Breast augmentation is one of the most popular forms of plastic surgery. Here is an overview of this procedure, including a brief history and some basic facts about the surgery as it is today.
Breast augmentation has risen to become one of the most popular forms of plastic surgery for women. While it may seem as though this is a recent trend, implants have actually been around since the turn of the 20th century. A man named Vincenz Czerny was the inventor of the first implants around the late 1800s. From there, they have taken a number of different turns to become the medical implants we know today. Silicone took the early lead in the 1950s as the implant material of choice across the U.S. These were done in the form of injections, which proved to be rather unsafe. It was in 1961 that the first silicone gel implant was invented. They were used with varying success until the early 1990s, when they were banned by the FDA and replaced entirely by saline implants.
