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Article: Silicone implants gain popularity as evidence of safety mounts.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
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- September 8, 2000
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WASHINGTON _ If silicone and saline breast implants are so terribly dangerous, why do so many women continue to line up for elective surgery using those devices?
At the Estetika Institute, a posh cosmetic and plastic surgery "rejuvenation" center in Las Vegas, doctors perform hundreds of implant procedures annually. There is one plastic surgeon for every 37,500 residents in Las Vegas _ a ratio exceeded only by Washington, D.C. "The Strip," as Vegas is informally known, is fast becoming a Mecca for people seeking to improve upon what nature endowed them with _ or to repair damage caused by disease or injury.
Other cities are witnessing a similar growth in ...