תיקצר: פרופ' יוסף חייק

The first silicone gel-filled breast implant was invented in 1962 by Thomas Cronin, a plastic surgeon from Texas, USA. He was inspired by a hanging transfusion bag, namely a drop-shaped bag similar to the appearance of a breast. Dow Chemical Company, USA, manufactured a similar sac filled with silicone. Its shell was made of two parts of silicone elastomer filled with moderately viscous silicone gel [1,2]. An 86-year-old female (born in 1933) underwent one of the first breast augmentations with silicone gel-filled implants in Israel more than 50 years ago. She was referred to our department for bilateral implant extraction in 2019 due to nonspecific breast discomfort.