Are These the World's Oldest Breast Implants?

Moreover, a doctor will not explain all the risks and benefits of surgery and has not the patience to answer all questions is a doctor to be avoided.
Do not want to operate a man who has no patience. In addition, the physician must explain that silicone implants are not permanent and would have cared.

this is a very interesting thread. i will speak to a few of the older docs and get their take on this.

Better than Wikipedia is a book called Cleavage: Technology, Controversy, and the Ironies of the Mad Made Breast, by Nora Jacobson. While the first US silicone implant may have been introduced in the early 1960s, it's clear that other countries (most notably Japan) were experimenting with both silicone injections and implants. Even Jacobson found the research difficult to pinpoint to dates, given the record keeping at the time.

And let's not forget how incredibly brave she was for going through with it .
We have so many information now and so many women did it already. She instead, has been a real "boobies" pioneer :O))) Respect !!! C

My mom says she had them done in Okinawa in 1957. She said they cut her in the crease below her boobs and they were placed in there as one piece. She said they were silicone. I don't know how to prove that they were put in prior to 1962. She said it was before my brother was born and that was in 1959. So what can I tell you. Perhaps a doctor in Japan had his own method of putting the silicone in her breasts. They look contained to me but who knows exactly how hers were done. It's not like we have japanese medical journals on our websites to prove or disprove how her doctor did her ba. This is a good question. Perhaps he created a contained silicone implant but did not market and patent it like Dow Corning did. I really don't know. Okinawa is a very small island and at that time who knows if the native island doctors documented anything at all. I don't think they had patent offices or anything like that in Okinawa at that time. If I can find the time I will try to contact someone in Japan and see if they can find out. My mom is also over 80 and it's also possible she's not remembering the timeline correctly. Although she insists this is the way it happened and I'm not going to argue with her. Either way her implants are the oldest I've ever seen and I give her a 2 thumbs up for letting me share such an intimate part of her life with the world.

PS. Sorry, meant "younger" , less old .. :) c

Flamer , it might come as a bit of a shock, but America really is not the center of the world :/, and .. even if the implants were three/four years older than suggested,.... would it really matter??? They are super old and looking super good . :) C

I have a question. According to literatures, the first breast implants were invented in 1961 and the first breast augmentation surgery was performed in 1962. How could this lady accept breast augmentation with "silicone gel implants" in 1957 ? Fake news ?

I think she looks great, but then she's my mom. I'll have her put on a bikini and have McKinsey add it to the pics above. She is getting over major back surgery so she has a hard time standing straight but rehab is working on it.

This is so awesome! As they say, if it ain't broke...

Awesome... lucky woman :) C

They look fantastic. Unfortunately, on the web and in the media we mostly hear about the problem cases and not the millions of women out there with implants who are very happy.

She's awesome! I wonder if she still rocks a bikini.

Agree. But too bad doctors still can't predict the hardening part.