Sentences with phrase «gel breast implants»
Defense of Corning in Massachusetts state and federal court product liability actions alleging rheumatologic and immunologic disorders allegedly caused by silicone gel breast implants
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The FDA states that, «although there are currently no established methods for accurately detecting silicone levels in breast milk, a study measuring silicon (one component in silicone) levels did not indicate higher levels in breast milk from women with silicone gel - filled implants when compared to women without implants.»
There are two different types of implants that are used during a breast implant procedure: silicone gel and saline solution.
Silicone chemistry is extremely complex; the polymer involved in the covering and the interior of the breast implant consists of a polymer of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms with methyl groups attached to the oxygen groups (methyl polydimethylsiloxane).19 The length of the polymer determines whether it is a solid, gel, or liquid.
Approximately 800000 to 1 million women in the United States have received breast implants containing silicone (elemental silicon with chemical bonds to oxygen) in the implant envelope or in the envelope and the interior gel.
I later found out from another plastic surgeon that the implant had not just «contracted» (which was a very typical outcome) but it had also ruptured — so I had unknowingly fed my baby girl breast milk that may have been tainted by silicone gel and the many chemicals that are used to make the silicone!
Reconstruction operations with implants involves the use of prosthetic breasts made of saline or silicone gel, while reconstruction using the patient's own abdominal tissue, known as autologous transfer, requires additional incisions, harvesting of tissue and transplantation of that to the breast.
To test if there's any scientific credibility to this, Christopher Pannucci, a plastic surgeon at the University of Utah, and his team analysed bullets shot through saline breast implants into ballistics gel — a substance designed to mimic human tissue.
When these blocks were placed underneath large saline breast implants, the distance the bullets travelled into the gel was reduced by an average of 8 centimetres, or 20 per cent (Journal of Forensic Sciences, doi.org/b9m2).