Breast implants have been mainly designed for the purpose of reconstructing breasts (after mastectomy), or to simply augmenting them. Regardless of the plethora of attempts to generate types of breast implants; however, only a few of them have been acknowledge: hydrogel filled implants, saline-filled, and silicone filled implants. Moreover, there is also currently in development a tissue engineering implant, which consists of grafting stilt cells originated from liposuctioned fat with a suitable framework material to produce a Tissue Engineered Breast Implant. According to Dr. Mao Jeremy, this tissue implant has the potential to fundamentally change not only breast surgeries but also other reconstructive surgery (cited in Roberts, 2005). Nonetheless, the outcomes remain to be seen.
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