In addition to being foreign objects and looking unnatural, silicone implants have several other serious disadvantages: Did you know that women with silicone implants often have pains for years if they go swimming in cool water or take cold showers? Visible scars are unavoidable with implants, and worst of all the breast wears out after a few years from the weight of the implant, requiring breast tightening operations with implant replacement. At the present time no doctor knows what effect the minute amounts of silicone released from the implant over decades may have on the body. Even if there is no proof that it causes cancer or may be toxic, caution is advisable! Autologous tissue is safer than foreign objects!
With Macrolane, hyaluronic acid is injected in nut-sized deposits through small incisions below the breast. This means that new incisions have to be made for each new injection, which obviously leave visible scars. The nut-sized deposits can be felt as hard spots in the breasts, hence Macrolane is not suitable for every breast.
As to the cost of the procedure: With the manufacturer, Qmed, charging doctors € 350 (!) for 10 ml of Macrolane, it is easy to calculate that the price for a standard augmentation of 200 ml per side would be ca. € 14,000, plus surgeon’s fees, anesthesiologist’s fees, operating room fees, etc. Who wants to pay that much every 2 years?
The New Cosmetic Surgery, which I advocate and for which patients come to me in Vienna from all over the world, even Beverly Hills, spares women undergoing breast and facial procedures from scalpels, plastic, and silicone and means a considerable improvement of health and quality of life!
No medical procedure is entirely risk-free, but any women can intuitively see that there is more potential danger from a foreign object than from autologous tissue.
Gentle breast augmentation with stem cell-enriched autologous fat is an alternative to silicone and hyaluronic acid: Clinical studies from Japan and the USA have since shown that stem cell-enriched autologous fat is an ideal, durable, and safe filler material not only for breast reconstruction, for exmple after cancer operations, but also for cosmetic breast augmentation!
Among the several thousand patients worldwide treated thus far, not a single case of “tissue proliferation” or “non-healing” has been documented, as is sometimes postulated without study results to back it up. It sounds suspicious that these “risks” are merely defensive statements on the part of those plastic surgeons who know nothing of the stem cell method and see it as a threat to their “quick incision” (operation time for silicone implants: 15 minutes) business.
This procedure is very time consuming and hence does not allow the surgeon a “quick incision.” Nevertheless, it produces the best possible results for the patient – the autologous stem cell-augmented breasts look and feel completely natural in any position and in movement because living fat tissue develops from the injected stem cells. This method leaves no visible scars.
Heinrich, MD