[Tman]

Dee Dee deluxx was also know as Malibu Slick. In her website:
http://www.deedeedeluxx.com/

She says that she bought Busty Dusty´s last set of implants, and those are the ones she has now.

Do you think this is true?


Tman


 

[bustykathi]

I don't know DeeDee and I've only met Busty Dusty once (she's more beautiful in person than even her pictures illustrate), but I seriously doubt that any reputable medical person would put one woman's discarded implants into another woman's body. Eeewwww! And, I doubt that they'd be in any condition to be "transplanted" after they were removed, anyway.

Any other more experienced-with-implants-than-me women out there know anything about this?  

[Elliot James]

Medically, it can be done so I believe what Dee Dee/Chrissy/Malibu has told me. She has an ad in the current June 02 SCORE for her website.  

[ggk]

Gosh Kathi, why would she lie about that? Her boobs are obviously huge, so what would be the point?    

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[melonie_charm]

I'm not the least bit surprised to hear that Dee Dee has 'recycled' implants.  Considering the fact that obtaining new custom made implants in large sizes in the USA is virtually impossible, and that obtaining new custom made implants in a foreign country costs more than a new Mercedes, there would be considerable financial advantages to obtaining 'used' implants.  For a fact, implants, like any other medical device, can be sterilized and resterilized.  But as Kathi points out (hi Kathi - be seeing you soon!), there are ethics and risks involved with recycling implants.

  The one I would worry about the most is that 'used' implant bags have already been folded 10 million times by their former owner, meaning that the probability of developing a bag failure or leak is much much higher.  IMHO it would be a real bitch to invest thousands into getting 'used' implants, plus investing more thousands into promoting yourself and your website, when just at the moment when things start to take off with magazine offers, website signups, feature bookings etc. your left breast turns back into a C cup overnight due to a 'flat tire', and with no 'spare tire' plus no chance of obtaining one!  

[Boobcat]

This isn't the first time I've heard of a model with 'recycled' implants.  I remember talking to a feature dancer at Flashdancers NYC who had (I think) Traci Topp's implants.  Of course, it's bugging the hell out of me that I can't remember which feature it was....

[ggk]

"there are ethics and risks involved with recycling implants. "

Ethics involved?  Such as?    

[Dixie DeLite]

Yeah, what Ethics are we talking about?  And as for risks, anything has a risk. Get up in the morning and oops, there's a risk. You have the same risk involved with a new set of implants as a recycled set. If everything works out then the "lifetime" of the implants might be shorter with recycled. But, hey, who lives forever anyway?  

[Tux]

I just find the notion a bit odd.  It's sort of like "I met Busty Dusty the other day—well actually I met the woman who had her old implants...so I guess I met her breasts the other day then."  It just reminds me a bit too much of that scene from "AI" where they dump all of those android ('mecha' as the call them in the film, a term I agree with) parts in the forest and all of the discarded androids salvage the used parts.

[ggk]

If you don't find the notion of putting plastic bags full of fluid, surgically into a womans body odd, then reusable ones should not be such a stretch.  These things are built to last. Implants should last longer than the woman or women wearing them. Otherwise, who would want implants that expire?

 

[melonie_charm]

The 'recycled implants' you saw at Flashdancers now belong to my friend Treasure Chest.  They were formerly the property of Traci Topps, who 'traded them in' upon her retirement.    

The 'ethical' issue is not my ethics or any other girl's ethics, but the ethics of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, and of US Hospitals and Clinics.  Their policy is to never use a medical device which isn't fresh out of a factory sealed bag with an FDA approval stamp.  This policy prevents new custom made implants from being used in America even though they are fresh from a factory sealed bag (with the factory being in Europe not America) because they do not have the FDA approval stamp.  This policy is even stronger against reuse of a medical device which has previously been in contact with body tissues of another person.

[melonie_charm]

well, the fact is that implants using silicone rubber bags DO have a finite life.  Statistics on 'average sized' implants show that girls who get bag type implants filled with silicone have a 50% chance of one implant leaking after 20 years.  The same statistics also show that the exact same bag type implants filled with saline have a 50% chance of one implant leaking after 10 years.  The 'failure mechanism' is most often erosion of the bag material at points where folds in the bag occur, because the bag material is repeatedly folded at one spot every time the girl's breasts move.  This is the same principle that makes it easy to tear paper if you fold it in the same place several times.  The reason that saline filled implants are likely to fail sooner is that salt water is an abrasive compared to liquid silicone which is a lubricant.  This difference has an impact on the erosion rate of the bag.  I don't know of any statistics on custom made large implant bags versus 'normal sized' catalog implants, but the same principle certainly applies.

The studies also show that the primary cause of implant folds in the first place is by not filling the implant bags to full capacity.  Implants filled to maximum capacity tend to have that round firm fake look, and tend to stick out a lot.  Implants filled below capacity tend to look more natural, which is the reason that many girls and plastic surgeons do not/will not max them out, but also have more folds.   This problem was serious enough that based on the study results the US implant manufacturers put out advisory bulletins to plastic surgeons to fill the implant bags above the published ratings.  

But to totally remove all of the folds for maximum reliability, it is necessary to 'overfill' the implant bags beyond maximum capacity.  This gives them an outright 'baseball' look (or softball or basketball as the case may be).  Maxi Mound's old implants prior to her getting string are a perfect example of 'overfilled' implants.

The reason that you don't hear a lot about bag type implant failures is that something like 50% of all girls that get them wind up having them replaced well before a 10 year period for reasons other than leakage.  The primary reason is that many girls 'trade them in' for larger ones, and with complications like capsular contracture, infection etc. being responsible for forced implant replacement in other cases.  The only implants which are likely to last a lifetime are the polypropylene string implants like I have.  Of course, if they keep growing an inch or two a year things could get pretty scary 20 or 30 years down the road LOL.  

[ggk]

I see the ethics you are talking about. Are string implants FDA approved?  

[melonie_charm]

There was an original 'case study' done where 60 girls received string implants, and I was obviously one of the 60.  The FDA has never approved string implants for general use, and once the 'case study' experiment was over, string implants could no longer be done - either for new patients or even for girls who were part of the original study.  In order to obtain an approval for general use, it is my understanding that a very expensive FDA device approval submission is necessary.  Considering that 'normal sized' bag type implants are sold for $1500-$2000 a pair by US implant companies, where string implant material was sold for about $5 by the same people that make clothesline rope, the US implant companies would logically have very little interest in investing $100,000+ in an FDA device approval study to obtain approval for a product which would erase their profits.  Unless some millionaire with a big tit fetish agrees to bankroll an approval study, and after that the FDA agrees to stab the US bag implant companies in the heart by approving a competitive product which sells for a tiny fraction of the cost of their present product, string implants will never again be available in the USA.