Robert Whitfield MD traces breast augmentation from early synthetic sponges like Ivalon and failed injections to the breakthrough of silicone gel implants. Surgeons experimented with whatever materials they had before silicone changed the field entirely.
Everyone to episode two, Sponges, Ivalon and the rise of breast Implants. Now we're moving into this next phase of sponges. And I read several papers about sponges and, and it was interesting. Surgeons were looking for alternatives, and sponges had been used for various reasons as a synthetic implant. And after these failures of injections, this, you know, set the stage for this. However, that did not happen. We shift into the era of the introduction of silicone gel implants, the first of which was placed by doctor.
