Bizarre Things You Didn't Know About Breast Implants
Japanese prostitutes led the wave of silicone
Believing that American servicemen preferred women with a larger chest, Japanese prostitutes led the wave -- albeit a very uneducated wave -- of augmentation by using stolen industrial-grade silicone to inject into their own breasts.
This would lead to "silicone rot" in which gangrene formed around the injection site, as well as chronic "pain, skin discoloration, ulceration, infection, disfigurement, breast loss, liver problems, respiratory distress and pulmonary embolism, and even coma and death."
This came from the fact that these women would use industrial-grade silicone as opposed to medical-grade silicone.
Complete list (Thrillist.com)
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