0 an object like a bag filled with a liquid substance that is put under the skin of a woman's chest to change the size and shape of her breast, or to replace a breast removed for medical reasons:
To find out more about the risks and potential benefits of breast implants, read our feature story.
Thousands of women received breast implants for reconstruction following mastectomy due to cancer.
There is a risk of the breast implant rupturing in the body.
The new silicone gel-filled breast implant was not approved as safe.
The correction of capsular contracture might require the surgical removal (release) of the capsule, or the removal, and possible replacement, of the breast implant, itself.
We record the number of episodes in which a breast implant was inserted, the number of implants removed and the number of revision operations.
Furthermore, concern about the failure of a breast implant may lead to conditions related to stress, such as peptic ulcers.
Breast implant advertising specifically - indeed implant advertising of any kind - should be regulated.
