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gummy bear breast implantsA woman’s breasts have become a symbol for her sexuality, and it is considered by most as the part of the body that needs to be kept in the best shape. Women enhance their physical beauty to fulfill their need to radiate their youthfulness and womanhood. Willing to go as far as cosmetic surgery to improve their appearance, one of the female testimonies to artificial beauty is breast augmentation.
There are a variety of ways to augment one’s breast. Saline and silicone implants have been the most popular methods. Recently, however, a new silicone method made its debut after getting FDA Approval in 2006. Commonly called gummy bear breast implants, the cohesive gel breast implants have by far, been the biggest buzz in breast augmentation.
Gummy Bear Feel vs. its Predecessors
Gummy bear breast implants are implants that come in the form of implant products that use a firmer and solidified silicone gel as its base. The reason why it has been given the gummy bear pseudonym is because of how it reacts when you cut it. When you slice into it,, you will feel a sensation not unlike how gummy bear candies feel like: a soft solid that does not spill when its outer shell is ruptured.
Before the gummy bear breast implants were introduced, the most popular methods were the saline and the silicon implants. Saline implants are silicone rubber shells filled with saline solution, and formed to the desired shape of the patient. Silicone implants, on the other hand, are implants pre-filled with a fat-like silicone substance. It is fluid and sticky.
For a long time, the use of these implants were all the rage, until certain drawbacks started becoming apparent. Problems arise when the implant shells are ruptured. Saline implants deflate when ruptured, and the liquid that spills out will eventually be absorbed by the body. You can just insert another implant afterward, however.
Silicone implant rupture, on the other hand, may cause breast pain or deformity to a patient’s breast, and needs surgery to be removed from the body.
Compared to its two predecessors, gummy bear breast implants will hold together when ruptured. This is because it is solidified, and comes with a thicker outer shell. Moreover, this implant feels more natural to the touch than the other two, and there is the apparent lack of a watery sound when the breasts move around (unlike saline solution implants).
Appearance-wise, the gummy bear implants are like nothing you’ve ever seen. The solidified gel’s consistency makes your breast look more natural. They hold their form, and will not likely wither, ripple or lose their shape over time. With these new breast implants, sagging risks are also lessened.
Gummy bear implants actually have almost the same composition as that of silicone breast implants. The only difference is that they have stabilized the bonds using cross-linkers, helping the molecules better bond to each other, thereby creating a more stable shape.
How will you know if Gummy Bear Breast Implants are for You?
These implants are open to first timers in breast augmentation, patients who wish to undergo breast augmentation revision, or to those who underwent mastectomy and need breast reconstruction. However, patients with specific medical problems need to reconsider. To be able to get the implant, a willing participant will undergo ten years of follow-up check up, and should live within the area of the surgeon.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Getting Free Breast Implants: Lower the Cost of Breast Implants Find Discounts on Breast Implant Prices
Getting Free Breast Implants: Lower the Cost of Breast Implants
Find Discounts on Breast Implant Prices
By megan McFarland
Do you have a desire to enlarge your breasts through the use of breast implants? If so, you’re not alone; thousands of women either have implants or want to get them. If you cannot afford breast implant pricess, there are other ways to pay for them. Many women take out loans for their implants. Others have actually gotten free breast implants. Here’s how to get free breast implants:
1. Sign up for a site to find a benefactor. These benefactors wish to help women improve their self esteem and confidence, and have offered to fund such procedures as breast implants. There are sites, such as myfreeimplants.com, that work to connect women who want a breast augmentation with such funding sources. These sites work similarly to online dating or social networking sites, helping you to meet people who are willing to fund such procedures.
2. Fill out your profile. Your profile can include information about you and your reason for wanting cosmetic surgery. You can also attach as many photos of yourself as you want. Many of the sites say that these photos are the most important item of your profile when it comes to finding free funding for your breast implants.
3. Find a benefactor willing to fund your procedure. On these “free implant” sites, a benefactor can choose specifically to fund your procedure based on the information you have provided about yourself. In a way, these websites operate somewhat like an online dating site. In fact, on some of the sites you receive actual money credits towards your procedure by chatting with the benefactors who have signed up for the site. For example, on myfreeimplants.com, you receive such credit every time one of their benefactors contacts you to chat. They can also choose to send a donation without talking to you directly.
4. Contact plastic surgeons. Occasionally, plastic surgeons may offer free procedures in exchange for the chance to use before-and-after photos and other information on their website and in other advertising. If you are comfortable with your body being seen online in this manner, this can be an option for getting free or lowering the cost of breast implants. It can be tricky to find such opportunities, though. Look for surgeons who seem to be new to the area or trying to increase their advertising, but stay away from very new plastic surgeons. You don’t want botched breast implants, even if they are free.
Many women want breast implants to improve their appearance and self-confidence. If you don’t have the money to pay for such procedures outright, you can get a loan or try to get free breast implants by finding someone willing to pay for the implants or do it for free.
Find Discounts on Breast Implant Prices
By megan McFarland
Do you have a desire to enlarge your breasts through the use of breast implants? If so, you’re not alone; thousands of women either have implants or want to get them. If you cannot afford breast implant pricess, there are other ways to pay for them. Many women take out loans for their implants. Others have actually gotten free breast implants. Here’s how to get free breast implants:
1. Sign up for a site to find a benefactor. These benefactors wish to help women improve their self esteem and confidence, and have offered to fund such procedures as breast implants. There are sites, such as myfreeimplants.com, that work to connect women who want a breast augmentation with such funding sources. These sites work similarly to online dating or social networking sites, helping you to meet people who are willing to fund such procedures.
2. Fill out your profile. Your profile can include information about you and your reason for wanting cosmetic surgery. You can also attach as many photos of yourself as you want. Many of the sites say that these photos are the most important item of your profile when it comes to finding free funding for your breast implants.
3. Find a benefactor willing to fund your procedure. On these “free implant” sites, a benefactor can choose specifically to fund your procedure based on the information you have provided about yourself. In a way, these websites operate somewhat like an online dating site. In fact, on some of the sites you receive actual money credits towards your procedure by chatting with the benefactors who have signed up for the site. For example, on myfreeimplants.com, you receive such credit every time one of their benefactors contacts you to chat. They can also choose to send a donation without talking to you directly.
4. Contact plastic surgeons. Occasionally, plastic surgeons may offer free procedures in exchange for the chance to use before-and-after photos and other information on their website and in other advertising. If you are comfortable with your body being seen online in this manner, this can be an option for getting free or lowering the cost of breast implants. It can be tricky to find such opportunities, though. Look for surgeons who seem to be new to the area or trying to increase their advertising, but stay away from very new plastic surgeons. You don’t want botched breast implants, even if they are free.
Many women want breast implants to improve their appearance and self-confidence. If you don’t have the money to pay for such procedures outright, you can get a loan or try to get free breast implants by finding someone willing to pay for the implants or do it for free.
Friday, June 11, 2010
join the armed forces get free breast implants!
Be all you can be -- in a C-Cup?
By Diana Zuckerman
The news that the Department of Defense is providing free breast augmentation to women in the military and wives of our fighting men has raised more than a few eyebrows.
Extreme Makeover and similar TV programs tout breast augmentation as a way to improve women's self-esteem. But when that same claim is used to justify offering plastic surgery for women in the military, eyes roll. Many of us can't help but wonder if there aren't better ways to build self-confidence among women fighting for our country.
I know it's difficult to find enough recruits right now, but do we want to attract women planning for a free augmentation surgery during R & R?
At a time when we worry that some of our soldiers don't have the armored vests they need, and many Americans have no health insurance, the thought of using taxpayers' money for liposuction and implants for either our recruits or their wives is hard to accept. Surely there are better incentives and rewards for our military men and women.
But the cost and the principle are not the only issues. After all, breast implants are also used for reconstruction for breast cancer patients who lose a breast to mastectomy surgery. Don't those women deserve free medical care if they or their husbands are serving our country? Or is breast implant surgery not safe enough -- especially if done by doctors with limited breast implant experience, as would almost always be true of military doctors?
Kathy Nye is a friend of mine who underwent a double mastectomy at the age of 22, performed by military doctors at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia because her husband was in the Navy. She was told she needed to have both breasts removed because she had a pre-cancerous condition, and that silicone gel breast implants would make her as good as new. There was no publicly available risk information about silicone implants at the time, but one doctor at the military hospital warned her before her biopsy that she should get her clothes on and leave, because the doctors were using her. She never forgot his warning, but she did not heed it. She had her surgery, and the implants caused immediate problems -- fatigue, joint pain, and muscle pain. Implants that she was told would last a lifetime were replaced four times, eventually destroying some of her breast tissue and popping through the skin. With over 20 operations related to her implants, she finally had her implants removed and not replaced.
Was she a guinea pig? At the time she thought the doctors were trying to help her, but she remembers the Navy doctors asking if she knew any women who wanted implants for any reason. They clearly wanted to practice the surgery, just as an army plastic surgeon said in a recent New Yorker article: "The benefit of offering elective cosmetic surgery to soldiers is more for the surgeon than for the patient," according to the interview with Dr. Bob Lyons, the chief of plastic surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. And, even though breast reconstruction is to help repair the damage of breast cancer, it is still considered elective surgery.
Eileen Swanson got her saline breast implants after a mastectomy at Fort Dix, NJ. Her reconstruction was done at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Colorado, and when she had problems she had additional surgeries at nearby Fort Carson. When she became extremely ill with autoimmune diseases, the doctors refused to believe the implants might be to blame. She finally convinced doctors at Fitzsimmons to remove the implants without replacing them. Still, she doesn't blame the military doctors. "They weren't open-minded about the potential cause of my problems but I really believe they thought they were providing the best medical care possible" Eileen tells me. Fortunately, she made up her own mind, and her health improved after her implants were removed.
Carolyn Wolf had her breasts removed in 1971 because they were lumpy. The condition, called fibrocystic disease, was considered a pre-cancerous condition, although it is now acknowledged that it is not a disease and most women with that condition will not get breast cancer. She was referred to the plastic surgery clinic at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC, where she was told that there was no way that a doctor could ever find breast cancer because her breasts were so lumpy. She didn't want implants, and felt that she was making a good adjustment to the mastectomies when one of the doctors told her "You don't have to go through life like this --we can make you look normal." "I suppose that was the straw that broke the camel's back " Carolyn tells me-- "I had implant surgery shortly after that." Last year, she testified before the FDA that her implants ruptured more than 20 years after her surgery, spilling silicone throughout her body. An MRI of her brain reveals more than 20 lesions, she has been coughing up blobs of silicone, and although she does not smoke a lung x-ray shows chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
For these women, the military doctors did them no favor by offering free reconstructive surgery -- in fact, all are still suffering from health problems related to their implants. The surgical complications they experienced may have been exacerbated by their inexperienced doctors, but the most serious health problems were apparently from the product, not the doctors. Our government knows this -- that's why they sued implant manufacturers for tens of millions of dollars to reimburse Medicare for health costs caused by implant problems.
The decision to offer breast implant surgery for military women and military wives sounds funny, but it's not a joke. Just ask the women who are still paying for their free surgery -- through years of health problems and doctors bills.
As taxpayers, we want to provide the best possible benefits to those who risk their lives on our behalf. That should not include implants that our own government has determined to cause expensive long-term health problems.
Diana Zuckerman is president of the National Center for Policy Research for Women & Families, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit health organization. She can be reached at dz@center4policy.org.
By Diana Zuckerman
The news that the Department of Defense is providing free breast augmentation to women in the military and wives of our fighting men has raised more than a few eyebrows.
Extreme Makeover and similar TV programs tout breast augmentation as a way to improve women's self-esteem. But when that same claim is used to justify offering plastic surgery for women in the military, eyes roll. Many of us can't help but wonder if there aren't better ways to build self-confidence among women fighting for our country.
I know it's difficult to find enough recruits right now, but do we want to attract women planning for a free augmentation surgery during R & R?
At a time when we worry that some of our soldiers don't have the armored vests they need, and many Americans have no health insurance, the thought of using taxpayers' money for liposuction and implants for either our recruits or their wives is hard to accept. Surely there are better incentives and rewards for our military men and women.
But the cost and the principle are not the only issues. After all, breast implants are also used for reconstruction for breast cancer patients who lose a breast to mastectomy surgery. Don't those women deserve free medical care if they or their husbands are serving our country? Or is breast implant surgery not safe enough -- especially if done by doctors with limited breast implant experience, as would almost always be true of military doctors?
Kathy Nye is a friend of mine who underwent a double mastectomy at the age of 22, performed by military doctors at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia because her husband was in the Navy. She was told she needed to have both breasts removed because she had a pre-cancerous condition, and that silicone gel breast implants would make her as good as new. There was no publicly available risk information about silicone implants at the time, but one doctor at the military hospital warned her before her biopsy that she should get her clothes on and leave, because the doctors were using her. She never forgot his warning, but she did not heed it. She had her surgery, and the implants caused immediate problems -- fatigue, joint pain, and muscle pain. Implants that she was told would last a lifetime were replaced four times, eventually destroying some of her breast tissue and popping through the skin. With over 20 operations related to her implants, she finally had her implants removed and not replaced.
Was she a guinea pig? At the time she thought the doctors were trying to help her, but she remembers the Navy doctors asking if she knew any women who wanted implants for any reason. They clearly wanted to practice the surgery, just as an army plastic surgeon said in a recent New Yorker article: "The benefit of offering elective cosmetic surgery to soldiers is more for the surgeon than for the patient," according to the interview with Dr. Bob Lyons, the chief of plastic surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. And, even though breast reconstruction is to help repair the damage of breast cancer, it is still considered elective surgery.
Eileen Swanson got her saline breast implants after a mastectomy at Fort Dix, NJ. Her reconstruction was done at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Colorado, and when she had problems she had additional surgeries at nearby Fort Carson. When she became extremely ill with autoimmune diseases, the doctors refused to believe the implants might be to blame. She finally convinced doctors at Fitzsimmons to remove the implants without replacing them. Still, she doesn't blame the military doctors. "They weren't open-minded about the potential cause of my problems but I really believe they thought they were providing the best medical care possible" Eileen tells me. Fortunately, she made up her own mind, and her health improved after her implants were removed.
Carolyn Wolf had her breasts removed in 1971 because they were lumpy. The condition, called fibrocystic disease, was considered a pre-cancerous condition, although it is now acknowledged that it is not a disease and most women with that condition will not get breast cancer. She was referred to the plastic surgery clinic at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC, where she was told that there was no way that a doctor could ever find breast cancer because her breasts were so lumpy. She didn't want implants, and felt that she was making a good adjustment to the mastectomies when one of the doctors told her "You don't have to go through life like this --we can make you look normal." "I suppose that was the straw that broke the camel's back " Carolyn tells me-- "I had implant surgery shortly after that." Last year, she testified before the FDA that her implants ruptured more than 20 years after her surgery, spilling silicone throughout her body. An MRI of her brain reveals more than 20 lesions, she has been coughing up blobs of silicone, and although she does not smoke a lung x-ray shows chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
For these women, the military doctors did them no favor by offering free reconstructive surgery -- in fact, all are still suffering from health problems related to their implants. The surgical complications they experienced may have been exacerbated by their inexperienced doctors, but the most serious health problems were apparently from the product, not the doctors. Our government knows this -- that's why they sued implant manufacturers for tens of millions of dollars to reimburse Medicare for health costs caused by implant problems.
The decision to offer breast implant surgery for military women and military wives sounds funny, but it's not a joke. Just ask the women who are still paying for their free surgery -- through years of health problems and doctors bills.
As taxpayers, we want to provide the best possible benefits to those who risk their lives on our behalf. That should not include implants that our own government has determined to cause expensive long-term health problems.
Diana Zuckerman is president of the National Center for Policy Research for Women & Families, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit health organization. She can be reached at dz@center4policy.org.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
myfreeimplants.com
MyFreeImplants.com started in early 2005 when a bunch of friends were attending a bachelor party in Las Vegas. During the course of the party a conversation started up about how one of the ladies had the most perfect set of breasts. She told us how she had just recently "gotten them done." Her beautiful friend chimed in and mentioned that she wanted to get hers done but could not yet afford the $6000 price tag that her friend had just paid. One of us yelled out "I got $5 on it" and then someone else offered $10, and then $20, and then $50. By the time we got around the suite there was a verbal commitment amongst all the guys in the room to pay for 25% of her implants!
With that initial brain storm and proof of concept we set out to actually raise the rest of the money needed for a full procedure. We came up with the name MyFreeImplants.com and put together a quick website and started spreading the word online. It was an instant hit and donations from all over the world starting pouring in. Within 4 months the remainder of the money was raised with a little extra left over to pay for the website costs.
From there we took the concept to the next level and expanded the website from helping out just 1 girl, to an entire community of girls. Think MySpace with a twist. In July of 2005 the community version of MyFreeImplants.com launched. Within the first couple of weeks the traffic to the website quadrupled and people were creating accounts left and right, eventually forcing us to purchase more bandwidth and faster servers just to keep up with the demand!
Four months later the next success story emerged when a girl named Angel from Texas reached her goal and recieve a free breast augmentation -- paid for by a group of people world wide all chipping in a few bucks.
Fast forward to today and you'll see a social network involving tens of thousands of members, from all over the world, coming together to help women obtain free breast implants. Sign up today and become part of the story!
With that initial brain storm and proof of concept we set out to actually raise the rest of the money needed for a full procedure. We came up with the name MyFreeImplants.com and put together a quick website and started spreading the word online. It was an instant hit and donations from all over the world starting pouring in. Within 4 months the remainder of the money was raised with a little extra left over to pay for the website costs.
From there we took the concept to the next level and expanded the website from helping out just 1 girl, to an entire community of girls. Think MySpace with a twist. In July of 2005 the community version of MyFreeImplants.com launched. Within the first couple of weeks the traffic to the website quadrupled and people were creating accounts left and right, eventually forcing us to purchase more bandwidth and faster servers just to keep up with the demand!
Four months later the next success story emerged when a girl named Angel from Texas reached her goal and recieve a free breast augmentation -- paid for by a group of people world wide all chipping in a few bucks.
Fast forward to today and you'll see a social network involving tens of thousands of members, from all over the world, coming together to help women obtain free breast implants. Sign up today and become part of the story!
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