Women who get fake breast implants b4 birth of their children risk their children having 5x susceptibility 2allergies,immunodeficiencies. Fake breasts only allow4 maximum 10% milk to get through milk ducts,FORMULA IS NOT the same; there r vital hormones,enzymes in breastmilk that protect children into adulthood. From Department of Health and Human Services,US

Priya, nyc, usa

I do not agree with Terrils, California. Who said that women are having the operation to make men look at them? I am due to hav the surgery and I can promise you now that I could not care less what other people think, I am doing it soley for myself. Its disappointing that you make that presumption.

Gabrielle, Northwich,

I don't have a problem with people having plastic surgery if it makes them happy and assuming that they grasp the risks and the fact that with implants they are committing themselves to a lifetime of retreads.

However, I do question what sort of a doctor would be willing to perform breast augmentation on a girl who has not stopped growing. It is very common for young women to have very small breasts until their early 20s. Sending girls away until they are 20 is not enough. In my view no doctor should be allowed to perform this procedure on anyone under the age of 25.

Laura, London,

It's heartbreaking that women still correlate their own worth as human beings to how many men are ogling them. Have they no other valuable attributes than their breasts - like brains, talent, kindness, courage? Why does our culture still teach that a woman's only value is in her sexual appeal to men?

Terrils, California, USA

the problem is that by the age of 16 you can offer consent to a medical procedure. the problem is not so much the doctors, but the fact that at 16, in the eyes of the law, they are adults.

tim, london,

Ugh. This makes me sick - when will people stop judging everything by the yardstick of a media-produced 'dream' figure and lifestyle? How many of these people can say they are happier now? And what sort of parents allow teenaged girls to undergo dangerous surgical procedures?

Natasha, Kent, UK

Yuck. How that doctor feels comfortable accepting a consultants' salary while working on the side doing 'cosmetic' mutilations on young women because they have a whim to look 'better' in a bikini is beyond me. Men of his ilk are a stain on the profession.

Adam Neilson, Birmingham,

why can't people be happy with what God blessed them with?? if they're not disfigured in some way from birth( which at times these changes are for the better..health wise ..thats ok ) or from accidents thats understandable..but to do this coz you want Bigger this & that.....its wrong

amerswildcat, london, usa

So, Garth, you experienced first hand the fake plasticity of the wealthy in America. I hope that the rest of the world sees the disaster America is becoming and heed the lessons.

Derek, Denver, CO

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Work on your intellect, communication skills, wit, sparkling conversation, sense of humour…

Andrew Milner, Karuizawa, Japan

i wonder if anyone has done any research into the cost of back pain treatment for girls who have these things put in so young...?
Anyway its shameful that young people can be so impressinable thinking that 2 bags of saline solution strapped to their chest will somehow make them happier.

patrick, the Hague, netherlands

I remember a visit to a supremely affluent suburb of Orlando, Florida, some years ago, and my amazement at seeing several young teenage girls wandering around the shopping center ostentatiously flaunting and projecting breasts that,
in size, would more normally belong on the chests of thirty year old women!

I wonderd if there was something in the water.....?

Understanding dawned... with amazement.. when we drove along an avenue on which there were
dozens of signs promoting the services of various plastic surgeons for "feminine enhancements"....
"Get the figure that YOU deserve...that YOU were born to have...NOW!!"

I could not understand why parents would spend thousands of dollars to have fifteen and sixteen year old girls surgically inflated? ? ? NUTS!!

I wondered how the young teenaged boys in Orlando handled..er, regarded!.. such overt displays of manufactured mammary magnificence!

Let us pray that British teenagers will keep things in their natural proportions!

Garth Rex, Glendale Heights, USA