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Breast Implants Disadvantages

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Why do women get breast implants? Breast implants are medical devices that are implanted under the breast tissue or under the chest muscle to increase breast size or to rebuild breast tissue after mastectomy or other damage to the breast.
They are also used in revision surgeries, which correct or improve the result of an original surgery.
There are two types of breast implants approved for sale in the United States: saline-filled and silicone gel-filled. Both types have a silicone outer shell. They vary in size, shell thickness, and shape.
Saline implants were allowed to remain on the market not because they were any less likely to rupture than silicone implants but because leakage of salt water throughout the body was thought to present

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