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Below is your guideline to all of the information you could possibly need about types of breast implants including saline, silicone, cohesive, gummybear, round, anatomical, high profile, low profile and moderate profile.

Here are 5 basic questons to answer before you choose an implant:

1. What fill?

2. What size?

3. What shape?

4. What surface?

5. What Profile / Projection?

1. Breast Implant Fill - Saline or Silicone?

Women today have options in breast implant fill. The first implants were filled with silicone gel. As breast implants evolved, saline (salt water) became an accepted alternative fill to silicone. Silicone can look and feel more like a real breast. Whether filled with silicone or salt water, the shell of both types is made of a firmer, silicone elastomer.

In 1992, FDA Commissioner David Kessler decided that the safety of silicone breast implants had not been established. The FDA then removed silicone breast implants from the market. Since 1992, silicone gel-filled implants have been available only to breast reconstruction patients and patients undergoing breast revision surgery. In order to receive silicone implants, women must be enrolled in clinical trials.
The current ban on silicone implants may soon be lifted.

Saline Implants Silicone Implants

2. Breast Implant Size - What is right for you?

How big your breasts going to be after surgery depend on primarily two size issues:

1) How big are you now?

2) What size implant will you choose? Your doctor will discuss other non-size factors.

Methods of choosing implant size.

Don’t choose your own cc volume. Most patients may not understand all of the variables (ribcage size, chest shape, existing breast volume) that will dictate what a given implant size will do for them. Your plastic surgeon has years of training and experience to rely helping you decide on the right size implant and fill. Choose the right Breast Implant from among the manufacturer’s specifications, with your Surgeon to create a fit and size that is custom to your body type.

3. Breast Implant Shape - Round or Anatomical / Teardrop

Now that you have the right size picked out, do you want round or anatomical (also known as shaped or “tear drop”) breast implants? Anatomical implants are meant to mimic the slope of a natural breast. However, a round implant when not lying down, takes on basically the same shape.

Round Implants.

What’s natural looking? Round implants, placed under the muscle may have a more natural appearance than shaped/contour implants which can appear somewhat elongated in appearance in some women. Shaped implants tend to remain stationary, so they stay in the same place. When a woman lies down, round implants on the other hand, settle back evenly, like normal breasts. When a woman stands up, the saline goes to the bottom of the implants because of gravity, and the implants assume a natural teardrop shape anyway.

Anatomical/ Teardrop.

These are all terms used to describe an implant that is manufactured to be pre-shaped. Unlike a round implant, a “shaped” implant by design has a top and a bottom (it is tear drop shaped). These have a textured surface to avoid the implant flipping, leaving the implant upside down and misshapen in appearance. (This can be corrected but it is not a usual occurrence.) Unlike round implants, a teardrop implant will maintain the same shape lying down, which can appear unnatural in some women.

Round Breast Implants Shaped Breast Implant

4. Breast Implant Surface -Textured Surface or Smooth Surface.

You’ve picked out a round or anatomical implant. You can choose a smooth surface breast implant or a textured surface breast implant.

Textured Implants.

Why do some implants have textured surfaces? All types of solutions have been attempted for decades to prevent scar tissue from becoming unacceptably hard around the breast implant. The body causes scar tissue to form around any foreign object in the body. The formation of scar tissue is known as capsular contracture when it becomes painful or unacceptably firm. Textured surface implants are an attempt to solve this problem. By adding a textured surface, manufacturers hope to prevent scar tissue fibers from lying down uniformly.

According to a number of studies, a textured surface is not likely to reduce the risk of capsular contracture but other studies do find a reduction in contracture. Ask your doctor what his or her experience has been and what is best for you. Unfortunately, the same characteristics of a textured surface that may cause the scar tissue to form erratically around the textured implant. This may cause the implant to appear rippled in appearance. Furthermore, textured implants often have thicker shells and may be firmer in appearance and palpability.

Smooth Surface Implants.

Most breast implants have a smooth surface. Since there is little consensus on whether textured implants will actually reduce the rate of contracture significantly enough to warrant other potential disadvantages discussed above, many doctors prefer to use smooth, round implants. Most often, implants are placed under the muscle in order to potentially reduce the incidence of capsular contracture.

5. Breast Implant Profile - Low, Moderate, High, or Moderate Plus.

Until recently, most patients never discussed profile with their plastic surgeons. If you chose a certain size implant, you would receive a determined amount of forward projection from that size implant. Now, you can choose an implant size and, if you like, have that size implant stick out more, or less than the base diameter would usually dictate. This works well for certain body types. Note the different heights below. For a woman with a very narrow frame, a moderate or low profile implant might result in a desired size, but may be too wide and carry the implant too far to the cleavage and underarm. By using a high profile implant, this patient can get the larger implant he/she desires. By the same token, a wide framed patient may find that in order to adequately cover the natural diameter of their breast size, the desired implant would have far too much projection. A low or moderate profile might work better. Your plastic surgeon can help you choose.

Low Profile Implants.

These breast implants have less projection per measurement of base diameter than a moderate profile breast implant.

Moderate(Medium) Profile Implants.

This breast implant profile is the “normal” profile.

High Profile Implants.

These breast implants have more projection per measurement of base diameter than a moderate profile breast implant. An added benefit of the high profile is that in order to create the profile, the side wall of the implant has more height, which may reduce visible rippling.

Moderate Plus Profile.

Both saline and silicone also includes this profile that is between moderate and high profile(limited).

Complete article with pictures: http://www.1cosmeticsurgery.com/Breast_Implants_Saline_Silicone.shtml

Email - today’s preferred business communication tool - provides you a simple, powerful, affordable way to develop, manage and maintain relationships as well as sell products and services. Let’s briefly examine how permission-based email marketing positively affects:

* Brand Awareness

* Market Intelligence

* Web Traffic

* Prospect Leads

* Loyalty

Build Brand Awareness. Email builds brand awareness by promoting the name, the look, feel and image of your company. Users now prefer HTML email to text email. HTML email gives you the ability to include logos and other corporate images to reinforce your existing brand.

Increase Market Intelligence. Permission-based email allows you easily to survey your current customer base to solicit feedback on your website, customer service, products and services. With this baseline survey in hand, you can gauge how attitudes and awareness are changing over time. And with the capabilities of professional email programs, you can segment the results to see differences between established and more recent customers. Results such as these help you tweak and tune marketing and public relations efforts.

Drive Website Traffic. Your website can be one of your primary tools for customer acquisition and retention. People must visit the site in order for you to capture them as clients or up-sell them on other services. Email marketing programs can bring new visitors to the site and established customers back again.

Generate Leads. An email newsletter containing worthwhile content, or a promotional offer with a high-perceived value can be used as incentives to convince prospects to provide their email addresses. Once you have their addresses, you can initiate dialogue that results in acquiring and retaining the right kinds of customers. Profitable customers.

Build Loyalty. In our opinion, building loyalty is the most important feature of an email program. Permission-based communication allows you to build customer loyalty, and customer loyalty kicks off a series of positive events
including:

* market share increases because acquisition costs are amortized, allowing you to realize the lifetime value of a customer

* Some studies show that it costs six times more to acquire a customer as to retain one

* The Harvard Business Review reports that cutting customer defections by just five percent can result in profitability increases of as much as 35 percent

* sustainable growth continues because you have a solid base of customers who will refer others

* attract better employees who in turn deliver better value to customers

You no longer have a good reason for not using permission-based email marketing to unleash the power of customer relationships.

Harry Hoover is managing principal of Hoover ink PR, http://www.hoover-ink.com. He has 26 years of experience in crafting and delivering bottom line messages that ensure success for serious businesses like Brent Dees Financial Planning, Duke Energy, Levolor, North Carolina Tourism, Ty Boyd Executive Learning Systems, VELUX and Verbatim.

Mexico does not have much in the way of flora or fauna that will kill you. Unlike Australia, where almost everything can kill you, Mexico is harmlessto a point.

Mexico does have one of the most lethal scorpions in the world. “About 20 scorpion species worldwide also have venom potent enough to be considered deadly to humans. The world’s most dangerous scorpions live in North Africa, the Middle East, South America, India, and Mexico.”

In an article written by Dr. Charlie Easmon called Scorpion Stings and Spider Bites, he says, “In Mexico each year 1000-2000 deaths occur from scorpion bites”.

I’ve had the privilege of being stung by a Mexican scorpion. It was riding on our broom where my right index finger was when it attacked me. However, it was not one of the lethal ones because I am typing these words and not pushing up daisies. (I squashed it into oblivion!)

Mexico also has its share of deadly coral snakes and a nasty snake called the Fer-de-lance. Take my word for it that you don’t want to mess with either of these snakes. Do what I do should you encounter a snake in Mexico: Run screaming in the other direction like a girlie-man. I demonstrated this technique last spring when a snake (a harmless one) got into our kitchen and crawled across my right foot.

There is a strange plant in the jungles of Puerto Vallarta that has some strange and disturbing properties. The locals call it by a specific name that describes its hideously poisonous effects. I cannot confirm its name but I can confirm its effects because during the Christmas of 2004, I ran into it during our visit to Puerto Vallarta.

True to the local’s description, this plant did a number on my skin and a part of my body that real men hold near and dear. It apparently is like poison ivy in that it covers your body with the most painful itching rash you can possibly imagine.
You have to seek medical attention. Don’t play around with this!

The other side effect of casually walking through its evil spores is that, if you are a male of our species, it causes your testicles to swell up to the size of tangerines! I am not making this up! I was in torturous pain and agony for most of 8 weeks! I am better. Thanks for asking.

It seems Mexico’s flora and fauna come looking for me regularly. I don’t know what it is, but since moving here, we discovered a nest of scorpions in our apartment. I was stung by one. There was that snake in our kitchen that caused me to embarrass myself with my womanly screaming. Then, of all things, my wife comes rushing into the bedroom this afternoon to tell me there is a hawk in the dining room.

There in our dining room was a small crow-sized hawk desperately afraid and trying to get out of our house into which he accidentally came to call.

See what I mean?

The creature was beautiful but it had to go. I got the trash can lid, in case it decided to maul me, and the broom (I checked for scorpions). My plan was to shoo it out the front door that we had opened. To my amazement, the raptor jumped onto the broom and perched there until I hauled its little feathery butt out the front door.

Now, this should not stop you from expatriating to Mexico. Just because we have here one of the top 5 deadliest scorpions in the world that will nest in your house, two snakes whose venom makes a cobra look like a stuffed toy, snakes coming in the kitchen, and birds of prey that will fly into your home; these shouldn’t stop you from coming to live in Mexico.

See you soon!

Expatriates Doug and Cindi Bower have successfully expatriated to Mexico, learning through trial and error how to do it from the conception of the initial idea to driving up to their new home in another country. Now the potential expatriate can benefit from their more than three years of pre-expat research to their more than two years of actually living in Mexico. The Plain Truth about Living in Mexico answers the potential expatriate’s questions by leading them through the process from the beginning to the end. In this comprehensive guide, you will learn not only how-to expatriate but will learn what to expect, in daily life, before coming to Mexico.
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