Are Gummy Bear Implants Really So Sweet?
by Tracie O’Keefe After my last article on breast implant care and safety I received an irate telephone call from a woman who had had cohesive gel implants (C.G.I. Gummy Bears sometimes known as silicone gel implants) six years ago. In my article I said that C.G.I.s were experimental and I would like to clarify and expand on that further. The majority of our information on the long-term follow up of breast augmentation undoubtedly comes from America because the American Plastic Surgeons Association (A.P.S.A.) has some of the largest collected data. The A.P.S.A. also claims that more than 264,000 breast augmentations and nearly 63,000 breast reconstructions were performed in 2004 in America and such procedures are becoming much more frequent. One of the major things to remember, however, is what we call research bias and that researchers often only research the kind of results they would like to find. Methodological flaws in research happen also because of what a researcher neglects to
