Silicone Breast Implants

After a 14 year ban, Silicone Breast Implants are back. The plastic surgery community and many, many women are incredibly excited — and then of course there are the manufacturers.

ABC News Coverage

As a relatively good yardstick of the buzz being developed, one can always look at Google trends to see how people are searching for Silicone Breast Implants and Silicone Implants.

As you can see, there is a big spike around the time of the FDA announcement for both Silicone related searches and plain old “breast implants” searches.

It’s pretty clear this is a big deal.

Among the benefits of silicone implants is they are more “realistic”, and due to their structure are more believable in slimmer women.

Because saline implants lack the gel-ness, if you will, you can sometimes see their bag through the skin if the patient doesn’t have significant flesh to cover them.

For this and a number of reasons, there has been a long wait for Silicone Breast Implants to come back and I’ll be posting occasionally about the news and latest data.

Thanks for your interest!