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An exhaustive amount of investigations have been done relating to the health of women who have had silicone breast implants. Little work has been published on a more obscure, often not thought about, but very relevant issue…..do silicone breast implants have an any adverse effects on children born to mothers who have had breast implants?
In the December 2007 Supplement in Plastic and Reconstrucive Surgery, Dr Kjoller and others from Denmark examined published findings of epidemiologic studies that have examined that very issue. Based on four epidemiologic studies from Scandinavia where population records and birth registers are historically well tracked, a total of 11,445 women with breast implants and 3,248 children born after the mother’s breast augmentation surgery were examined. Comparisons were made to general population controls. Outcomes evaluated were a variety of birth defects and rheumatic disorders. Their conclusions were that congenital deformities , rheumatic disorders, and perinatal mortality were comparable between children born to motehrs with breast implants and children born to mothers who had under gone other cosmetic surgery.
While these study findings don’t surprise me, I was not aware that this interesting and very relevant issue had actually been studied.
Dr Barry Eppley
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Clarian North Medical Center, Carmel, Indiana
Clarian West Medcal Center, Avon, Indiana
Indianapolis

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