You will not surprise anyone with plastic surgery: rhinoplasty, mammoplasty or liposuction have become something ordinary and provided.Instagram models have been making barter breasts, and their subscribers for years, they have accumulated money to make a dream figure in some local surgeon.
But this was not always the case.Even in the middle of the last century, the surgery to enlarge the mammary glands was not only inaccessible to 90% of the population, but also dangerous.
We talked to a plastic surgeon and found out what has changed in plastic surgery over the last few decades.
How did it start
Beautiful female breasts have always caused the pleasure of men and the envy of women, so from ancient times girls have been interested in the question of maintaining the form and increasing the size of their advantages.
A few centuries ago, this was physically impossible because surgeons did not have the methods or material required to enlarge the mammary glands.Late XIX surgeons - Early XX centuries tried to give the breast shape with different 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 Japanese prostitutes who wanted to attract the military who had suffered after wounds.
Beauty required a sacrifice and was not without them: some time after surgery, women began necrosis of soft tissues and often such cases end with breast amputation or death.
The story of exactly silicone implants began in 1962, when the mothers of six children Timmy Jin Lindsay increased their breasts by one size in two hours.The operation was successful and the woman is still alive.She is 83 years old now.
Since then, the technology for enlarging the mammary glands with the help of silicone implants has developed only.
Are silicone breasts a curse?
As the procedure became more or less accessible, women not only wanted to change the shape of the breasts, but also to increase the size.We all remember the unsuccessful operations of celebrities in the early 2000s, when the inappropriate dimensions spoiled the girls' figures.
The era of vulgar "silicone valleys" has already passed and now women are approaching the issue of breast plastic more meaningfully.
The expression "silicone breasts" is a very imaginary opposite of the "natural breasts" expression.Fortunately, the greater part of modern patients reach a plastic surgeon not for volume, but for the shape, behind the natural shape of the breast.And although the material of the implants is the same silicone, the safety and quality of the last generations of implants are incomparably higher.
According to statistics, patients from 27 to 42 years after the birth of one or more children who want to restore breast shape after lactation, most often turn to the plastic surgeon.
The second most frequency of patients category patients are young patients between the ages of 18 to 27 years who are not satisfied with the original form or size of the breast.
As for the reconstructive operations after the breast amputation as a result of oncology, in most cases medical cancer institutions participate in this area.The modern approach includes simultaneous mastrastralia and breast reconstruction.That is, not always breast cancer leads to amputation.Surgical surgery to remove the breast is less as radiation therapy works more effectively.
Cancer because of implants is a myth?
There is still an opinion that implantation can cause breast cancer and this fear is not caused.It is a fact that in 1992 doctors were suspected that silicone provoked autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis or breast cancer.
Therefore, a ban on such operations has been introduced in many countries for a long time.But in 2006, the moratorium was removed, as numerous studies confirm the safety of silicone prostheses.
To date, it is believed that if the breast enlargement surgery has undergone without disorders, then the risk of breast cancer is minimal.
In addition to oncology, many girls fear that implants can get worse and should replace them, but plastic surgeons say this is another myth.
The most unpleasant and funny myth in our industry is that when you fly an airplane, implants increase in volume and can burst.But this myth has already become a motor.Most of all girls are afraid of the negative health effects, such as the inability to breastfeed or the need to replace the implants after the expiration date expires.But modern implants materials are not subject to life changes and it is not necessary to change without special medical indications.
Where is it better to do?
Despite the fact that plastic surgery is a relatively young science, great success has been achieved in this direction in the last few decades.
As for mammoplasty, it has become one of the most popular plastic surgery around the world.It gained signs of a certain routine, on the one hand, on the other, the work of the operation was constantly improved, new techniques, technologies and materials have emerged.
This made the maximum maximum the risk of possible complications and adverse effects in order to obtain the most renowned and permanent results to develop an individual selection algorithm for each particular patient.
Currently, both abroad and well developed all spheres of aesthetic surgery, including mammoplasty.
The variety of interventions, new technologies, modern equipment are very widely represented.
And in 5-10 years in plastic surgery we will see even more development.
The future is already emerging here and now.Cell technology, tissue engineering (when grown tissue complexes), 3D organs and tissue printing is no longer a fantasy but reality.However, the basic principle in medicine is "do not harm".Even before being introduced into a wide clinical practice, every new technology goes a long way.All studies and tests must meet the most important criteria - security and efficiency