All you can stuff in Breast Augmentation

Peter A. Aldea, MD answers: Is Sheyla Hershey, biggest breast implants in the world, in danger?

Our blog reported on model Sheyla Hershey's latest breast implants surgery to go to the extremely large size 38KKK. Because safety standards actually exist in the US and no doctor would do the surgery, she went to Brazil. What kind of risks is Ms. Hershey taking by pushing the limits of her breast implant size?


Peter A. Aldea, MD
4 months ago

I agree with my other colleagues.

The cynical comment that "Life is a fatal process" has never been more apt. Whenever one is in doubt, all you have to do is observe NATURE and let it guide you.

Skin while lovely in infancy and pre-teen years, rarely keeps is resiliency and smoothness in our later years. Its pliability and tightness become compromised by exposure to light radiation and the process of aging. As we age, our skin thins, droops, wrinkles and becomes courses.

Large implants stretch the overlying skin and compress the breast tissue so hard to the point where it LITERALLY goes away (atrophies). The soft tissue cables (Cooper's ligaments) anchoring the young breast to the chest wall giving it its bounce are gone and the breasts droop ever faster. The thinned skin gradually loses its normal blood circulation further accelerating these unsightly and UNCORRECTABLE changes. The results are often implants which are clearly visible through the skin which one day become exposed by a minor injury forcing removal of the implant and a harrowing breast reconstructive challenge to the surgeon which will never be satisfactory to the patient.

Although SOME surgeons MAY be tempted to put such implants in for "bragging rights", the vast majority of my colleagues, as demonstrated on this board, will be loath to take advantage of such a silly woman by knowingly deforming her.

Don't Do It!

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