Originally Posted by I'd Rather Walk

"Sandra Fish, a correspondent with Politics Daily who's also had a mastectomy and had a similar TSA experience at Denver International Airport, offers insight as to why the scanner may have alerted to Cissna's mastectomy. She notes that her mastectomy and reconstruction is a composition of part of her lat dorsi (mid-back muscle) and a skin graft from her back, supplemented by a sac of silicone. In response to Fish's experience in Denver, Carrie Harmon, a TSA spokeswoman, explained that the so-called "Millimeter Wave" isn't intended to detect "fake breasts". She explained that the scanner looks for metallic and non-metallic items under clothing, and suggested it could have been something else inside Fish's body.

Thus it appears that the scanner is alerting to the silicone gel, and a plastic surgeon, Dr. Winfield Hartley, opines that this will continue until the image readers and the screeners get used to seeing implant imagery."

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