Women can’t keep breast implants for life: FDA. 10 years, that’s it.
“The key point is that breast implants are not lifetime devices,” said Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. “The longer you have the implant, the more likely you are to have complications.”
Personally, I don’t think that going through elective surgeries is worth it. If you think insurance pays for replacements, think again. Unless you had them placed because it was a cancer reconstruction, many insurance companies no longer will help pay to replace them. Buyer beware.
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June 23, 2011 at 8:04 am
I don’t blame the insurance companies for not paying…except in the case of cancer reconstruction as you noted. I decided a long time ago that I would never do any type of plastic surgery. I am what I am…just like Popeye.
Besides, if my husband wanted to look at boobs, all he has to do is look at who’s running our country right now…plenty of boobs there to see.
June 24, 2011 at 6:16 am
It’s best to keep it simple Nunly. Just my opinion, but it seems to work out well.
June 23, 2011 at 9:32 am
Reminds me of that old slogan for Chiffon margarine: “It isn’t nice to fool Mother Nature.”
Leakage, cancer, infections, pain, and only a 10-year warranty – isn’t worth it to me.
June 23, 2011 at 10:56 am
Wanna know what really kills me? The possibility of dying for this. It’s incredible to me.
June 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm
I have never understood how any woman can be so stupid as to purchase these repulsive things. They cost what, something like $8-10,000?
What to do, what to do today, here’s an idea: go pay lots of good money to mutilate yourself! What a great plan!!!
Pay down your mortgage, you morons; get some job training! Start a small business,or start a charity! Feed a crapload of cats! Sh#t, take a trip to Vegas! The options are endless, but mutilation? One would have to be crazy.
June 23, 2011 at 8:38 pm
It’s a nutty world Nom.
June 24, 2011 at 5:35 am
So if say you get your first pair at 20 you’d get 3 replacements by the age of 50….OY!
June 24, 2011 at 6:18 am
Yes, what’s worse is that now a dentist or any other specialty can call themselves a plastic surgeon after a weekend certification stint. Buyer be ware.
June 24, 2011 at 5:38 am
“I have never understood how any woman can be so stupid as to purchase these repulsive things” – NomNomNom
Because women have been conditioned through the generations to conform to male idealizations of beauty….
June 24, 2011 at 6:26 am
Very true wca. The saddest part of it all is that females allow males to dictate what is beautiful. I don’t buy the “self esteem” talk about implants either. Boobs are not going to give you anything. If you have a congenital problem where there is a deformity, then reconstruction should be done. I would hate to go through life with back problems because one side grew and the other did not. Otherwise, I think that any bill related to a cosmetic placement should always rest squarely in the pocket of that person.
June 24, 2011 at 6:57 am
At some point in their lives, everyone has some internal awareness that they are in themselves valuable as they are regardless of beauty, wealth, intelligence; talents: whatever standards against which one is held. It’s true the pressure against maintaining this is very very very high for women, especially regarding “beauty”— an amorphous concept that generally can be defined as “whatever you are not”– as it is near nonexistent for men in that particular arena.
But it is still going to be one’s own personal responsibility to keep this awareness. It is also one’s own personal duty not to diminish it for others. Not caving in to the obscene demands of psychopaths, even if they comprise something near half the species, is part of both. Jmo.
June 24, 2011 at 7:04 am
Also I would contest that men actually view these machinations as beauty: I think they these alterations are about nothing but power. One must expend great portion of one’s resources to prove that one is subservient by having the approved appearance (clothing that hinders one’s mobility, cosmetics that demand much of one’s time, etc). There are the penalties for not conforming to the allowable appearance: inability to get hired, lessening of pay (which also occurs as women age), increase of insults, social ostracization, and even murder in some societies (women who dress as men, women who won’t wear burqas…)
Jmo the giant boobs things is exciting for men as they perceive it as a humiliation to women, a reduction of their persons to objects for men’s use.