Posted by Matt Which is probably just as well in this case. While there are some women who look good with the super-huge boobs (Teddi Barrett and Melonie Charm are tall enough to pull them off) others just look awkward. Personally, I think Chelsea Charms' are way too large for her frame, she's a beauty but they don't fit. The surgeon in me winces when I try and imagine the breadth of the surgery to reshape the breast when the implants finally come out. I can't imagine the petite Sarenna with the huge string-boobs, hers' are perfect as they are. The person to really talk to about silly-string boobs is Melonie Charm. I'm just a cardiovascular device surgeon, so while I know biomaterial-tissue interactions my knowledge of the implants are from the papers. Melonie is a former health-care professional and she has the bloody things! When she posts about them on the forums like the BEArchive, they are full of first hand knowledge and detail and well written to boot. Matt
on October 28, 2003, 5:29 pm
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The FDA closed them down as a viable procedure. Basically, Dr. Johnson got around the FDA implant regs by doing it as an experimental biomaterials trial and shoved a whole bunch of polypropolene suture (Prolene from Eticon, if anybody cares) into the cavity that he made. Unfortunately, there were some problems. Since the ball of suture is a dynamic, bioreactive implant with a huge surface area, the tissues are irritated and try to wall it off and isolate it with serous fluid. The influx of fluid causes the suture ball to expand, which puts the suture in pressure-contact with the tissue again, leading to more serous fluid infiltration, etc. This has resulted in the need to drain fluid periodically and some women have had their skin tear, especially during pregnancy. Also, some women have had to had fluid injected into one breast because the other has expanded more. The FDA reclassified this as an implant procedure and have said that it needs to go through proper clinical trials before approval, which will cost several million dollars. So, they are dead in the USA.
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