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crazyray · 10-15-2003, 05:05 PM

An FDA Panel has recommended lifting the ban on silicone breast implants..

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/...1015_1938.html

I know two sisters, separated by only a couple of years in age. One had a silicone implant placed after losing a breast to cancer. The other had her breasts augmented with silicone implants. The first developed Rheumatoid Arthritis; the second developed Systemic Lupus. These diseases are related and are known as "auto-immune disorders". In both cases the body's immune system is attacking its own tissue as if it were a foreign invader.

Auto-immune diseases tend to occur in families. It is assumed there is some type of inherited tendency. There is NO history of any type of autoimmune disease in anyone else in these sisters' family. Doctors also often point to some kind of "trigger" that causes the immune system to go wacky.

Coincidence? I think not.

Implants are associated with a high incidence of complications including "encapsulation", where the body attempts to wall itself off from the foreign object.

Someone please explain to me why women keep falling for this?

The Real Bingo · 10-15-2003, 05:40 PM

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Originally posted by crazyray
Someone please explain to me why women keep falling for this?

I assume it's because they want bigger breasts..

Knothead · 10-15-2003, 05:47 PM

I sure wish this culture would get off of its "breast fixation"... it's just not healthy.

Literally!

RayH · 10-15-2003, 05:49 PM

It's mostly stupid. But I read somewhere that the whole toxic thing about the implants was actually disproven AFTER the settlement.

The FDA will approve it. Someone will be willing to manufacture it. But the manufacturer may not find any supplier of the raw material. No supplier of the raw material will mark such "medical device grade." Too much risk.

When people started killing themselves with kerosene heaters about twenty-five years ago, the major oil company I worked for quit branding "Pearl Kerosene." The product was still made under different branding "base Kerosene" or "410 Flash Thinner."

The difference? The product was not said to be suitable for indoor kerosene heaters! It kept the lawsuits down!

GohanSSJ · 10-15-2003, 06:14 PM

You know i don't care if they don't harm, or can look natural etc etc, the fact is that they are putting crap in their body so that they are more "attractive"
Well i think breast implants aren't attractive at all.

Uncle Bob · 10-15-2003, 08:03 PM

Silicone augmented ***** look funny.

daveleau · 10-15-2003, 08:15 PM

1st- Most auto-immune diseases are not very well understood. To lump them all into one pile, for any cause, is doing the cause an injustice because it is an argument that can be explained away. There are thousands of auto-immune diseases, and their ratio of hereditary v/s non-hereditary is roughly the same as other types of diseases. We are just beginning to deeply understand the way tissue is recognized by our immune system. The pathology of this system is still decades away from being deeply understood.

I did an internship in college under a plastic surgeon who specialized more in breast reduction than in augmentation, although she did perform the surgery often. She mentioned (this was 7 years ago) that silicone was making a comeback and that it was banned more for bad press than for scientific reasons. She said that there was no scientific basis linking leaking silicone with any diseases. I am no expert on this myself, but she made a lot of sense. She had done silicone in the past and had switched solely to saline implants. The reason that many want silicone to make a comeback is because it feels more natural.

I haven't read much in regards to the scientific articles that caused the banishment of silicone. And personally, I could care less which filler is used in augmentation products. The only thing I do know, is that I have read a lot of incorrect material in these articles. I'd suggest taking them with a huge grain of salt.