PIP Implants Unsafe

[Monster]

It's been discovered that low-quality breast implants sold by French company "PIP" have been unsafe: Implants can tear and silicone can seep into the body. Now it has been discovered that silicon can seep out even without tearing. Germany, Chechnya and France have already recommended patients to have their implants tested and/or removed. PIP implants have been sold worldwide.

ARD article (Google-translated from German)

The Institute made the decision apparently due to incoming messages from doctors, medical societies and hospitals. At the 23rd December of last year had recommended the BfArM affected patients to be tested. In these studies has now clearly established that the cushions do not have to be torn down to make silicone leak.

 

[Monster]

BBC article :

Private clinics have a "moral duty" to remove banned PIP breast implants from women they operated on, the government says.

The NHS will cover the costs for women who had the implants fitted by the health service and who are anxious to have them removed, it added.

The NHS will also remove the implants if the private clinic no longer exists or refuses the patient.

Around 40,000 women in the UK have been fitted with them.

 

[Monster]

CNN article :

(CNN) -- German medical groups joined the French health ministry Friday in recommending that women seek removal of breast implants made by a French company, saying they need not hurry but the devices could pose eventual health problems.

England's National Health Service also weighed in Friday, stopping short of recommending routine removal of implants made by Poly Implant Prostheses, or PIP, but agreeing to pay to have them taken out in some cases.

 

[Monster]

The founder of PIP has been deceiving TÜV (Technical Inspection Association) Rhineland for years.

ARD article (Google-translated from German)

The founder of the controversial breast implant company Poly Implant Prostheses (PIP), Jean-Claude Mas, has admitted to having misled the TÜV Rheinland in controlling his dentures prosthetics for many years. The news agency AFP reported, citing a report of his police interrogation in October.

 

[Panache]

That is odd that the silicone can still seep out without the implant tearing! I wonder how that can even happen? I thought breast implants were made of saline these days anyhow, and that they did away with silicone. But it does say that they were of low quality, so I guess they just fill them up with whatever is cheapest.
That is really bad what is happening with them... they should just replace the implants free of charge for the women who used the PIP brand ones (I know that surgeons need to make their money, but this particular circumstance wasn't the womens' fault, it was the fault of the company- if the woman already has silicone in her body, they should be immediately replaced for free in that case)