These approaches are also used for breast augmentation and other cosmetic procedures, he added.

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She went to one surgeon for a tummy tuck to pull in the loose skin and another for breast augmentation.

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Breast augmentation was the most frequent cosmetic surgical procedure in 2012, according to the aesthetic plastic surgery society's new statistics.

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She criticised a lack of information about breast augmentation, saing many women were unaware that implants have to be replaced every 10-15 years.

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Ninety-five per cent of the implants were fitted by private clinics, the vast majority of these procedures will have been for breast augmentation.

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Allergan also sells implants used in breast augmentation and weight-loss surgery.

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But this cancer is so exceedingly rare it seems unclear that this would sway any woman considering undergoing breast augmentation or reconstruction one way or the other.

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The number of breast-augmentation surgeries increased 306% between 1992 and 1998.

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