Unscrupulous doctors used an illegal substance called “Amazingel” as an implant on the breast of a Chinese woman named Wang. A decade after the procedure was done, the woman went to a hospital for a check-up with a bloated stomach.
However, her breasts – which were injected with the banned substance – had shrunk. Now middle-aged, Wang discovered, after doctors examined her that the “Amazingel” dropped to her stomach. Surgeons removed the illegal substance by surgery, Shanghaiist reported.
The reason Amazingel is banned is because the substance causes cancer. And because it is not compatible when implanted in human body, it travels throughout the human body by migrating to the stomach and underarms when injected in the breasts.
According to Healthfrom, a medical website, Amazingel is polyacrylamide hydrogel. It is commonly known as artificial fats made up of colorless, transparent liquid like a jelly, polymerized from acrylamide monomer.
After injecting Amazingel, it cause inflammation, infection, induration, lump, deformation, displacement and other complications. In April 2006, state Food and Drug Administration ordered the stop of its production and use.
According to Researchgate, Amazingel is widely used in China for mammoplasty because the procedure is easy to perform and non-invasive. Similar to the middle-aged woman who wondered where her implant went while wondering why her stomach is bloated, there have been numerous similar cases in China in which patients complained of deformity and breast discomfort.
In some cases, such as that of a 37-year-old Chinese woman studied in the Researchgate report, doctors successfully removed the Amazingel and reconstructed her breasts with the use of silicone implants that resulted in aesthetically tolerable results.