Media - ImplantInfo by Nicole in the News

About ImplantInfo.com

Nicole founded ImplantInfo.com in 1998 after having her own breast augmentation surgery. ImplantInfo.com is now the most popular and widely visited website on the internet for patients researching breast implant surgery, hosting over 17,000 visitors each day.

As a breast implant patient since 1998, Nicole has been frequently featured in the media and has testified before the FDA scientific panel regarding saline and silicone breast implants on 3 separate occasions. She is available for interviews or to assist the media as indicated at right. Nicole recently exchanged her saline implants for silicone gel breast implants as part of the FDA's adjunct study.

ImplantInfo has been fortunate enough to work with some of the best plastic surgeons in the world as well as the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in compiling patient satisfaction and other breast implant data.

Suggestions for the Media

Numerous stories have been carried over the past decade pitting women against each other. "Shallow implant patient versus regretful silicone implant survivor" stories have been rampant and the story is stale. Here are some ideas for stories about what's really happening out there:

Why do women want to have implants so badly?

Women overwhelmingly are researching breast implants very thoroughly, know the risks and continue to choose breast implants, recommend the surgery and express satisfaction rates above 90%.

--Nearly 70% of breast augmentation patients considered the procedure for a year or more before surgery and more than half (54%) for over 3 years. Click here to view the slide.

--82% of women had more self-confidence after breast augmentation. Click here to view the slide.

--93 % of women would recommend breast augmentation to a friend or to a family member. Click here to view the slide.

Is Bigger Better?

Our visitors have been answering "yes" to that question in many ways for years. In a recent poll, nearly 40 % of women wish, after surgery, that they had gotten bigger implants. In a comparison of two separate polls asking about what size implants women chose, implant sizes have increased since 2001, with more women requesting implants over 400 cc (enough volume to make most women a D cup or more). See more poll results in our pollcenter.

Who is getting breast implants? The changing perception of breast augmentation.

Media has covered the celebs and the strippers but did you know that over half of breast augmentation patients we polled are over 30 and that over 60 % are married? According to the largest survey of patients ever conducted (over 4,000 women surveyed by ImplantInfo.com and published by the ASPS in 2004), augmentation patients are thirty somethings, mothers, well-educated and well-heeled.

MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACT
Nicole Cummings
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Who is the breast implant patient?*

Married	64%
Attended College	66%
Has children	64%
Happy w/implants	88%
Would recommend it to friend/family	93%
Percentage of reoperations done just to "go bigger"	34%

Number of visitors to ImplantInfo daily:

Over 17,000

Percentage of ImplantInfo visitors who think silicone should be available to ALL women:

62 %

Length of time women considered breast augmentation before having surgery:*

5 years or more	42%
3 - 4 years	12%
1 - 2 years	14%
Less than a year	32%

*results compiled in 2004 in a 177-question survey of 4011 women posted on ImplantInfo.com for 6 months and analyzed by the ASPS and Data Harbor of Chicago, Illinois. For more information about this survey, other poll results and to discuss this information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACT
nicole@implantinfo.com
800-260-9497 (voice)
888-899-3114 (fax)
(email is quickest!)

Media Coverage of Nicole and ImplantInfo

Nicole is a regular guest on the "All About You Show," a radio show in St. Louis, Missouri that airs every Sunday at 11:00am. Nicole joins hosts and board certified plastic surgeons Bruce I. White, William H. Huffaker and Herluf Lund, along with co-host on-air personality Kristi Carson to discuss issues in cosmetic surgery.

ImplantInfo.com and its discussion board were one primary focus of USA Today's article about silicone approval on November 20, 2006. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-11-18-breast-implants_x.htm

Nicole was interviewed at length as an informational source for Sex, Lies and Cosmetic Surgery and quoted in five of its chapters. This book is winning early accolades for its honest and insightful investigation into the correlation between sex and cosmetic surgery. Click here to read more about this book and learn what others are saying.

http://www.sexliesandcosmeticsurgery.com

Nicole and ImplantInfo have also been featured, quoted or used as an informational source in the following magazines and newspapers:

First, for Women, magazine
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The Star Telegram
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Newsweek Magazine

Oxygen Magazine - Click to read

"Cosmetic Breast Enlargements Are Making a Comeback "

By Denise Grady

Cosmetic surgery to enlarge the breasts (which does not include reconstruction after mastectomy) is regaining popularity after falling out of favor in 1992.

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Why the resurgence? Plastic surgeons say the interest never died. There have always been women who wanted bigger breasts, but many were scared away by reports that silicone might be unsafe.

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Many women want implants because their breasts shrank and sagged after childbirth.

One, a 31-year-old mother of two young children from Wayne, N.J., who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said she had always been "small-chested," but developed "big, beautiful breasts" during pregnancy and nursing. Once she stopped breastfeeding, though, they became smaller than ever. She wanted the big ones back.

"I felt really depressed," she said. "I felt inadequate when I was intimate with my husband. It was nothing he did. I just didn't feel feminine."

Trying on clothes, especially bathing suits, she thought she looked downright masculine. Once, hoping to look good in a strapless gown, she resorted to using masking tape to try to create cleavage.

Implants took her from an A cup to a C. The operation was more painful than she had expected, and recovery took longer, but she thinks it was worth it. "Our sex life is so much better because I feel so much better about myself," she said. "I feel sexy and I guess my husband picks up on that. I buy sexy lingerie all the time where before I never did." She has even created a Web site (www.implantinfo.com) to help other women get information about implants.