Plastic Surgery in All Its Glory -- Bio
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Well, this is creepy. No, not the face transplant story which I'll address in a moment, but this story about leaking silicone gel implants.
Faced with this potential marketing disaster, the company had its engineers come up with an improved plug that greatly reduced the level of leakage -- didn't stop it, mind you, but reduced it. They then modified the try out samples... but left the actual implants that go into people's bodies untouched.
Needless to say, the revelation of this detail has not been a propaganda coup for Mentor Corp.
Regarding the French woman whose face was recently restored through the world's first facial transplant, she seems to be doing well and yes, based upon the description of her situation, she did indeed need this operation, just to get along. My best wishes are with her tonight. Let's hope she does well, despite whatever controversy arises from the fact that her face came from a brain dead woman (a remarkable match, the article notes) and that she was injected with stem cells to reduce tissue rejection.
Her only statement upon seeing her face? A written note. "Merci."
Future Imperative
Well, this is creepy. No, not the face transplant story which I'll address in a moment, but this story about leaking silicone gel implants.
Mentor Corp., which hopes to win Food and Drug Administration approval soon to sell its silicone-gel breast implants for general cosmetic use, faced a problem last year as it prepared to distribute to doctors the demonstration models that prospective customers would try on for size: The implants sometimes left behind an unsettling slick of silicone oil.
Faced with this potential marketing disaster, the company had its engineers come up with an improved plug that greatly reduced the level of leakage -- didn't stop it, mind you, but reduced it. They then modified the try out samples... but left the actual implants that go into people's bodies untouched.
Needless to say, the revelation of this detail has not been a propaganda coup for Mentor Corp.
Regarding the French woman whose face was recently restored through the world's first facial transplant, she seems to be doing well and yes, based upon the description of her situation, she did indeed need this operation, just to get along. My best wishes are with her tonight. Let's hope she does well, despite whatever controversy arises from the fact that her face came from a brain dead woman (a remarkable match, the article notes) and that she was injected with stem cells to reduce tissue rejection.
Her only statement upon seeing her face? A written note. "Merci."
Future Imperative
posted by Ralph Cerchione | Tuesday, December 06, 2005
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