Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the pro's and con's of breast implants.
            
5 million American women currently have breast implants.  The choice to have breast implants needs to be well thought out and researched as there are many pros and cons.
            
Main Points: Pros and cons of breast implants.
            
	Pros: .
            
1.	Can improve a women's self-esteem who, for personal reasons, believes her breast size is unsatisfactory.
            
2.	Can correct a decrease in breast volume after a women has been pregnant, breastfeeding, or lost a significant amount of weight.
            
3.	Can help balance a difference in breast size.
            
4.	Can be used as a reconstructive technique following mastectomy.
            
	Cons:.
            
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1.	Capsular Contracture.
            
2.	Deflation, rupture, or leakage.
            
3.	Varying amounts of pain.
            
4.	Infection.
            
5.	Inability to breastfeed.
            
Conclusion: Breast implants have both positive and negative results.
            
Breast Implants.
            
	Did you know that 34% of American women were dissatisfied with their breasts?  What can I say, I"m one of them.  What about you?  How many of you have thought about getting breast implants?  I have.  What about you men?  How many of you have ever fantasized about your girlfriend having bigger breasts?  Today, nearly 1.5 million American women have breast implants.  More than three-fourths of the women who had breast implants did it because they were unhappy with their figure.  The remaining reasons were due mostly in part to medical surgeries, such as a mastectomy.  Today I would like to inform you of the pros and cons of breast implants.
            
	There are many pros to breast implants, besides just the obvious ones.  Breast implants can do for a woman what nature could not.  Breast implants can also raise a woman's self-esteem and give her more confidence in her body.  Breast implants can also be used to increase the volume of a woman's breast after pregnancy or breastfeeding.  If one breast happens to be a different size than the other breast, then breast implants can fix the problem.