http://www.bodysculptor.com/2008/05/do-breast-implants-have-expiration-date.html

This article was intriguing to me because throughout my sickness, I have met MANY women who got sick from leaking saline in their implants.  First of all, the article says “your implants will eventually degrade and have to be removed” - which is funny because my surgeon and most surgeons, I think - don’t even mention that our implants will be replaced one day. Shouldn’t this be a big part of the pre-op discussion?

The thing that really bothered me was “In the case of saline implants, even a degraded and leaking breast implant will not necessarily have to be removed unless the patient chooses to for cosmetic reasons, as saline leaks have not been shown to cause any serious health risks.” - WOW!! When will all of the women who are sick from leaky, moldy saline be heard and at least part of a statistic and a risk?!?!?

I found this website this morning - http://www.loveyourlook.com/ - And it made me sad that it implies that you have to undergo plastic surgery to “love the way you look”.  You can even create a virtual model of yourself - making your breasts bigger, hips smaller, etc. to show what you would like like after you go under the knife.  They wait till the 8th questions under the top ten to ask “are implants safe“? and then all they do is post several articles about how silicone implants were approved by the FDA. What about all the women who are sick from saline implants? They say you can “feel beautiful and secure” - and some of the women’s blogs say that it was “worth all the aches and pains of the procedure”. It is just sad that our society makes women believe that we have to have big breasts to be beautiful.