Risks

Now, ‘ladies first’ for breast augmentation. Let’s talk about the risk factors first. The FDA has never approved silicon implants because they have never proven to be safe. The FDA has approved only two companies, Mentor and Inamed as the most reasonably safe saline implants for most women for the three years they were studied. The FDA found about forty percent of breast augmentations and seventy percent of mastectomy reconstructions have at least one serious complication within three years of receiving the saline implants. Within ten to twelve years most women will need additional surgery. Complications include breast pain and hardness and numbness in the nipple that could last for years or even be permanent. Serious complications are toxic shock syndrome, implants breaking thru the skin or the skin in that area dying. There have been rare cases of gangrene and death as a result.