HEALTH: SILICONE BREAST IMPLANTS. ELEANOR BARONE, M.D., an aesthetic plastic surgeon at ADVANCED DERMATOLOGY and THE CENTER FOR LASER AND COSMETICSURGERY in New York and Long Island
After a 14-year ban, the Food and Drug Administration once again gave its blessing to silicone breast implants. It didn’t take long for American women to get the news: breast augmentation is now the top surgical procedure for women. The ASAPS reports that there were nearly 384,000 breast augmentation surgeries in 2006. We know now that silicone implants are both safe and effective.” News