Battle scars. For plastic surgeons, psychological effects linger from silicone breast implant controversy.
When the first mammoplasty using silicon-gel-filled implants was performed in 1962, no oracle could have predicted what the ensuing 30 years would hold for the procedure. Breast augmentation grew to become the most oft-performed plastic surgery, with conservative estimates placing the number of procedures at nearly 1 million.
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