You will not surprise anyone with plastic operations: rhinoplasty, mammoplasty or liposuction have become commonplace and granted.Instagram models have been breastfeeding and their subscribers for years, they are accumulating money to make a dream figure in some local surgeon.
But that was not always the case.Even in the middle of the last century, the operation to increase the mammary glands was not only inaccessible to 90% of the population, but also insecure.
We talked to a plastic surgeon and found out what has changed in plastic surgery in recent decades.
How it all started
Beautiful female breasts have always caused men's delight and the envy of women;Therefore, since ancient times, girls have been interested in maintaining the shape and increasing the size of their advantages.
Several centuries ago, this was physically impossible, since surgeons did not have the methods or material needed to increase the mammary glands.The end of the end of the nineteenth - twentieth centuries of the beginning tried to shape the chest with several injections, but this effect was short.
In the 1940s, liquid silicone began to be introduced into the chest.Of particular popularity, this method was in the Japanese prostitutes who wanted to attract the military who underwent treatment after wounds.
Beauty requires sacrifice, and here it was not without them: some time after the operation, women began the necrosis of soft tissues, and often these cases ended with the amputation of the chest or death.
The history of silicone precision implants begins in 1962, when mothers of six children Timmy Jin Lindsay increased their breasts by one size by two hours.The operation was successful and the woman is still alive.Now she is 83 years old.
Since then, the technology of increasing the mammary glands using silicone implants has only developed.
Is silicone breasts a curse?
Once the procedure became more or less available, women wanted not only to change the shape of the chest, but also increase the size.We all remember the unsuccessful celebrity operations in the early 2000s, when the inadequate dimensions spoiled the girls' figures.
The era of vulgar "silicone valleys" has passed, and now women are approaching the question of the plasticism of the breasts more significantly.
The expression “silicone breasts” is a very figurative opposite of the expression “natural breasts”.Fortunately, the vast majority of modern patients come to a plastic surgeon not for volume, but for the form, behind the natural shape of the chest.And while the material of implants is the same silicone, safety and quality of the last generations of implants are incomparably higher.
According to statistics, patients 27 to 42 years after the birth of one or more children who want to restore chest shape after lactation are more often addressed to the plastic surgeon.
The second most frequency of patient patients are 18 to 27 years old who are not satisfied with the original form or breast size.
As for reconstructive operations after breast amputation as a result of oncology, medical cancer institutions are involved in this area in most cases.A modern approach involves simultaneous pastractomy and breast reconstruction.That is, breast cancer does not always lead to amputation.Surgical operations to remove breast become smaller as radiation therapy works more effectively.
Is cancer because of implants a myth?
There is still an opinion that implementation can cause breast cancer, and this fear is not without cause.The fact is that in 1992, doctors suspect that silicone provides autoimmune diseases, for example rheumatoid arthritis or breast cancer.
Therefore, in many countries the ban on such operations has been introduced for a long time.But in 2006, the moratorium was removed, as numerous studies confirmed the safety of silicone prostheses.
So far, it is believed that if the chest increase surgery has passed without violations, the risk of breast cancer is minimal.
In addition to oncology, many girls are afraid that implants can deteriorate and need to replace them, but plastic surgeons say this is another myth.
The most ridiculous and funny myth in our industry is that when flying on a plane, implants increase in volume and can burst.But this myth has already become a bicycle.Most girls fear negative health consequences, for example, the impossibility of breastfeeding or the need to replace implants after the expiration date is over.But modern implant materials are not subject to change throughout their lifetime and need not change without special medical indications.
Where is it better to do?
Despite the fact that plastic surgery is relatively young science, in recent decades in this direction, a great success has been made.
As for mammoplasty, it became one of the most popular plastic surgeries in the world.She acquired signs of a certain routine, on the one hand, on the other, the operation of the operation was continually improved, new techniques, technologies and materials appeared.
This has made it possible to maximize the risk of possible adverse complications and consequences to achieve the most planned and persistent results to develop an individual selection algorithm for each particular patient.
Currently, both abroad and well developed all spheres of cosmetic surgery, including mammoplasty.
The variety of interventions, new technologies and modern equipment are widely represented.
And after 5 to 10 years in plastic surgery, we will see even more development.
The future is already emerging here and now.Cellular technologies, tissue engineering (when fabric complexes are cultivated), 3D printing of organ and tissue is no longer fantasy but reality.However, the main principle of medicine is "not harming".And before introducing wide clinical practice, any new technology goes a long way.All studies and tests must meet the most important criteria - safety and efficiency