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...spirit of a public health campaign, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) has launched a p.r. drive to "tell the other side of the ((breast-implant)) story." Public health? Slicing women's chests open so that they can be stuffed with a close chemical relative of Silly Putty? Yes, indeed, because the plastic surgeons understand what the FDA is so reluctant to acknowledge: small breasts are not just a harmless challenge to the bikini wearer or would-be topless entertainer. They are a disease, a disfiguring illness for which the technical term is micromastia...
...ASPRS tried to explain to the FDA almost 10 years ago, "There is a substantial and enlarging body of medical information and opinion to the effect that these deformities ((small breasts)) are really a disease." Not a fatal disease, perhaps, to judge from the number of sufferers who are still hobbling around untreated, but a disease nonetheless, like the flu or TB. And anyone tempted to fault the medical establishment for inaction on breast cancer or AIDS should consider its quiet but no less heroic progress against the scourge of micromastia: in the past 30 years, 1.6 million victims have...
Once we understand that small breasts are a "disease," it's easier to see why Dow Corning and others rushed so breathlessly to get their implants onto the market. Why diddle around with slow, costly tests while an epidemic is raging out there? And everyone's life is touched by the tragedy of micromastia because everyone has a friend, sister, co-worker or wife who falls pitifully short in the mammary department. In the past, small groups of health-conscious males, typically gathered at construction sites, would offer free diagnoses to women passersby, but there was little that could...
...internal records if a problem is suspected. Congress woke up to the problem last fall, at Kessler's prodding, and introduced a bill that would have enabled the ( agency to seize corporate documents. The threat of a presidential veto halted the measure, though the new revelations about Halcion and breast implants seem likely to revive the initiative...
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