Posted on 03/29/2009 7:29:42 PM PDT by GOPGuide
A STEM cell therapy offering “natural” breast enlargement is to be made available to British women for the first time.
The treatment could boost cup size while reducing stomach fat. It involves extracting stem cells from spare fat on the stomach or thighs and growing them in a woman’s breasts. An increase of one cup size is likely, with the potential for larger gains as the technique improves.
A trial has already started in Britain to use stem cells to repair the breasts of women who have had cancerous lumps removed. A separate project is understood to be the first in Britain to use the new technique on healthy women seeking breast enlargement.
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“This is a very exciting advance in breast surgery,” said Mokbel. “They [breasts treated with stem cells] feel more natural because this tissue has the same softness as the rest of the breast.” He said the treatment offered the potential of considerable improvement on implants: “Implants are a foreign body. They are associated with long-term complications and require replacement. They can also leak and cause scarring.”
Although the stem cell technique will restore volume, it will not provide firmness and uplift.
Mokbel believes the stem cell treatment may be suitable only for modest increases in breast size, but will conduct research to find out whether larger augmentations can be achieved: “We are optimistic we can easily achieve an increase of one cup size. We cannot say yet if we can achieve more. That may depend on the stem cells we can harvest.”
The cells will be isolated from a woman’s spare fat, once it has been extracted from her thighs or stomach, using equipment owned by GE Healthcare, a technology company.
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Ridiculous priorities.
Ridiculous priorities.
Wow now if they could just get 1-800 dentist going over there they be awesome
LOL
Oh sure help women where it counts but not men!
Men have their pills.
Dollars to doughnuts that some “stimulus” money finds its way to this important research.
what is the point of making them bigger if they are still floppy and droopy?
the pills don’t naturally enlarge what is already there like this does. But to whatever company and add length and girth via stem cells or a pill will have the frist TRILLION dollar drug/procedure.
Women don’t know what they want. They say they want “big boobs”. Everybody knows that I’m a big boob, but they’re not interested. I don’t get it.
An increase of one cup size is likely, with the potential for larger gains as the technique improves.
Damn... gains... brains... I read that wrong.
Too bad it wasnt brains.
Breaking News!
Yay boobs!
I completely disagree.
This is the free market at work. There is a lot bigger market for breast enhancement than for many life-saving surgeries.
As silly as that may sound to you, the medical procedures developed here will soon find their way into other types of treatments. And the development costs will be paid by willing volunteers, not by tax money.
I completely disagree.
This is the free market at work. There is a lot bigger market for breast enhancement than for many life-saving surgeries.
As silly as that may sound to you, the medical procedures developed here will soon find their way into other types of treatments. And the development costs will be paid by willing volunteers, not by tax money.
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