Talk:Silicone (medical and surgical uses)

Reading the medical literature about cheek implants, chin implants, and breast implants brings one directly into the history of silicone for these uses. Hopefully, this article will eventually be complete enough to stand on its own. At the moment there is a natural tie-in to cosmetic and plastic surgery. Nancy Sculerati MD 14:07, 3 March 2007 (CST)

Allergy

Kunda LD. Stidham KR. Inserra MM. Roland PS. Franklin D. Roberson Jr JB. Silicone allergy: A new cause for cochlear implant extrusion and its management. [Journal: Article] Otology & Neurotology. Vol. 27(8)(pp 1078-1082), 2006.(2 cases said to ave "positive allergy testing", 3 cases cochlear implant extrusion, all culture negative)

Dermal filler

Johl SS. Burgett RA. Dermal filler agents: a practical review. Current Opinion in Ophthalmology. 17(5):471-9, 2006 Oct.

Injectable silicone for body contouring

Price EA. Schueler H. Perper JA. Massive systemic silicone embolism: A case report and review of literature. [Journal: Review] American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology. Vol. 27(2)(pp 97-102), 2006."The short-term effect of injected silicone is to enhance body shape and contour. Hollow cheeks can be filled, skin creases smoothed, lips may be made more full and sensual, clefts in chins removed, and breasts enlarged. Hips and thighs can be “sculpted” to create the appearance of a voluptuous woman. Male-hyped athletic features may also be “sculpted” by creating instant massive pectoral, back, or calf muscles. However, those short-term benefits are greatly outbalanced by numerous and serious complications, including “melting” or “shifting” of the silicone primary site with migration to secondary sites, discoloration and inflammation of adjacent areas, lipodystrophy, nodular granulomas, cystic lesions and ulcerations, disfiguring scarring, respiratory problems, and potentially fatal silicone embolism. We report such a fatal silicone embolism in a heterosexual female."

Dawn SK. Elicker BM. Leung JWT. Reddy GP. Gotway MB. The silicone syndrome. [Journal: Article] Clinical Pulmonary Medicine. Vol. 13(2)(pp 146-147), 2006."Silicone syndrome is an uncommon entity that results from migration of free liquid silicone into the pulmonary capillaries following subcutaneous injection. Once the free silicone reaches the pulmonary circulation, it induces interstitial inflammation, increased capillary permeability, alveolar edema, and alveolar hemorrhage, and produces a syndrome that clinically and pathophysiologically resembles fat embolization syndrome."

Unregulated use

1. 1. The Straits Times (Singapore), March 11, 2001, Sunday, South-East Asia, Pg. 18, 659 words, Silicone dreams shattered, Devi Asmarani, Straits Times Indonesia Bureau"They wanted perfect noses, fuller lips and voluptuous breasts. What they ended up with instead were grotesque snouts, disfigured lips and breast cancer.Thousands of women in Indonesia have become victims of a trendy beauty treatment called the silicone injection."

1. 2. The Straits Times (Singapore), January 25, 1997, Pg. 1, 747 words, Fatal silicone injection: Beautician jailed 15 months, Yasmeen Hameed

(A BEAUTICIAN attempted to tighten a woman's vagina by injecting it with silicone in a hotel room last year but killed her instead when she had a bad drug reaction. Yesterday, Tung Sai Gaik pleaded guilty in a district court to causing the woman's death by a rash act, not amounting to culpable homicide, and was sentenced to 15 months' jail.)

Criminal use

Since injection of silicone can be done by individuals who are not highly trained, there have been cases of lay individuals Practicing cosmetic surgery without a license" using this technique. Complications, including fatal embolism, are not rare. Major newspapers report cases all over United States.

1. 1. Man sentenced to 5 years for fatal silicone injection, The Houston Chronicle, March 10, 2005, Thursday, 3 STAR EDITION, B;, Pg. 5, 405 words, ANDREW TILGHMAN, Deaths Prison Sentences. (A transgendered man who lived as a woman was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for giving another man a fatal injection of liquid silicone designed to create female-sized breasts)

1. 2. Woman is sought in injections case, The San Diego Union-Tribune, June 25, 2005 Saturday, LOCAL; Pg. B-2:2,7; B-3:1, 129 words, Jenny Shearer (woman in California, non-medical professional allegedly injected several transgendered people. "Two of the five people who received injections in their buttocks, hips, cheeks and lips became ill within hours and are on life support. One isn't expected to live, police said."

1. 3. Woman accused of illegal injections; Silicone used to 'pump up' bodies, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 5, 2004 Thursday, Home Edition, Pg. 1JJ, 711 words, LATEEF MUNGIN, JEFFRY SCOTT

(When she was arrested Tuesday, investigators found a room in her home that had examination tables, 12 gallons of silicone and topical anesthetics. They also found waste thought to have been used in 20 to 30 surgeries, such as blood-soaked gauze and silicone-stained syringes, Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter said. )

1. 4. Floridians pay high price in pursuit of beauty; Illegal silicone injections have resulted in disfigurement, death, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin), April 24, 2001 Tuesday, FINAL EDITION, Pg. 12A, 832 words, THOMAS C. TOBIN St. Petersburg Times (Vera Lawrence, a 53- year-old Miami secretary and mother of two, died last month in the Broward County suburb of Miramar with 36 fresh needle marks in her hips and buttocks. She allegedly was injected in a friend's apartment by Mark D. Hawkins, a 36- year-old man from Greenville, S.C., who also worked as a house cleaner.

Hawkins was charged with manslaughter, third-degree felony murder and practicing medicine without a license after an autopsy showed Lawrence died from a silicone embolism in one of her lungs.)

1. 5. 3 NABBED AS PHONY CLINIC DOCS, Daily News (New York), April 21, 2001, Saturday, NATIONAL EDITION, NEWS;, Pg. 10, 375 words, By RICHARD WEIR and JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS(Police arrested three phony doctors and a fake nurse at a Queens clinic that offered discount plastic surgery and dental work, authorities said yesterday.The outfit was exposed after a 33-year-old woman was hospitalized with a serious infection from a silicone injection in her buttocks.)