When Finding The Right Doctor For Breast Enlargements

By Mario Bentley

 Breast augmentation is a surgery designed to enlarge the breasts. Women, who are unhappy with the small size of their breasts, sometimes after pregnancy or weight loss, frequently seek this breast enlargement surgery.


If you're considering breast augmentation with breast implants, the following information will provide you with a good introduction to the procedure. For more detailed information about how this procedure may help you, we recommend that you consult a plastic surgeon who is board certified or has completed a residency program that includes instruction in this procedure.

Types of implants

A breast implant is a silicone shell filled with either silicone gel or a salt-water solution known as saline.

Because of concerns that there is insufficient information demonstrating the safety of silicone gel-filled breast implants, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that new gel-filled implants, at the present time, should be available only to women participating in approved studies. Some women requiring replacement of the implants may also be eligible to participate in the study.

Saline-filled implants continue to be available to breast augmentation patients on

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