Cosmetic Surgery

It’s hard to believe, but it has been well over 100 years since surgeons first used surgical procedures in order to increase the size and reshape the female breast! The earliest known breast augmentation was attempted using a woman’s own benign fat tumour (lipoma) obtained from her back around the year 1895. Since then, all sorts of other synthetic and non-synthetic materials have been used with various success rates. In the early to mid-1900s these materials included glass balls, paraffin, ivory, foam sponges, rubber, wool and even ox cartilage! Most of these materials met with understandably disastrous results and it wasn’t until the early 1960s that Cronin & Gerow, two Texan plastic surgeons, developed the first generation of silicone breast prostheses and a new era was born.