Breast implants blog posts and news

Justin Timberlake Morphs Into The Dancing Breast Implant

For those of you who missed it this past weekend, Saturday Night Live including a pretty funny skit on the topic of plastic surgery.  Guest host Justin Timberlake, dressed as a 34DD breast implant (nothing like the one's in our breast augmentation photo gallery) and armed with a boom box, starts a sing-off with a 5 lb barbell in a sidewalk turf war over the prime space in front of a plastic surgery center.

Each song and dance by Timberlake is based on a current pop hit, and addresses a different kind of plastic surgery, always ending with the tag "Bring it on down to Plasticville!"

Right in stride with the recent popularity of the topic of male breast reduction, at the end the barbell asks the implant, "Do you ever do breast reductions on men?" The implant says, "Sure, why?" to which the barbell responds sheepishly, "Oh no reason whatsoever."

UPDATE May 14: Sorry everyone, looks like NBC pulled the video.  Boo!

Please leave comment if you know why. 

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80 Percent Of Breast Augmentations Are C-cups

Women want c-cup breasts, as suggested by a new survey of plastic surgeons who routinely conduct breast surgery.  The majority (80%) of breast implants used in cosmetic surgery are 300 to 400cc in size, or, a small to full c-cup bra. 

Breast implants: many more options than just breast size

While the size of the breast implant  is of critical importance to a woman opting for breast implant surgery, there are a number of other decisions prior to surgery, such as the breast implant type or the placement of the breast implant.

Plastic surgeons responding to the survey, and reported in the March/April issue of Aesthetic Surgery Journal, reveal a number of breast implant surgery preferences by patients and doctors.

Breast augmentation options and preferences

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Can Breast Implants Get You Ahead At Work

Do fake breasts help a female attorney's career? 

This was the question recently posed at BitterLawyer.com, which claimed that their plastic surgeon source revealed that "a lot" of their patients were female attorneys. Nearly 58% of their readers said "Yep, looking hot can help."  The American Society of Plastic Surgery statistics cite breast implants as last year's most popular cosmetic surgery procedure.

Breast augmentation: a set back or the wrong answer to getting ahead?

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Orange County Boob Job Bandit Surrenders To Police

A 30-year-old California woman turned herself into Huntington Beach police on Tuesday afternoon on charges of commercial burglary, grand theft, and identity theft after using another woman's name to establish a line of credit at the Pacific Center for Plastic Surgery.

Yvonne Pampellone, known in the area as the "Boob Job Bandit," had a breast implant replacement and liposuction at the Pacific Center totaling $12,000 in September of 2008. Pacific Center staff became suspicious when Pampellone failed to show up for two follow-up appointments.

She was caught by detectives who identified her through the tracking numbers in her old breast implants.

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Breast Implants Most Popular Plastic Surgery In 2008

New statistics released by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reveal that for the first time, breast augmentation surgery was more popular than liposuction.

355,671 breast augmentation surgeries were performed in 2008, compared to 341,144 liposuction procedures.

Society president Alan Gold, MD said in a press release that “for the first time in the twelve years these statistics have been collected liposuction is a runner up in popularity to breast augmentation. There is no doubt that this turnabout will generate discussions in the medical community and the public at large.”

Dr. Gold theorized that “changes in fashion, i.e. décolletage baring styles, might be a factor behind this change.”

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Tampa Breast Implant Bandit Arrested During A Stolen Massage

A Bradenton woman was arrested during a massage at the PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, after police detectives traced transactions on a stolen credit card to the spa.

Turns out Julianne Marie Johnson, 44, had been using stolen credit cards for champagne, flowers, hotel rooms, and cosmetic medical services all over Florida.

She is also accused of charging more than $5600 to another man's stolen credit card at Florida Coastal Plastic Surgery and the Manatee Surgical Center for breast implants, where she had previously written a handful of bad checks.

The Manatee County sheriff's report notes that Johnson is facing charges of grand theft, uttering worthless checks, fraudulent use of a credit card and identity theft. She is currently being held in Manatee County Jail on $105,000 bond.

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Italy Moves Toward Banning Breast Implants For Teens

Teenage girls in Italy may soon be prohibited from having breast implants except in special circumstances.

A representative from Italy's health ministry recently explained to reporters that the legislation is meant to protect young women who may not be physically ready to accomodate breast implants, because of the risks associated with the mammary gland being not fully developed.

Bloomberg reports that 14 percent of 16- and 17-year-old Italian women said they would undergo breast augmentation surgery, and 30 percent reported feeling unsatisfied with their bodies.

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Breast Implants And Boxing Don't Mix

A 25-year-old woman in England has been banned from competitive boxing because of her breast implants, according to the UK Daily Telegraph.

The Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) turned down her application on the grounds that the breast augmentation she underwent in 2003 put her at greater health risk.

The chairman of the ABAE said that "international rules forbid anyone with breast implants continuing to box because of risk of damage to the breast tissue," and that "repeated punches to the breast could also lead to distortion known as capsular contracture."

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Victoria Beckham Downsizes Breast Implants

Reports from the entertainment industry suggest that former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has had her breast implants revised.

If true, the surgery comes approximately two years after British plastic surgeon Patrick Malluci publicly commented that Beckham had "the worst type of breasts."

While Beckham hasn't confirmed that she has undergone any surgery, people have commented that her most recent photos show an obvious change, perhaps from smaller implants.

Dr. Alex Karidis told Heat magazine, "I think she may have opted for a smaller implant. They have more of a slope at the side and are much flatter. It's possible her implants have changed."

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It's Official: Sheyla Hershey Has The World's Biggest Boobs

Sheyla Hershey has the biggest boobs in the world.

According the to UK's Daily Star, the 28-year-old woman was forced to travel to Brazil to achieve the KKK size she wanted, because the law (and the wise discretion of plastic surgeons in the US) prohibited her from going any larger than FFF during her eighth surgery.

Hershey is appearing on a British television program called The World's Most Enhanced Woman and Me with broadcaster Mark Dolan as he attempts to uncover "who is really behind these women's decisions to go large, uncover the health risks, and meet the new contender for the title of the world's most enhanced woman."

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