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Facial implants were first used for reconstruction for birth defects and trauma related incidents such as scarring after accidents, in the late 1950s. Body implants have been used in a similar way to correct defects, which have existed since birth, or to put right tissue loss, which has occurred through injury or disease.
<a title="Breast Implants" href="https://www.consultingroom.com/Treatments/Breast-Implants-Enlargement" target="_self">Breast implants</a> have been in use since the 1960s to help women who have lost a breast due to mastectomy, as well as providing cosmetic enhancement for women with small breasts. 
Testicular implants have also been made for men to replace tissue loss due to removal of a testicle.
In recent years, implants have been increasingly used to improve areas of our bodies purely for cosmetic purposes. 
Some men (particularly bodybuilders) choose to have silicone pectoral implants placed behind the muscles in their chest wall to bulk out their chest and give it more shape.
In the U.S. according to statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) in 2018 there were 26,774 buttock augmentation procedures (note: this combines figures for both implants and fat transfer) carried out.  This is an increase of 15.8% compared to 2017 figures and moves it from the 15th most popular surgical procedure in 2014 to the 12th in 2018.
There are no similar detailed statistics available for the United Kingdom as yet, but this type of cosmetic surgery is becoming increasingly popular in this country too.

<img style="margin: 5px; float: right;" width="150" height="113" alt="silicone calf implant" src="https://www.consultingroom.com/uploads/Image_Directory/Treatment_FAQs/TDeuromedcalfimplant010503.jpg" border="0" />
Calf implant 
(Image courtesy of Euromedical Systems Ltd).
Other parts of the body that are being improved in this way include calf, biceps and buttock implants. These implants are nearly always made using silicone as the implant material, but such operations are quite rare at present. 
For the purposes of giving you an idea of what happens during a body implant operation, we have focussed on a chest or pectoral procedure. 
If you are considering this form of procedure, the following information will give you a basic understanding about what's involved. It can't answer all your questions, since a lot depends on the individual patient and the surgeon. 
  
Please ask a surgeon about anything you don't understand.

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