Breast implant removal is a surgical procedure to remove implants that surgeons originally put in place during reconstructive or cosmetic surgery. Learn more here.

Silicone breast implants have made a big comeback in cosmetic procedures, a little more than six years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted its ban on most use of the devices ...

Plastic surgeons and the two dominant Southern California-based makers of silicone breast implants are gearing up for what they expect will be a boom in sales of the devices. The only question ...

Six years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted its ban on using silicone implants in breast-augmentation surgery, the devices are used in more than 70% of the procedures.

A picture taken on January 12, 2012 in Boissy-l'Aillerie, northern Paris, shows a technician presenting a silicone breast implant produced by French implant manufacturer, Sebbin laboratories.

The surgery to replace an implant is not as involved as the original procedure. However, the risk of complications is actually higher. In addition, insurance rarely pays for these revision surgeries.

Silicone gel implants were taken off the market in 1992 amidst fears that they could be linked to cancer, ... Find out how many augmentation procedures the surgeon performs a year, ...

Women who have breast reconstruction after cancer surgery tend to be happier with the cosmetic results of silicone implants than with saline-filled ones, a study suggests. Silicone breast implants ...