Recently, the Food and Drug Administration has recommended that silicone breast implants should be allowed back on the market. A ban was put on the implantation of silicon breasts about eleven years ago because of the initial health problems that were resulting from them. This issue has become one that is very controversial because many women are not sure if they should take a chance and embark on the new silicone gel-filled breast implants or just settle with the well researched, but not as good looking, saline implants.
Since 1992, when then the ban was placed on silicone implants, many women have sued silicone implant makers for "complaints centered more on systemic illness purportedly caused by exposure to silicone." The implant maker Inamed Corp. proposed to the FDA, a few weeks ago, that silicone implants can not actually be directly linked to many diseases and illnesses that they were thought to be. …
