Breast enlargement through the years

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Breast enlargement through the years
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• In 2010, one and a half million women had
  undergone breast enlargement procedure, making it
  the most sought after cosmetic procedure. This
  procedure has been popular as it is a fix to make
  breasts bigger in size, to enhance the tautness
  and feel of the breasts and enhance the shape of
  the breasts.
• The earliest breast enhancement was performed in
  1895 by Vincenz Czerny, a German surgeon
  specialising in oncological and gynaecological
  surgery. Instead of implants he used autologous
  adipose tissue also, called fat tissue to replace
  the patient's lipoma or a benign tumour in one of
  the breasts. Essentially, this breast procedure
  was not for enlargement purposes at all but to
  redeem the size of the breasts after a damaging
  surgery

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• Robert Gersuny, an Austrian surgeon, and
  obstetrician, experimented to enhance the size of
  breasts with the help of paraffin injections that
  lead to a disastrous result. Paraffin is
  primarily made up of petroleum jelly and was
  discovered to be useful in the enlargement of
  body parts by Robert Gersuny. He had firstly used
  paraffin on soldiers testicles in order to
  increase the size and succeeded. He, later, went
  on to use it in the form of injections to
  increase the size breasts. His formula consisted
  of one part Vaseline and three parts olive oil
  and could go on hassle- free for several years
  but, then it would most definitely lead to a lot
  of health problems. The paraffin could form
  impenetrable lumps or huge ulcers and they could
  also cause blindness. Complete breast amputation
  could only save their lives.

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• From the advent of the twentieth century,
  especially between the periods of the first and
  the Second World War, doctors and surgeons had
  begun exploring many different kinds of options
  to enhance breasts. Some of these fillers are-
  ivory, soybean, glass balls, lanolin, peanut oil,
  polyethylene chips, mineral oil, ground rubber,
  beeswax, ox cartilage, goat's milk, Terylene
  wool, Dicora, teflon, gutta-percha, Ivalon
  (polymer sponge made up of polyvinyl alcohol and
  formaldehyde) and polyester Silastic rubber (foam
  sponge). This was the time when the most
  innovation happened but none of these options for
  breast enlargement caught on later on as they had
  some serious infection risks.
• It has been evidently known that Japanese
  prostitutes after the Second World War in the
  1940s injected themselves with various substances
  to cater better to the likes of American
  soldiers. These substances include liquid
  silicone, cobra venom, and olive oil, the results
  of which were expectedly so, very bad in the
  coming years.

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• Later on, a flap-based breast augmentation was
  performed by Morton I. Berson (1945), and Jacques
  Maliniac (1950), which involved the rotation of
  the chest wall tissue inside the breast that
  would increase the size of the breasts.
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• The pointed breast aesthetic of the 50s gained a
  lot of popularity and lead to a demand for breast
  enhancement. The discoveries made during the
  Second World War could now be used by the
  civilians. These materials included Ivalon sponge
  which was made up of polyvinyl and another one
  was polyethylene tape which was wound into a ball
  and then, encased in more polyethylene.
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• Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, surgeons
  continued using synthetic materials for filling
  breasts such as silicone injections from which
  the silicone granulomas and breast hardening with
  the help of mastectomy were developed at a later
  stage.

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In the year, 1961, Thomas Cronin and Frank Gerow
two American plastic surgeons with the help of
the Dow Corning Corporation had developed the
first silicone breast implants. The first breast
augmentation mammoplasty was performed using
these silicone- filled implants in 1962 on Texan
Timmie Jean Lindsey, who is 83 now.  Following
these developments, in the year 1964, the first
saline breast implant was invented and
manufactured by the French company Laboratories
Arion. They were at a boom in the 90s after the
FDA produced a statement notifying the public of
all the possible risks of silicone
implants. After being avoided as they were
considered dangerous, the silicone implants made
a comeback in 2006 in new form- Silicone
Gel-Filled Implants. They were filled with
silicone gel that felt a lot like real human
flesh and was approved by the FDA after years of
experimentation and research. The gel is thick
and almost semi- solid and was followed by better
coatings and shapes to give the natural look to
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