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Breast Augmentation on the Rise in Women Under 20, 2007-11-29
Statistics collected by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons indicate that since 2006 more than 9,100 females aged 18 to 19 have undergone some form of breast augmentation procedure.
It is not uncommon for young women who wear an A cup or smaller to seek augmentation into the C cup range. In most cases in the 18-19 age bracket the young women have the support and assistance of their parents in locating a surgeon and paying for the procedure.
With proper medical evaluation prior to the augmentation, the services of a trained and certified surgeon, and appropriate post medical care, breast augmentation is completely safe and can be a significant boost to a young woman’s sense of self-esteem.
In an interview with The Shield, the student newspaper at Southern Indiana University, Carol Ciancutti-Leyva, director of the documentary “Absolutely Safe” discussed her mother’s experience with breast implants between 1974 and 1987.
Ciancutti-Leyva watched her mother go through inexplicable rashes, pain in the joints, arthritis, lupus, and unrelenting fatigue. At the time, information about implants and their potential side effects and risks was not readily available.
Her documentary is an effort to help women to make a completely informed decision before undergoing the procedure, a cosmetic option that is no longer the purview of starlets and the rich and famous.
Understanding the procedure and evaluating potential issues is especially important as more young women become interested in augmentation because they will be living longer with their implants and with the change in their appearance.
All cosmetic specialists agree that patients should cultivate realistic goals and expectations and seek augmentation because it is their desire to do so, not as a move to please another person.
Breast Augmentation on the Rise in Women Under 20, 2007-11-29
Statistics collected by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons indicate that since 2006 more than 9,100 females aged 18 to 19 have undergone some form of breast augmentation procedure.
It is not uncommon for young women who wear an A cup or smaller to seek augmentation into the C cup range. In most cases in the 18-19 age bracket the young women have the support and assistance of their parents in locating a surgeon and paying for the procedure.
With proper medical evaluation prior to the augmentation, the services of a trained and certified surgeon, and appropriate post medical care, breast augmentation is completely safe and can be a significant boost to a young woman’s sense of self-esteem.
In an interview with The Shield, the student newspaper at Southern Indiana University, Carol Ciancutti-Leyva, director of the documentary “Absolutely Safe” discussed her mother’s experience with breast implants between 1974 and 1987.
Ciancutti-Leyva watched her mother go through inexplicable rashes, pain in the joints, arthritis, lupus, and unrelenting fatigue. At the time, information about implants and their potential side effects and risks was not readily available.
Her documentary is an effort to help women to make a completely informed decision before undergoing the procedure, a cosmetic option that is no longer the purview of starlets and the rich and famous.
Understanding the procedure and evaluating potential issues is especially important as more young women become interested in augmentation because they will be living longer with their implants and with the change in their appearance.
All cosmetic specialists agree that patients should cultivate realistic goals and expectations and seek augmentation because it is their desire to do so, not as a move to please another person.
