According to medical statistics, although the controversy on safety of silicone breast augmentation has no conclusion, the number of Japanese women volunteering to accept the operation has gradually increased. In Japan, “looks beautiful” surgery only takes one hour and approximately 1 million yens (about 8 thousand U.S. dollars).
Silicone breast augmentation surgery began in 1962. At that time, people think that silicone breast is soft and natural with simple operation, therefore, it had welcomed by doctors and women. Only in the United States 100-200 million women have breast augmentation surgery, it is estimated that every year there are 90 thousand to 100 thousand women with silicone breast prosthesis augmentation. However, since the early 1990s, the news of lack of safe operation was exposed, the complaints on breakdown of silica gel, the death and other issued have a sudden increase.
Silica has chronic damage on health, so it is difficult to see in a short period. However, with regard to the controversy on security issue of silicone breast augmentation is still in the focus of in the cancer issue. In 2005, the American Medical Association, a group of experts published a study on this issue: While there is no indication that silica gel will cause the cancel, but the silicone breast implants actually cause a number of related diseases.
