Unhappy with their breast size and how they look, more and more girls around 18 years of age are undergoing expensive and dangerous breast implant surgery. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports that 3,841 young women 18 or younger underwent breast augmentation, a 19 percent increase from 2002. This trend is developing here in India especially among the teenagers who dream to enter the film industry. Big busts are regarded as sign of good health for some film industry!
Breast implants are fast becoming as the most popular new fad among teens looking to improve their looks. This helps them more noticeable to the opposite sex. ?Breasts are a fashion item,? says Dr. Garry Brody, professor of plastic surgery at the University of Southern California.
More and more females regard this dangerous practice as nothing more than fun, willing to ignore the danger, side effects and long term problems associated with breast implant surgery. They regard such surgery as "just a fun thing to do," comparing it to having their hair or nails done, rather than the complicated, dangerous and expensive surgical procedure it really is.
Around holidays, spring break, graduation and during the Christmas season, doctors begin to see the demand for breast implant surgery increase. Breast augmentation has become so popular among females, that many parents are now offering the surgery as a Sweet 16 or high school graduation gift, sometimes paying upwards of $10,000 for breast enlargement.
Even though the United States? Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved saline implants for girls whose ages are 18 or older, their recommendation is only advisory, because unlike medications, breast implants are not regulated by them.
However, silicone-gel implants are not approved for marketing, available to women only through FDA approved clinical studies. Throwing caution to the wind, females are unwilling to treat implant surgery with the seriousness it deserves, acknowledging the risks and permanent changes they are making to their bodies and appearance.
Unfortunately those risks far outweigh the advantages of having larger, fuller breasts, especially at such a young age, when most girls? bodies are not even fully developed yet. Most teens do not want sensible advice thrown at them, though, if they are flat-chested girls still in the process of developing.
Teenagers have the worst self and body image. When they look through magazines and see those voluptuous models with large, full breasts on every page, they want to look just like that, the consequences being horrible and tragic. Often there are always consequences to breast implant surgery, which are serious, some not, but one thing is for sure, their bodies will be changed forever.
And the saddest thing is that once the surgery is completed, it cannot be undone.
There may be complicated problems for these young girls which will end up being a lifetime of regret. Everything from severe asymmetry to life threatening complications and illness can occur with implant surgery. Other risks include complications from anesthesia, excessive bleeding and infection. Over a time the implants can rupture or deflate, requiring more surgery, along with capsular contracture the tightening of scar tissue around the implant, a common complication following breast augmentation.
There are some safer, all natural remedies and alternatives to increase the breast size. These are easily available at the market which is effective, with none of the side effects or dangers involved with implant surgery. If the wannable perfect ten figures female are willing to take the time to look around, they can have the larger, fuller breasts, without risking their lives to have their dream body.
