Saline Breast Implants Stay On Market As Experts Warn About Risks.

FDA Consumer | July 1, 2000| | Copyright

At the same time that Mattel's redesigned, smaller-busted Barbie doll was making its way onto the shelves of this nation's stores in 1998, a record number of the nation's women opted for a kind of surgery that would give them larger busts.

Breast augmentation has become the second most commonly performed cosmetic surgical procedure after liposuction, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. In 1998 alone, more than 130,000 women in the United States underwent the procedure. This number grew to 191,000 in 1999--a 51 percent increase over the previous ...

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