Foxy Lady over at Luke Ford wrote an interesting post about a new breast enhancement technique called a “Boob Jab”.
Here’s what Foxy found out:
The Boob Jab is a new procedure which is gaining popularity. Apparently it is a nonsurgical method of breast augmentation, where a hyaluronic acid injectable filler called Macrolane is injected via a 20 cm needle into the breast to augment it. The procedure costs $4000-7000 and lasts approximately 12-18 months.
I don’t mean to get all preachy on this fucking site, but sometimes certain things need to be said. Any women (including porn stars) who get a boob jabs are fucking idiots.
Don’t let anyone inject weird shit into your tits. Remember, you only have one body so you might want to do what you can to make it last. Your tits are important both to you and to me so don’t inject weird and unproven shit into them.
Macrolane is an injectable gel that is not approved by the FDA and very little research behind it as it relates to breast enhancement.
The fine print on the consent form you sign before undergoing the procedure lists possible side-effects that include hardening of the breasts, palpable lumps and capsular contraction just to name a couple.
A beauty journalist wrote about her Boob Jab experience in the Times Online and it wasn’t a good one:
Before I underwent the procedure the surgeon told me about the potential risks and in half an hour it was all done. Even with only 100ml of gel injected in each breast, I was suddenly shapely, almost a proper A-cup, and I was thrilled.
That was last March, and I went on being thrilled all summer until, by August, one breast had mysteriously gone rock hard while the other had shrunk to half its size. On holiday I resorted to padding out my sundress with a sock, to even them up. In September I went back for a top-up. My surgeon, Chris Inglefield at London Bridge Plastic Surgery, reckoned that the right breast had “encapsulated”, meaning the tissue around the injected gel had decided it was a foreign substance and started to harden up to fence it off, which used to be a regular problem with old-style breast implants; I hadn’t realised that it could happen.
Mr Inglefield broke up the encapsulation with firm massage, and gave me a top-up of Macrolane so that both sides were even. Again, I was delighted – though had I been a normal paying customer, I might have been less than delighted to be forking out [see prices, right]. But a few weeks later I found a lump, down to the side of the right breast. I shot back to see Mr Inglefield, who reassured me that it was nothing sinister, just a portion of the gel that had moved to one side and hardened. Firm massage should soften it up. It did. But by then I finally started asking questions.
Was it normal to have all these incidents in the space of eight months? I went back, belatedly, to the consent form. Right near the top was a surprise. “The use of Macrolane™ VRF20 and Macrolane™ VRF30 for breast enhancement has not been established,” it said.
She goes on to say she consulted with a plastic surgeon who was head of the London Clinic and he said he wouldn’t dream of using Macrolane for such a purpose. He said he has “significant reservations” about injecting a “foreign substance” directly into the tissue of the breast. Gee, you think?
I’m not a doctor nor do I have breasts, but I too have serious fucking reservations about injecting foreign substances into breasts.
My point to all this is that women need to stop and think long and hard before getting their body altered in some way. Having small tits is better than having fucked up tits or no tits at all.
Moreover, the price for a Boob Jab is between $4000 and $7000 bucks. If you’re willing to shell out that kind of doe, you should just get real breast implants which have a long track record of safety and research behind them.
