Women with silicone breast implants should feel reassured.
Quotes about silicone (10 Quotes)
Whether it's Vioxx or Bextra or silicone implants, the rule now is 'Buyer Beware,' ... The drug and device companies own the FDA and it is the companies' profit potential that rules the review and approval process - except when the profit motive is overridden by the White House morality police, as with the morning-after pill.
We live in Silicone Valley, California. I always thought it would be nice to live in a place with the sun on my back. I get that from living in South Africa from 3 up until I was 16. I was once thinking about Australia, but when I went to places in the US major soccer league, as they call it out there. We decided it would be nice to live there.
I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.
I had a total of 38 wigs, for a start. There were prosthetics, too - silicone pieces which go on the skin, which absorb the light. They looked like seven pieces of uncooked veal to start with.
Elast-Eon is a very clean material that is free of the silicone oil that has been leaching out of gel-filled devices for the past 20 to 30 years. And we can move back into the softer range that more naturally simulates breast tissue.
The FDA, sponsors, and the clinical community have learned a great deal about breast implants, especially silicone gel-filled breast implants, over the last 10 years, ... Based on this knowledge, this revised guidance is our view on the information needed to provide a reasonable assurance of safety, and to allow women and physicians to make informed decisions about silicone implants.
And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.
If nothing else, you'll understand that there's another use for silicone,
We know that implants do break in the body. We need to know what happens to women when that silicone is leaking in their body.