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Congenital and developmental anomalies of the female breast (amastia, asymmetry, hypomastia, hypertrophy, and polymastia) and the available corrective surgical procedures are described. Because of its importance to augmentation mammaplasty, some of the fabrication of organosilicon polymers is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A frequent compaint among women is the failure of the breasts to develop to a fashionably desirable size. An experiment was designed to determine whether hypnotic suggestion could influence the physiological mechanisms associated with breast growth. The first phase compared hypnosis with and without suggestions for breast growth in six subjects. The second phase examined the effectiveness of hypnotic suggestions of breast growth in thirteen subjects acting as their own controls. Analysis of the data indicated that hypnosis per se had no direct effect on breast growth, but that hypnosis with suggestions for breast growth was effective in stimulating breast growth. Further investigation may show this to be a satisfactory alternate method to surgical breast augmentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]