When to stop Bottle, and Breast Feeding
There are so many new things to learn as a first time parent, the learning curve can be steep especially without sleep! You might even be tempted to allow your baby to fall asleep every night with a bottle of milk, formula or juice. Not a good idea! Why not? Well, it puts the baby at risk for Baby Bottle Tooth Decay (BBTD). When your baby falls asleep with a bottle nipple in his mouth, the liquid will continue to drip out and pools around your baby’s teeth. A baby, who uses a bottle frequently throughout the day for comfort and security, as well as nutrition, is also at risk for BBTD.
What Causes Baby Bottle Tooth Decay?
What is the Best Age for Breast Augmentation?
If you plan to have breast augmentation you may be wondering, “What is the best age for breast augmentation?” Well, there are a few age considerations, and the best cosmetic surgeons follow Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendations.
When the FDA approved saline and silicone implants, it did so with concern that a woman’s breast development be complete at the time she had implant surgery, and that she be emotionally mature and fully-informed. Most plastic surgeons require women to be at least 18 years old for saline breast implants and 22 years old for silicone breast implants.
Reasons for Minimum Age for Breast Augmentation
Silicone Gel Breast Implants
Silicone Gel Breast Implants are FDA approved.
For years even the mention of silicone breast implants caused women everywhere to cringe. Many women may still remember when the FDA pulled silicone breast implants off the market because of their tendency to rupture. Now, after more than a decade, the FDA has APPROVED the use of gel filled silicone implants.
The FDA’s reasons for studying the new high strength gel silicone breast implants was purely for reasons of safety. Plastic surgeons like silicone gel implants, not only because they are safe, but because silicone breast enhancements feel and look completely natural. Dr. Pousti has been involved with two studies for Mentor Silicone Implants and Inamed Silicone Implants for the past 10 years and therefore has experience with using these silicone gel implants on many patients. These studies were in place to give the FDA the additional data they require before they would approve silicone breast implants for general use. Women who qualified for participation in these studies had to meet the following criteria:
• You are a mastectomy patient and are undergoing reconstructive surgery.
• You are having revisionary surgery and already have saline implants.
• You are having a breast lift (mastopexy), in addition to breast augmentation.
• You have a chest wall deformity (pectus excavatum, pectus carinatum, possibly scoliosis).
At this time, you do not need to meet the above criteria.
After rigorous scientific review, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the marketing of silicone gel-filled breast implants made by two companies for breast reconstruction in women of all ages and breast augmentation in women ages 22 and older. The products are made by Allergan Corp. (Formerly Inamed Corp.) and Mentor Corporation. Mentor Corp.’s silicone gel implants are called the MemoryGel Breast implants.