You will not surprise anyone with plastic operations: rhinoplasty, mammoplasty or liposuction have become something ordinary and granted.Instagram models make breasts on Barter, and their Subscribers for years, they have been accumulating money to make a dream figure at some local surgeon.
But this 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 unsafe.
We talked with a plastic surgeon and found out what has changed in plastic surgery over the past few decades.
How did it all begin
Beautiful female breasts have always caused the delight of men and the envy of women, so since ancient times, girls have been interested in the issue of maintaining the shape and increasing the size of their advantages.
Several centuries ago, this was physically impossible, since the surgeons did not own the methods or the material necessary to increase the mammary glands.Surgeons of the late XIX - early XX centuries tried to give shape to the chest with various injections, but this effect was short -lived.
In the 40s of the last century, 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 underwent treatment after wounds.
Beauty requires sacrifice, and here it was not without them: some time after the operation, women began necrosis of the soft tissues, and often such cases ended with amputation of the chest or death.
The history of precisely silicone implants begins in 1962, when the mothers of six children Timmy Jin Lindsay increased the breasts by one size in 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?
After the procedure has become more or less available, women wanted to not only change the shape of the chest, but also increase the size.We all remember the unsuccessful operations of celebrities in the early 2000s, when the inappropriate dimensions spoiled the figures of the girls.
The era of the vulgar "silicone valleys" has already passed, and now women are approaching the question of breast plasticism more meaningfully.
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 although the material of implants is the same silicone, the safety and quality of the last generations of implants is incomparably higher.
According to statistics, the patients from 27 to 42 years after the birth of one or more children who want to restore the shape of the chest after lactation are most often addressed to the plastic surgeon.
The second most frequency of patients category of patients are young patients aged 18 to 27 years, who are not satisfied with the original form or breast size.
As for reconstructive operations after the amputation of the breast as a result of oncology, medical oncological institutions are engaged in this area in most cases.A modern approach involves simultaneous mastractomy and breast reconstruction.That is, not always breast cancer leads to amputation.Surgical operations to remove the breast becomes less, since 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 causeless.The fact is that in 1992, doctors have a suspicion that silicone provokes autoimmune diseases, for example, rheumatoid arthritis, or breast cancer.
Because of this, in many countries a ban on such operations was introduced for a long time.But in 2006, the moratorium was removed, as numerous studies have confirmed the safety of silicone prostheses.
To date, it is believed that if the chest enlargement surgery has passed without violations, then the risk of breast cancer is minimal.
In addition to oncology, many girls are afraid that implants may deteriorate and have to replace them, but plastic surgeons say that this is another myth.
The most ridiculous and funny myth in our industry is that when flying on an airplane, implants increase in volume and can burst.But this myth has already become a bike.Most of all girls fear the negative consequences for health, for example, the impossibility of breastfeeding or the need to replace implants after the expiration of the expiration date.But modern materials for implants are not subject to changes during life and they do not need to change without special medical indications.
Where is it better to do?
Despite the fact that plastic surgery is relatively young science, over the past few decades in this direction, great success have been made.
As for mammoplasty, it has become one of the most popular plastic surgery around the world.She acquired signs of a certain routine on the one hand, on the other, the operation of the operation was continuously improved, new techniques, technologies and materials appeared.
This made it possible to maximize the risk of possible complications and adverse consequences, to obtain the most predicted and persistent results, to develop an individual selection algorithm for each particular patient.
Currently, both abroad and we have well developed all spheres of aesthetic surgery, including mammoplasty.
The variety of interventions, new technologies, modern equipment are very widely represented.
And, after 5-10 years in plastic surgery, we will see even more development.
The future is already emerging here and now.Cell technologies, tissue engineering (when tissue complexes are grown), 3D printing of organs and tissues is no longer fantasy, but reality.However, the main principle in medicine is “do not harm”.And before introducing in wide clinical practice, any new technology goes a long way.All studies and tests must meet the most important criteria - security and efficiency