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What Are the Risks? As with any medical procedure, patients may experience certain complications--most temporary--including a prolonged redness of skin, tenderness, easy flushing, and some pigmentary changes, like hyperpigmentation, when the skin appears darker than normal, says Rox Anderson, M.D., director of the Laser Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Other risks are more serious, and possibly permanent, including hypopigmentation, or lightening of the skin. "Somewhere between one to two years after treatment it becomes clear that there is a permanent lightening of the skin color where the resurfacing was done," he says.
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The Inamed Corporation PMA for Silicone-Filled Breast Implants (P020056) was recommended as “not approvable” by a 5 to 4 vote. Among the reasons given by the panel for their vote was the need for additional patient follow-up data and the inadequate performance of the Style 153 device. On April 13, 2005, Mentor Corporation presented a summary of their Silicone Gel-Filled Breast Implant PMA data and FDA presented their review of the data.
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