{"id":39753,"date":"2021-03-04T10:34:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T09:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.yuveo.eu\/lexikon\/history-of-breast-augmentation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:39:40","slug":"history-of-breast-augmentation","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/history-of-breast-augmentation\/","title":{"rendered":"History of breast augmentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>This page briefly outlines the most important stages in the more than 100-year history of breast augmentation:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In <strong>1895<\/strong>, the first attempt at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/op\/breast-surgery-duesseldorf\/breast-augmentation\/\">breast augmentation<\/a> was made by Vincenz Czerny, a German-Austrian doctor. It was a tumor patient whose breast Czerny enlarged with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/lipoma\/\">lipoma<\/a> (benign fatty tumor) in order to achieve better symmetry after cancer surgery. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Before 1962<\/strong>, various materials (plastic sponges, ivory, glass balls, rubber &#8230;) were inserted or injected into the breast for breast augmentation. Liquid silicone was just one of them. The consequences of these sometimes non-sterile procedures were often devastating and led to hardening, scarring and infections. The desire for a larger, more aesthetic breast sometimes even ended in a mastectomy.   <\/li>\n<li>In <strong>1962<\/strong>, the development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/op\/breast-surgery-duesseldorf\/breast-implants\/\">silicone implant<\/a> by Cronin and Gerow was the starting signal for breast augmentation.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>1972 and 1973,<\/strong> Troques and H\u00f6hler described the axillary approach in breast augmentation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990s<\/strong>: endoscopic procedures were used.<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 1992<\/strong>: The FDA bans the use of silicone breast implants for aesthetic breast augmentation in the USA. There is a lack of adequate studies proving the safety of silicone over a longer period of time. Silicone implants are still permitted for breast reconstruction after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/op\/breast-surgery-duesseldorf\/\">breast cancer surgery<\/a> if other implants are not suitable from a medical point of view.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong>: large-scale recall of soybean oil implants due to the suspected formation of toxic substances in the event of damage to the implant shell<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong>: Hydrogel implants, which were also used for breast augmentation, are withdrawn from the market. The harmlessness of the hydrogel or its degradation products was not sufficiently proven. <\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong> <strong>Silicone implants<\/strong> are approved for breast augmentation in Europe. In large-scale studies, silicone was classified as harmless to health. Today, it is considered the best-studied material in medicine.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>In Nov. 2006<\/strong>  silicone implants for cosmetic breast augmentation are approved by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) in the USA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the history of breast augmentation, you will find further information on the operation and its techniques as well as pre- and post-treatment. Our D\u00fcsseldorf team will introduce you to the topic of implants under breast implants. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plastic surgery &#8211; Krupp &#8211; Ecomed &#8211; 2008 &#8211; (ring binder)<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetic surgery &#8211; Lemperle, von Heimburg &#8211; Ecomed &#8211; 2008 &#8211; (ring binder)<\/li>\n<li>Plastic Surgery &#8211; Berger, Hierner &#8211; Springer &#8211; Volume 3: Mamma, Stamm &#8211; Berlin 2006<\/li>\n<li>Plastic Surgery &#8211; Mathes &#8211; 8 Volumes &#8211; Saunders; Edition: Uitgawe &#8211; 2005<\/li>\n<li>Plastic Surgery &#8211; Grabb &amp; Smith &#8211; Lippinkott Williams &amp; Wilkins &#8211; Philadelphia USA &#8211; 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of breast augmentation is over 100 years old. Here we present the most important stages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-tag":[12,14,16],"class_list":["post-39753","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-tag-brust","encyclopedia-tag-brustvergroesserung","encyclopedia-tag-geschichte"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/39753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=39753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}