The Hazards Of Silicone
Like millions of American women, Debra Craft wanted bigger breasts. Seven years ago, at 23, she got them by way of foam-covered silicone implants, “I asked a plastic surgeon what the risks were,” she says, “and he told me there weren’t any, aside from possible complications of anesthesia. He said they were a lifetime thing,” But Craft, an insurance claims representative from Orange, Calif., is convinced that silicone leaking from her implants is responsible for a variety of health problems she has suffered for the past six years....