In summary it would be fair to accept that some women who have had Breast Augmentation surgery, may have subsequently developed at some point in their lives a connective tissue or autoimmune disorder. However as these disorders arise fairly commonly in individuals in the general population anyway, regardless of whether they have had breast implant surgery or not, it is very likely therefore that they would have have become ill anyway. Of course careful statistical analysis will be able to easily determine whether their illness was chance or related to silicone implants. At the moment however, after examination of all the relevant data, it seems safe to say that there is no conclusive scientific evidence that silicone materials in breast implants increases the risk of connective tissue diseases or for that matter breast cancer. More reassuringly, recently On Nov. 17th 2006 the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a press release that concluded that “it has reviewed an extensive amount of data from clinical trials of women studied for up to four years, as well as a wealth of other information to determine the benefits and risks of these products.” It suggests that “The extensive body of scientific evidence provides reasonable assurance of the benefits and risks of these devices and that in the past decade, a number of independent studies have examined whether silicone gel-filled breast implants are associated with connective tissue disease or cancer. The studies, including a report by the Institute of Medicine, have concluded there is no convincing evidence that breast implants are associated with either of these diseases.” As a result it gave type approval for use of silicone gel implants.