Talk:Silicone (medical and surgical uses)

Reading the medical literature about cheek implants, chin implants, and breast implants brings one directly into the history of silicone for these uses. Hopefully, this article will eventually be complete enough to stand on its own. At the moment there is a natural tie-in to cosmetic and plastic surgery. Nancy Sculerati MD 14:07, 3 March 2007 (CST)

References

Dermal filler

Johl SS. Burgett RA. Dermal filler agents: a practical review. Current Opinion in Ophthalmology. 17(5):471-9, 2006 Oct.

Injectable silicone for body contouring

Unregulated use

1. 1. The Straits Times (Singapore), March 11, 2001, Sunday, South-East Asia, Pg. 18, 659 words, Silicone dreams shattered, Devi Asmarani, Straits Times Indonesia Bureau"They wanted perfect noses, fuller lips and voluptuous breasts. What they ended up with instead were grotesque snouts, disfigured lips and breast cancer.

Thousands of women in Indonesia have become victims of a trendy beauty treatment called the silicone injection."

Criminal use

Since injection of silicone can be done by individuals who are not highly trained, there have been cases of lay individuals Practicing cosmetic surgery without a license" using this technique. Complications, including fatal embolism, are not rare. Major newspapers report cases all over United States.

1. 1. Man sentenced to 5 years for fatal silicone injection, The Houston Chronicle, March 10, 2005, Thursday, 3 STAR EDITION, B;, Pg. 5, 405 words, ANDREW TILGHMAN, Deaths Prison Sentences. (A transgendered man who lived as a woman was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for giving another man a fatal injection of liquid silicone designed to create female-sized breasts)

1. 2. Woman is sought in injections case, The San Diego Union-Tribune, June 25, 2005 Saturday, LOCAL; Pg. B-2:2,7; B-3:1, 129 words, Jenny Shearer (woman in California, non-medical professional allegedly injected several transgendered people. "Two of the five people who received injections in their buttocks, hips, cheeks and lips became ill within hours and are on life support. One isn't expected to live, police said."

1. 3. Woman accused of illegal injections; Silicone used to 'pump up' bodies, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 5, 2004 Thursday, Home Edition, Pg. 1JJ, 711 words, LATEEF MUNGIN, JEFFRY SCOTT

(When she was arrested Tuesday, investigators found a room in her home that had examination tables, 12 gallons of silicone and topical anesthetics. They also found waste thought to have been used in 20 to 30 surgeries, such as blood-soaked gauze and silicone-stained syringes, Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter said. )

1. 4. Floridians pay high price in pursuit of beauty; Illegal silicone injections have resulted in disfigurement, death, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin), April 24, 2001 Tuesday, FINAL EDITION, Pg. 12A, 832 words, THOMAS C. TOBIN St. Petersburg Times (Vera Lawrence, a 53- year-old Miami secretary and mother of two, died last month in the Broward County suburb of Miramar with 36 fresh needle marks in her hips and buttocks. She allegedly was injected in a friend's apartment by Mark D. Hawkins, a 36- year-old man from Greenville, S.C., who also worked as a house cleaner.

Hawkins was charged with manslaughter, third-degree felony murder and practicing medicine without a license after an autopsy showed Lawrence died from a silicone embolism in one of her lungs.)

1. 5. 3 NABBED AS PHONY CLINIC DOCS, Daily News (New York), April 21, 2001, Saturday, NATIONAL EDITION, NEWS;, Pg. 10, 375 words, By RICHARD WEIR and JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS(Police arrested three phony doctors and a fake nurse at a Queens clinic that offered discount plastic surgery and dental work, authorities said yesterday.The outfit was exposed after a 33-year-old woman was hospitalized with a serious infection from a silicone injection in her buttocks.)