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Gerard Lambe, a consultant plastic surgeon at the Reflect Clinic in Manchester and a spokesman for British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, is one of those surgeons offering the service.
They can be used to show what a woman's breast would look like if they were made bigger or smaller.
Gerard, who has been using the technology for a year, told The Sun Online: "They have been a huge advance, in my eyes.
"I have been doing plastic surgery for a long time and augmentation [making them bigger] was a bit in the stone age.
"You would have three or four sizes (of implants) that would just get stuffed in a bra and the woman would say it looks OK or it doesn't.
"This software allows you to show what a round implant would look like as opposed to a tear drop one, it allows you to simulate what it would look like under the muscle and over the muscle.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by damnbunni on Friday October 20 2017, @10:42AM (9 children)
One of the most common regrets of women who do get breast augmentation surgery is that they didn't go big enough. A second surgery to install a larger set of implants is actually quite common.
If this can give a patient a better idea of what a given size will look like, it could reduce (so to speak) those extra operations quite a bit.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 20 2017, @04:25PM (8 children)
It seems to me that if you were gonna go in for body modification/augmentation, why not really augment yourself? Why stop with making your breasts larger? Why not install actuators you can use to make them bounce up and down? Install a magnet that vibrates when pointing north, so you never get lost. Install a flash drive and microphone so you can be a kickass infiltrator. You know? Something that gives you a real edge beyond further capturing male gazes that will be directed there anyway. Go full on Ghost In The Shell/Aeon Flux. That would be badass. If I was a geek girl with the ability to afford elective surgery like that, it's what I would do.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Grishnakh on Friday October 20 2017, @06:31PM (6 children)
Why not just have your hands replaced by lobster claws, and have antlers added too?
http://dilbert.com/strip/2004-04-18 [dilbert.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @06:58PM
Or a Cylon eye? https://theinfosphere.org/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Mon [theinfosphere.org]
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 20 2017, @07:50PM (4 children)
You're comparing self-bouncing boobs to lobster claws and antlers?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday October 20 2017, @08:38PM (3 children)
Well, you did say, "It seems to me that if you were gonna go in for body modification/augmentation, why not really augment yourself? Why stop with making your breasts larger?" so I just went a little farther with the extreme augmentation.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday October 20 2017, @09:26PM (2 children)
I love what my daughter Ivanka got done. She’s now got the big phony tits and got her nose tweaked, they call it rhinoplasty. Nothing major but it’s totally changed her look.
(Score: 2) by rylyeh on Friday October 20 2017, @11:21PM (1 child)
Is that 'love' or 'luuuuuv!!!' ? ;)
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday October 21 2017, @12:52AM
Nothing like that. She's just a lot easier to look at since she got the work done. She looks AMAZING now! As I'm sure you know. As you must have seen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @12:03AM
> If I was a geek girl with the ability to afford elective surgery like that
If you're geeky enough to imagine it, you're geeky enough to do it. You don't need to be female. So the only obstacle, in my opinion, is the cost.