Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . All silicone breast implants eventually require removal. The longer a person has these implants, the greater ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Silicone Toxicology." Institute of Medicine. 1999. Safety of Silicone Breast Implants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9602. This chapter reviews ...

These artificial assets turned out to be a bust. A Miami model with the “biggest fake breasts in the US” has had surgery to remove her enormous implants after claiming they caused her health problems.

Complications requiring surgical removal or replacement of breast implants occur with approximately equal frequency across the various types of implants currently in use. This finding comes from a ...

Scientists from the St Petersburg University Laboratory of the Mosaic of Autoimmunity have conducted a comprehensive examination of women who have undergone silicone augmentation mammoplasty. The ...

Attempts to improve the look of the breast by augmenting its size and shape date back to the late 1880s. Among the materials inserted in breasts early on were ivory, glass balls, ground rubber, ox ...