Breast Augmentation – What Are The Facts?

You may have decided to undergo surgery for breast augmentation. It will change your body forever by giving you your ideal perfect breasts.

There are many reasons to get breast augmentation: the purely aesthetic; to rebuild both looks and confidence after a mastectomy; occupation; or to rectify congenital chest wall deformities. Each of these reasons are valid and worth consideration, unfortunately in Great Britain, the state funded health care system (National Health Service) only recognizes two as creditable for funding: mastectomy or congenital wall deformity.

Mastectomy of congenital wall deformities is a procedure of firming of the breasts when they begin to sag. Private hospitals specialized in such surgeries.

You should be fully aware of the procedures involved in it. The surgeons will explain in detail to you about the pre-surgical activities, the surgery and then post-surgery activities and the healing process.

In U.K. there are several private clinics that specialize in these procedures.

The two most commonly used breast implant materials are silicone and saline. A silicone breast implant uses a soft silicone shell filled with viscous silicone gel; a saline breast implant also uses a silicone shell, however instead of silicone gel its filled with a saline solution.

For the past hundred years, before the introduction of these saline and silicone based implants, surgeons have been trying out different ways to fill the breasts and regain the firmness. Vincenz Czerny was the first person to carry out the first breast implant by using benign lymphoma and placed it in the breasts of women which later caused breast tumor.

Breast augmentation has increased in popularity in the last century and everything from ground rubber, polyethylene chips, Terylene wool and even poly vinyl has been used in the quest to improve the look and feel of breast. As the procedure becomes safer and easier it looks like it will continue to rise in prevalence and fashion.