U.S. plastic surgeons Thomas Cronin and Frank Gerow, of the Dow Corning Corporation, produced a prosthetic breast in 1961, with the first augmentation mammoplasty performed the next year. Out of the 307,000 women who had breast augmentation in 2011, about 96,000 of them underwent reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy. After undergoing a mastectomy, women can…

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