Our Personal Data Processing Policy has changed.Get to know her by clicking here.We have changed our Privacy Policy and Browsing Data Policy.By 'Accept' we consider that you approve the changes.Here you will find your newsCheck your inbox and if not, in your spam folder.We want you to find the news that interests you the mostFollow your favorite topics in a place exclusive to you.Remember that to see your songs on all your devices, you must update the El Tiempo App.We couldn't load your newsTry again later.An exclusive place, where you can follow your favorite topics.choose them!Here you can also find "My News" and follow the topics you chose in the APP.The fastest way to get up to date.An exclusive section where you can follow your songs.Whenever you want, change the themes you chose.I will do it laterYour favorite themes have been saved!The fastest way to get up to date.An exclusive section where you can follow your songs.Whenever you want, change the themes you chose.Register or log in to follow your favorite topics.The most recent figures clearly show the trend: in 2019, 6,336 women in Colombia decided to go to the operating room to have their breast implants removed.17.58% more than in the previous year.In the same period, the increase in surgeries to get breast implants was 15.7%, equivalent to 32,724 cases.Judging by these data and with the caveat that they only include the universe of surgeries performed by plastic surgeons who voluntarily report their procedures to the International Society of Plastic Surgery, ISAPS, although the number of women who decide to increase the size of her bust quintuples the number of women who decide to reduce it, percentage-wise the group of those who want to take them off grows more than that of those who want to put them on... to put it in a colloquial way.(You may also be interested in: Thanks, Greeicy)How to interpret these data?The president of the Colombian Society of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, María Isabel Cadena, explains to me that there have been 3 waves of breast explantations.The first in the 1990s, when the alert was given in the US for possible health effects derived from silicone implants.She explains that in this wave, women tended to change those implants for saline ones.The second wave was about 10 years ago when the defect of PIP prostheses became known, which led many women to decide to have their implants removed, even without asking for replacement by others.And the third wave is now being seen, associated with the so-called Asia Syndrome which, although it is not proven to be a consequence of the implants, it is believed that these may be one of the triggers when patients have a genetic predisposition.Although the number of women who decide to increase the size of their bust is five times the number of women who decide to reduce it, percentage-wise the group of those who want to remove it grows more.However, specialists report that in a percentage of patients the symptoms of the syndrome reappear about 6 months after removing the breast implants and in 20% they never disappear.In this wave, the number of women who are making the decision not to ask for new implants is also notable, because either they want to feel natural, or maturity led them to realize that their femininity and their power do not lie in having a voluptuous body, or do not want to expose themselves to subsequent health risks.Some of these arguments have been put forward by publicly recognized women who decided to explant themselves: The model Lina Tejeiro, the presenter Claudia Bahamón, the influencer Mónica Fonseca, the actress Xilena Aycardi, the actress Angelly Moncayo, who also shared a shocking reflection that I recommend when she did so. Read on your social networks.Words more words less: society, here I give you back what I put into my body, and how expensive it has been, because you made me believe that this was the added value I needed to achieve my dreams.It seems significant to me that this phenomenon occurs at the same time that the importance of female empowerment is highlighted.It is worth noting that if the decision is completely free, the woman who decides to increase her bust is as empowered as the one who decides to decrease it and even remain completely flat and with scars.That is why the key point is to ask yourself the questions to determine how autonomous is the decision to go to the operating room in either of the two cases;as well as assuming the consequences fully knowing the risks that all surgery and all implants entail.I also see it as another manifestation, one of the bravest by the way, in which women free ourselves from the pressure of narrow beauty parameters, with which we were taught that we should look in a way that would please others, even at the expense of of our comfort, self-esteem and safety.So… world, dear world, do you understand?Listen well, without boobs there can also be paradise.(Read all the columns of Claudia Isabel Palacios Giraldo in EL TIEMPO, here)Register or log in to follow your favorite topics.For putting your face and charisma on a topic that many women want to shout about, but can't.You distract yourself with these and other aspects of form, the important substance of your messages.Is it fair that women have to contribute the same weeks as men and 5 years less?Colombia still cannot afford to bury its most accurate engine of development.The next government will surely straighten the course in this matter.You reached the content limit for the monthEnjoy unlimited content from EL TIEMPO DIGITAL.Sign up now!If you are already a subscriber to the newsletter* COP $900 / month for the first two monthsWe know that you like to always be informed.Create an account and you can enjoy:Create an account and you can enjoy our content from any device.COPYRIGHT © 2022 EL TIEMPO Publishing House NIT.860.001.022-7.Its total or partial reproduction is prohibited, as well as its translation into any language without the written authorization of its owner.ELTIEMPO.com all the main news from Colombia and the World