Sunday, March 30, 2008

LOOPHOLES ALLOW PLASTIC SURGEONS TO CIRCUMVENT RULES ABOUT BREAST IMPLANTS

Excellent article and a follow-up to the tragedy of this beautiful young cheerleader here.

I concur with Dr. Zuckerman's comments:

I had a young woman tell me her plastic surgeon called an acne scar a deformity so she could get a silicone implant," said Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women & Families.

Similarly, I know plastic surgeons who placed saline implants for a few months, to circumvent the mandate that women under 22 could receive saline ... and then re-operated to replace them with silicone gel. This loophole I have heard about many times. (Gel replacements are allowed for women under 22 ... not first time implants.)