Saline Breast Implants - Advantages
1. Breast augmentation with saline implants will enlarge the breasts, creating what today's society considers a more voluptious and appealing appearance.
2. In the case of mastectomy patients, saline breast implants can create a new "breast" to replace the one(s) that was lost. [In the case of patients who have had or will have radiation, caution should be used because of the thinning of the tissue caused from radiation therapy.]
3. Having larger breasts boosts the self-esteem of some women, giving them more self-confidence.
4. Low-cut dresses, bathing suits, and other revealing clothing looks better--in some opinions.
5. Some women feel larger breasts will make them more attractive to the opposite sex.
6. Some women seek the attention that larger breasts attracts.
Saline Breast Implants - Disadvantages
1. Saline breast implants are not lifetime devices,and may need to be replaced (even without systemic problems) more than once a decade. According to current statistics from the FDA, 20% of of the patients implanted will require further surgery within five years of implantation. With each additional surgery, breast tissue is lost.
2. Women who have saline breast implants are at risk of acquiring a variety of infections from their implants which may occur at any time, including fungal and antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. Mold, mildew, algae, bacteria, and fungi have all been found in explanted saline implants according to Dr. Pierre Blais, a pathologist in Canada, who has examined thousands of explanted implants.
3. Implant rupture can go undetected for years, and silicone (from the silicone envelope) is known to migrate through the lymph system, cross the blood-brain barrier, and the placental barrier. It has been found in the brain, spinal fluid, ovaries, liver, muscles, and other organs of implanted women.
4. Most implanted women experience capsular contracture which is caused from thick fibrous tissue that the body builds around the implants in an effort to wall-off the invading foreign body. This can be very uncomfortable and often causes severe pain. The capsule causes the implants to become very hard and causes severe deformity over time.
5. Many women who have saline breast implants have reported a change in breast sensation. Often numbness and loss of sensation are experienced, especially with the nipples. Sometimes, the opposite is true and there is an ucomfortable hypersensitivy.
6. Many women with saline breast implants have experienced severe necrosis (decayed and destroyed tissue) and other forms of breast tissue loss.
7. Many women with saline breast impants have experienced serious autoimmune diseases post-implantation including: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Scleroderma, Multiple Sclerosis, Sjøgrens Syndrome (severe dry mouth, eyes, etc.), and Lupus. Those women with pre-existing compromised immune systems are now warned to avoid implants.
9. Disproportional numbers of women with saline breast implants have reported neurological and cognitive complications, as well as endocrine disruption including hysterectomies, miscarriage.
10. Saline breast implants can easily rupture during mammography.
11. Saline breast implants make routine self-exams and mammography more difficult. More views are necessary meaning additional radiation each time.
12. Children born of women with saline breast implants have experienced the same autoimmune conditions and this situation has been seriously inadequately studied.
13. Saline breast implants often negatively affect the ability to produce milk for breast-feeding.
14. Health insurance carriers are routinely denying coverage for implanted (and explanted) women.
15. The envelope of the saline breast implant contains over 40 different chemicals and metals which are toxic to the human body. Many of these chemicals are carcinogens and neurotoxins.
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