Return to. Breast implants are medical devices that typically consist of a silicone elastomer shell filled with saline or silicone gel. www. fda. gov/cdrh/breastimplants/ www. fda. gov/cdrh/breastimplants/. Information on silicone gel breast implants, silicone gel breast implant sizes and specifications, silicone breast implant warranties, silicone studies, photos, In the history of breast implants, the silicone gel breast implant has been the most controversial. Women have claimed to get CTD's (connective tissue disorders), www. justbreastimplants. com/implants/silicone. htm www. justbreastimplants. com/implants/silicone. htm. Safety of Silicone Breast Implants (1999) Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Safety of Silicone Breast Implants. www. nap. edu/books/0309065321/html/. var wikiImage = new Image(); wikiImage. onload = function() &ob;if(this. height A breast implant is a prosthesis used to enlarge the size of a woman's breasts (known as breast augmentation, breast enlargement, mammoplasty enlargement, augmentation mammoplasty or the common slang. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Breast_implant. Some surgeons feel that silicone implants have a more natural look and feel than saline implants because silicone gel has a texture that is similar to breast tissue. Saline Implants Saline implants have a silicone rubber shell that is inflated to the desired size with sterile saline. www. smartbreastaugmentation. com/implants. html www. smartbreastaugmentation. com/implants. html. OCR for page R1 Information for Women About the Safety of Silicone Breast Implants Information for Women About the Safety of Silicone Breast Implants Martha Grigg, Stuart Bondurant, Virginia L. Ernster, and Roger Herdman, Editors INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D. C. www. nap. edu/books/0309065933/html/. The health effects of ruptured silicone breast implants remain a controversial issue. The safety of silicone breast implants has been debated for years. There's no scientific evidence that ruptured silicone implants cause serious, long-term health problems, such as cancer or autoimmune disorders. www. mayoclinic. com/health/breast-implants/AN01212 www. mayoclinic. com/health/breast-implants/AN01212. Breast Implants and the problems associated with them. Disease, Deformed Breasts (Photos), Implants after removal(Photos), Toxic Chemicals in implants, Unable to get health insurance, with a ruptured silicone implant Silicone Breast Implants went on the market in 1962, without any safety testing! www. siliconeholocaust. org/ www. siliconeholocaust. org/. Thinking about breast implants? Read a Mayo Clinic specialist's answers to questions about saline-filled and silicone gel-filled implants. In 1992, responding to claims that silicone gel-filled breast implants had harmed tens of thousands of women, www. mayoclinic. com/health/breast-implants/WO00052 www. mayoclinic. com/health/breast-implants/WO00052.