With Breast implant surgery, a woman can have that full and youthful breasts that turn men’s head even from miles away, but scientists have confirmed that the procedure may result in adverse effects and possibly death in some cases.
Women with the giant and robust breast are idolized not by men alone as fashion magazines and papers love to splash those boobs all over their papers; the big boobs entertainers such as Cossy Orjiakor, Sikirat Sindodo, Mercy Johnson, Yvonne Jegede, Jennifer Eliogu and a host of others often get more hype for their endowment rather than their talent, little wonder the rate of breast implant surgeries has exploded over the past decade, with over 5 million recipient all over the world, as reported by American Food and Drug Administration FDA.
According to a new data released by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, breast surgery is adjudged the most popular plastic surgery after Lipoplasty (suction-assisted fat removal) with a year record of 316,848 surgeries in America in 2011 alone, and 11,123 in UK. This is despite the PIP implant scandal reported by BBC in June, 2012 in which a silicone implant made by a French company, Poly Implants Prostheses (PIP), was discovered to be industrial grade with abnormally high risk of rupturing.
Studies have shown that Industrial silicone, if ruptured can penetrate the blood stream and may be hazardous to health. About 50,000 British women were believed to have received the implant, the company boss has since been sentenced to four years imprisonment for fraud and the product banned. But this has not deterred women from the procedure as report from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) shows a 13 percent rise after the scandal, from 2012 to 2013. Nigerian women are not left out of the craze with celebrities such as Modupe Ozolua CEO Body Enhancement, steering the wheel in cosmetic surgery and being a receipient of implant herself. Also Karen Igho, a onetime Big Brother African BBA winner openly admitting recently to having a fake boob in her twitter page. Although there are no documented statistics of breast implant surgeries in Nigeria, Dr, Bolaji Mofikoya, a consultant plastic surgeon at Lagos University Teaching Hospital told National Mirror that breast implant is also gaining popularity in Nigeria particularly among the h i g h l y placed ladies who prefer the private clinics to government hospitals not minding the high cost. While it cost around two fifty to three hundred thousand naira to have a breast implant in LUTH, private clinics such as Georgia Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery by Dr. Stanley Okoro, or Body Enhancement, Would take not less than 1.5 to 2.5 million for the same procedure.
But huge cash is not the only price to pay; risks to consider are:
Possibility of death: Chances are that the implant, depending on the quality might leak into the blood stream and cause death, explains Dr. Mofikoya. He said that although there is no evidence yet that those breast implants cause breast cancer, their presence may hide developing tumours when women undergo X-ray screening with mammograms, so their cancer is more advanced when diagnosed. Aside this, “there may be some possible future hazards to this implants surgeries. In the 1940s for instance, people did not know that smoking can lead to cancer but now scientists have proven it”. However, report by US food and drug administration FDA in 2011 reveals that breast implant exposes women to a low but increased risk of developing a rare type of cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) in the larly breast tissue surrounding the implant.
Breast feeding: Dr Mofikoya says implant might not prevent a woman from breast feeding but no one knows for sure if the implant could possibly leak into the breast milk and get sucked by the child. For instance, silicone breast implant contains platinum which could be harmful if ingested by a baby. Some other studies suggest that implant may prevent a woman from producing milk or interfere with the production of milk.
The need for further surgeries: The US FDA estimates that breast implants should last at least ten years or more, but overtime breast implants may wear out and need to be replaced by surgery. In general, rupture becomes more likely as implants age. Aside rupture, breast implants may change shape, one breast might start to look very different from the other, sometimes the tissues around the implant hardens, a condition called capsular contracture. Surgery is the only way to fix capsular contracture.
Surgical complications: Other complications as published by US FDA and listed in the patient labeling of approved breast implants are surgical infections, bleeding, skin rash, seroma (collection of fluid around the implant), shifting of implants, Hematoma (collection of blood near the surgical site), swelling, calcification (hard lumps under the skin around implant). These can be mistaken for cancer during mammography, resulting in additional surgery.
Changes in appearance and sensation: also breast implant can cause a loss of sensation in the breast and nipples as well as pain, particularly if the incision is done around the edge of the nipple. Dr Mofikoya says that excessive scarring is one major complaint from his clients. Finally, if you have your implant removed and not replaced, you will experience some irreversible changes to your natural breast such as dimpling, puckering, wrinkling, asymmetry and breast tissue loss.
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