Jan 12
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More on the Toxic Implant Scandal
Remember that scandal that broke where thousands of woman potentially have a toxic time bomb in their bodies thanks to a French breast implant company that put industrial (not medical) grade silicone in their breast implants to save money?
Well, there’s apparently more to the story as we’re now finding out, and it appears the faulty implants have been on the market quite a long time which is surprising considering these are devices that go into people’s bodies.
The company, which goes by the acronym PIP (Poly Implants Prostheses) had apparently received numerous complaints from regulators and concerned surgeons and clinics years before this recent story broke into the mainstream.
The implants apparently not only contained the wrong grade of silicone, which has its own problems in and of itself, but they also were more likely to break in the body, which is a concern that went unheeded after reported.
This does not look good for the French company. It’s one thing when a company did not know its products could cause harm to people, but when a company knows there is a higher likelihood of harm and simply asks that it be concealed, that puts them into a whole new light in the public, as well as legal eye.
It appears the company was deceiving several entities, including its own insurance company. While this seems shocking, it’s also alarming to know how long this went on and that it is all just now coming into the public’s awareness.
If you think about this one incident, and how many more incidents with breast implants there may be that we don’t know about, it makes you consider breast implant alternatives as an option if you were thinking about doing it, that’s for sure.
Going under the knife is a big enough deal without throwing in the potential to have a toxic product being implanted into your body, or the complications that could results in thousands more dollars being spent to correct or rectify.
And we don’t even know the long term effects or dangers yet of the commercial grade silicone used in these implants.
