgery at this time, public opinion was low. Cosmetic surgery and especially breast implants were shunned by many and considered to be extremely tasteless examples of vanity for vanity’s sake. However since these early days the breast implant and many other forms of cosmetic surgery have become prolific and accepted into mainstream society. The proliferation of the breast implant has large been caused by the reduced costs and advances made in the technology and techniques used to perform the procedure and the breast implant is no longer solely restricted to extremely rich and famous. Many people are now able to afford cosmetic surgery and clinics and doctors specialising in breast implant surgery have experienced a boom in the number of clients in recent years.
Despite increased mainstream acceptance of cosmetic surgery and breast implants in particularly, this does not mean that they are immune to controversy. There are numerous accounts by women who have experienced botched breast enlargement surgery and it only takes a quick search of the internet to find some pretty unsettling images that are likely to put you of the idea of cosmetic surgery for life. Many women, especially those who travel abroad for a cut price breast enlargement will often be left with far from satisfactory results and in some extreme cases patients have been severely disfigured or left with life threatening infections as a result of a botched breast enlargement. Capsular contracture is one of the complications that can arise from a breast enlargement surgery when collagen fibers are formed around the implant by the body as a response to the presence of a foreign object, sometimes these fibers can exert enough pressure to rupture the implant and this can be very painful and distressing for the patient.