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Consis
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posted April 11, 2005 09:48 PM |
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Edited By: Consis on 11 Apr 2005
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Poll Question:
Breast Implants: Saline or Silicone?
FDA Breast Implant Information:
 http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/breastimplants/indexbip.html
Thirteen years after the Food and Drug Administration ordered silicone-gel implants restricted to use in strictly controlled research studies, the agency is considering if it's time to allow their widespread sale. Women who blame silicone-gel breast implants for crippling health problems faced women who called them the best option in an emotional debate. There are women who say their implants left crippling scars, and others who call the silicone version a more natural-looking option than saline implants and who contend that consumers should be free to choose:
~"They poisoned my mother," said a tearful Brenna Dowd of Boise, Idaho. "I have never known a healthy mother." "I don't want anybody else to suffer this way," said Susan Helman of Florida, who described autoimmune diseases that she attributes to platinum left in her body when her implants broke apart. "We have a right to decide what is right for our own bodies," said Virginia Silverman of Orange County, Calif. She initially chose salt water-filled implants for reconstruction after breast cancer surgery but found them so hard that she replaced them in 2001 with silicone-gel implants that she finds more comfortable. "We are neither ignorant nor shallow," said Arlene Nicole Cummings, who runs a pro-gel implant Web site. "Women along with their surgeons should be allowed to choose silicone or saline."...[]...
Questions Remaining:
1. How long the devices will last inside a woman's body?
2. What happens if they break and the silicone gel oozes into the breast or beyond?
The FDA is conducting a three-day meeting with its scientific advisers to debate whether two manufacturers, Inamed and Mentor corporations, have proved that their implants are durable and safe enough to re-enter the U.S. market. In preliminary analyses released last week, FDA scientists suggested the companies have not, saying their data is of "limited value" in settling the concerns. It's an emotionally charged issue, as evidenced by the FDA's unusual decision to schedule at least 15 hours on Monday to hear testimony from the public.
"No medical device lasts a lifetime," said Dr. Caroline Glicksman, a New Jersey plastic surgeon who said she has implanted thousands of the silicone-gel version. She said the FDA's decision should be based "on facts, not politics and emotion." Silicone-gel implants were sold for decades until the FDA implemented the 1992 restrictions. Since then, they have been available only to women enrolled in strictly controlled research studies because of fears the implants could cause major health problems. The implants have been largely exonerated of causing such serious illnesses as cancer or lupus. However, painful scar tissue that can form around them breaks that require surgery to remove or replace implants. Other complications remain contentious. No more than 15 months ago, the FDA told manufacturers that it wouldn't lift restrictions on the implants' sale until questions about breakage in particular are settled.
Inamed and Mentor filed studies with the FDA suggesting that over three to four years, anywhere from roughly 1% to 20% of implants rupture, requiring patients to undergo additional surgery to remove or replace them. Those studies, however, tracked small numbers of women for a short time, FDA scientists cautioned in preliminary analyses posted on the agency's Web site last week. One FDA estimate suggested that up to three-quarters of the devices might rupture within 10 years of implantation.
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Lord_Woock
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posted April 11, 2005 10:26 PM |
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Consis, why in the world would you need breast implants? *confused*
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Daddy
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and why not.
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posted April 11, 2005 10:29 PM |
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Eeeek, Consis is a woman!!!
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Lord_Woock
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posted April 11, 2005 10:30 PM |
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Does his wife know about this? 
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Daddy
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and why not.
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posted April 11, 2005 10:46 PM |
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well, I am sure that in a good amrriage husband and wife can speak about as vital issues as this freely.
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Lord_Woock
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posted April 11, 2005 10:51 PM |
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Well, yes, but think of the children! 
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Consis
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posted April 11, 2005 11:41 PM |
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LoL...
Aren't you kids supposed to be in school or something? 
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Vadskye91
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posted April 12, 2005 12:06 AM |
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What about C. All of the above, or D. None of the above? There should even be a E. Eek Consis is a woman choice!
Freedom of speech my #$%&.
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Daddy
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and why not.
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posted April 12, 2005 12:20 AM |
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Quote:
Aren't you kids supposed to be in school or something?
Well, It was 22:00 pm or sth like that by the time I posted this
reg
Daddy
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Svarog
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posted April 12, 2005 04:33 AM |
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One über-tit contains enough silicon material for about 5 computers. Multuply that by 2, and see how much is that.
Save the computer industry! Vote saline!
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Trogdor
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posted April 15, 2005 01:26 PM |
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Would it be a lot easier for women to grow breasts naturally?
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aeries
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posted April 15, 2005 04:53 PM |
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Big Breasted!
As a naturally big breasted woman I think women who are small should have the option to have silicon implants. But small breasted women are always jealous of us big breasted women, that's why thy don't like Jordan, with her implants and now she's going for reductions!
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Huh?
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posted April 21, 2005 12:36 PM |
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This topic can become 'bragging thread'!
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posted May 03, 2005 12:03 AM |
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Obviously, there is only one way to decide this issue...
Bring on the taste test!
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terje_the_ma...
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posted May 03, 2005 12:07 AM |
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I think I read somewhere that silicone implants have a tendency of splitting open after 10 years. I also seem to remember that they can harden...
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posted May 03, 2005 12:55 AM |
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I'd vote neither, I prefer them natural no matter the size 
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friendofgunnar
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posted July 28, 2006 09:09 PM |
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Saline
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I don't even know why there's a debate on this.
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ruby
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posted July 28, 2006 09:24 PM |
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One of my friends, who happens to be a professional stripper, got silicone implants and they leaked through her stitches twice! It was so disgusting.
She got them replaced twice, doubles Ds, but they kept leaking.
So as it seems...God did not want her to have giant boobs.
True story.
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Antipaladin
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posted July 28, 2006 10:43 PM |
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i remmber seeing\reading somewhere,that silicon implants on boobie area can couse some sort of heartfailer..?
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russ
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posted July 28, 2006 11:44 PM |
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Hmm... I am against the implants. Nearly all breasts look good to me As for those girls who barely have any - some men actually do like that too!
"Implants: 20 yrs later" is one of the things that does not quite fit into my definition of looking good. I am not sure why so many women get them. Take Pamela Anderson, for example - she had perfect boobs until she made the surgery.
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