If you haven’t heard about Allergan before, you will if you stick around here or any other cosmetic surgery blog long enough. The California based company is huge, providing many of the most well known products in the cosmetic surgical industry such as Botox, Juvederm and Latisse (the incredible eyelash growth product that many are anxiously awaiting for in Canada). The company’s sales for the quarter ending in December 2009 topped $1,206.5 million, a substantial increase of figures reported at the same time in the previous year. It looks like they haven’t been affected much by the current economic climate.
Allergan manufacturers Natrelle™ breast implants, a silicone cohesive gel filled implant that was approved by Health Canada in 2006. The company predicts that sales of their implant, along with other breast aesthetics products, will total $290 million to $300 million in 2010. Wow. We wonder what the rival breast implant manufacturer, Mentor, predicts their sales will be this year. Such numbers can only mean one thing: more women are getting silicone implants!
Silicone implants tend to be the preferred breast implant of surgeons and patients since they usually feel and look more natural than saline filled. However, both are available so it’s really up to the patient and what their hopes and expectations.