She got the message and began 20 weeks of silicone injections that gradually increased her bustline to 44 inches.

Dr. Sherman says he sees two or three patients a year who have been disfigured by silicone injections.

A21 A Manhattan doctor stopped using silicone injections.

According to the publicity men at Playtex she did it without the aid of pumping iron or silicone injections.

She told me she had had silicone injections in her face," says Elaine.

Patent Pending silicone injection improves aim stability and keeps your tank in the sweet spot.

The practice became well known over the years because of the celebrities who came to Dr. Orentreich for silicone injections.

Dr. Sherman advocates banning liquid silicone injections.

In a telephone interview today, Dr. Orentreich said he had been doing silicone injections for years and believed they were not illegal.

Lumps and Ulcers Plastic surgeons acting independently began using liquid silicone injections in the late 1940's.

The F.D.A. concluded that "silicone injections could not be recommended unreservedly."

Each patient had silicone injections in one nasolabial fold and collagen injections in the other.

On Sunday, The New York Times reported details of the investigation in an article about the potential hazards of silicone injection.

I look 10 years younger," Ms. Louis said earlier this month when she returned to Dr. Narins's office for silicone injections in her cheeks.

"I underwent hypnosis," she writes, "had cell implants, diacutaneous fibrolysis, silicone injections, my nose bobbed and my eyelids lifted."

Lindsay Taylor, a country-western singer in Toronto, said she has a line of bumps from silicone injections that look "like tiny rice grains" running along her forehead.

A central figure in the history of silicone injections has been Dr. Orentreich, who had far more patients than any other doctor in the experiments, among them numerous celebrities.

Mrs. Brown endorses cosmetic surgery as a confidence builder and acknowledges having had a face lift, eye lift, nose job and silicone injections in her face.

In 1964 Doda made international news, first by dancing topless at the city's Condor Club, then by enhancing her bust from size 34 to 44 through silicone injections.

Among the seemingly ever-inventive procedures are eyebrow lifts, nose jobs, eyelid tucks, breast implants, tummy tucks, liposuction and controversial and troubling silicone injections.

In June, Dr. David A. Kessler, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, warned doctors that silicone injections were illegal and must stop.

UNBELIEVABLY, HE says, the doctor who first injected her proposed additional silicone injections as a remedy.