Safe Silicone? F.D.A. Reaffirms The Use Of Silicone

Don't worry your silicone breasts are safe! Over two days of discussion and testimony about silicone breast implants took place to debate how safe these widely used implants really are. According to Dr. William Maisel, the chief scientist for the Food and Drug Administrations Center for Devices, “Women should feel assured that the F.D.A. continues to believe that currently marketed silicone breast implants are safe.”

Risks such as ruptures, scarring, pain, infection and asymmetry still exist. Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women and Families, testified that the two companies that manufacture silicone breast implants had not done a thorough job in testing patients. While Dr. Maisel agreed that more patients could have been studied, the results did not prove silicone breast implants to be unsafe.

Although there was much debate surrounding these studies, the committee agreed that patients should no longer be instructed to get a M.R.I. test three years after getting implants and every two years following. The F.D.A. and panel believe that M.R.I is the best form of evaluation when it comes to identifying a rupture, but the requirement of encouraging women to undergo this test will be reviewed by the F.D.A.

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