Most media attention to the risks of silicone breast implants fixates on the potential rupture problem. But there are less well-known, but equally serious health risks.
Saline and silicone breast implants are well known to cause:
- Breast pain
- Potentially permanent changes in nipple or breast sensation
- Infection
- Scar tissue that distorts the shape of the breast implant
- Implant leakage or rupture
- Need for additional breast surgery
But even more dangerous are the risks of autoimmune diseases, cancer, and psychological disorders. The materials used in these implants are biologically alien to your body, and often coated in highly controversial nanoparticle silica. They are rejected by the immune system in 11.4% of cases.
Green Med Info reports:
“There are also less acute autoimmune conditions that have been linked to breast implants, which include fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis ... Another serious and commonly over-looked ‘side effect’ of breast implantation is the increased risk of cancer, including brain cancer, bronchial cancer, skin cancer (non-melanoma), lung cancer, cervical cancer and vulvar cancer.”