Breast Implants
...s obvious that these women had little concern about their health. Breast implants did not come to America until about the 1960s. Back in 1992 silicone gel implants were banned, due to what is called silicone disease. “Women whose silicone breast implants have ruptured and spread silicone gel beyond the fibrous scar that forms around the implant may be at increased risk for fibromylagia, an FDA study indicates.” (FDA Consumer 5) “A syndrome of musculoskeletal pain, stiffness, and easy fatigability, fibromyalgia (also called fibrositis) is a condition that occurs in women of childbearing age in 80 to 90 percent of cases.” (Vasey and Feldstein 57) The symptoms of silicone disease appear from immediately after surgery to twenty - two years later.The Dangers of Breast Implants Many women will risk the danger of getting breast implants just to feel like they have the perfect body. Today there is so much pressure on women to look a certain way by the constant exposure to ads, pictures, and magazine covers showing the idealized woman. Most women do not even realize the dangers of breast implants. The history of breast implants go back in the mid – to – late 1940s. The first women believed to have their breasts enlarged were Japanese. Liquid silicone gel was injected by syringe directly into the breasts. “Many of these women were prostitutes who had discovered that American servicemen preferred women with larger busts than were common in Japanese women.” (Vasey and Feldstein 16) It wa...