Breast augmentation

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I think the health concerns are overwhelming. I would ask your wife to watch YouTube videos in which women explain how many things went wrong with their health due to implants. I actually don’t think the morality matters much in view of those health concerns.
 
I remember an old girlfriend asking me once, apropos of nothing, what I thought of breast implants. It was like a Vietnam movie where the guy just realizes he’s in a minefield and time slows.
 
I think too that a decision re breast implant is alone between the partners in a marriage. Breasts with a woman can be very important re self image, especially after having breast fed a child.

Be all that as it may, there are many potential problems, risks, around having plastic surgery. There can also be very deep issues why a woman would seek breast implants - which can mean that while initially pleased and contented after surgery, not all that long after further self image problems or similar can surface.

Again were it me, I would, together with my partner, be going into all the issues around breast implants prior to making any decision, especially the risks involved with surgery. I might be very wrong, but I don’t think there are any mandated unqualified moral problems involved re plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons per se.
 
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It sounds to me like she has a self esteem problem. I would never want my wife to have any surgery that risks her health for an unnecessary procedure.
 
Jen7 said:
Why does she want to do this?? I’d really dig for a good answer from her. Does she feel you don’t appreciate her breasts as they are? I’d ask her allll about her feelings, why she’d feel better with bigger breasts etc. Focus on her FEELINGS. My guess is she feels really, deeply lousy for some reason and it has nada to do with her boobs.

A consideration for her: she may feel worse after the surgery. If folks (including husband) compliment, notice, or enjoy the boobs, won’t she wonder if they’re only reacting positively to her because of the FAKE boobs??
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Then again, what if the surgery went wrong? It is a serious procedure, and there are some truly horrific possible compications.

I’d hate to have totally unnecessary major surgery and end up irreparably scarred, injured or worse
 
wonderingCatholic said:
… Is there Any Catholic teaching on breast implants?..
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Consider well the health implications.

Boxed Warning (FDA)
  • Breast implants are not considered lifetime devices;
  • The chance of developing complications increases over time;
  • Some complications will require more surgery;
  • Breast implants have been associated with the development of a cancer of the immune
    system called breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL);
  • BIA-ALCL occurs more commonly in patients with textured breast implants than smooth
    implants, and deaths have occurred from BIA-ALCL; and
  • Breast implants have been associated with systemic symptoms.
 
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Thank you everyone for not attacking me in your answers. I have personally had multiple surgeries, the last being 12 hours. Surgery scares the living daylights out of me. We never processed it being a serious surgery for some reason. She can daydream, but I love my wife the way she is.
 
Vico said:
Consider well the health implications.

Boxed Warning (FDA)
  • Breast implants are not considered lifetime devices;
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In others word, there will probably need other operations to be changed…

Does the recent scandals over the fraudulent implants make women more suspicious?

I note that your wife is breastfdeeding. It seems a strange coincidence during that time… Does your wife had a complex over this part of herself before having children, or something happened?
 
Many years ago a new friend of mine shared that breast implants for augmentation that she had many years ago were beginning to leak and cause problems.

I don’t know what came of that, because we had lost being in touch with one another.
 
I’ve never had to concern myself with this issue but I too would be worried about them springing a leak over time. It seems likely that if someone gets them when they’re a young woman and then lives another 50 or 60 years, they might not last that long in the body without leaking or deteriorating, and would need to be removed or replaced at some point.

My other beef with them is that to my eyes they all look extremely unnatural. This had the good effect of turning me off to a lot of porn when I was younger, because the implanted breasts, which were on almost every woman, looked ugly to my eyes.
 
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My other beef with them is that to my eyes they all look extremely unnatural. This had the good effect of turning me off to a lot of porn when I was younger, because the implanted breasts, which were on almost every woman, looked ugly to my eyes.
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And at least some of them are quite hard. Like, disconcertingly so.

I only know this because we had a friend who had a boob job and then gave me a hug when we met her for dinner. It was like being hit in the chest by two torpedos.
 
My two centavos’ worth:

For reconstruction after surgery, absolutely. I would not want to see a woman remain maimed in that way, unless she chose to do so.

For cosmetic purposes, I don’t like them, don’t like the very concept. All women are beautiful, just in different ways. I tend towards naturalness and organicism in all aspects of life, including this one. I don’t even like tattoos — not permitted to condemn them, I am determined to make the Church’s silence on these my own silence as well (sentire cum ecclesia!), but I still don’t like them. The Church does not say we have to like them.

I let my family talk me into having two crowns inserted (19 years old) to head off a potential Letterman-esque space between my teeth. They have been nothing but a pain in the tuchas for 41 years! To this day I have to have them re-attached from time to time, and have to be careful with flossing. I think I’d rather have the space. Such a thing never prevented actor Terry-Thomas or model Lauren Hutton from being incredibly attractive people. Europeans aren’t so uptight about such things.
 
Well, I have had to get two or three crowns because my teeth broke. Just one day I was eating something that wasn’t even crunchy and the tooth broke. It was worn out. So far they are staying on okay and it’s certainly much easier to chew with an intact tooth, also it saves me from having it break so badly that it would need to be pulled.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Well, I have had to get two or three crowns because my teeth broke. Just one day I was eating something that wasn’t even crunchy and the tooth broke. It was worn out. So far they are staying on okay and it’s certainly much easier to chew with an intact tooth, also it saves me from having it break so badly that it would need to be pulled.
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They weren’t broken, they were perfectly good teeth that were whittled down to accommodate the crowns and force the two front teeth not to spread. Bad mistake. Typical American trait of going in and jacking around with something that shouldn’t be jacked around with.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

When I am elected Pope, I’m going to have this carved into a sign and put on my desk, similar to Truman’s “the buck stops here”.
 
My mother-in-law has breast implants and seems to need them redone every 10 to 15 years. I don’t know if technology has improved to make them last longer, but it seems to be signing oneself up for a lot of future surgeries, sufferings and costs.
 
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Moral issues aside, do some research into Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL). It is an aggressive T-Cell Lymphoma and is associated with implants.
 
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