Women today are bombarded with images and with messages encouraging them to look younger. We’re told aging is a bad thing. Is this really where we are as women in the new millennium? What was the sexual revolution and fighting for women’s rights all about? It wasn’t merely about being able to burn a bra. Wasn’t one of the messages from our “older sisters” that we as women are about much more than our looks?
Cosmetic Surgery
Breast Implants through the Years
Vincenz Czerny, also known as the father of cosmetic breast surgery or breast enlargements, was the
first physician to try his hand at creating breast implants. In 1895 he moved a benign lump from the patients back to her breast cavity.
Later in the 1800's another physician tried to create the perfect breasts through injections. This patient was injected with paraffin. This case did