How Common is it For People to Get Their Breasts Removed For Toxicity in Silicone?

People are going in to have implants removed due to toxicity. How common is this? Thanks.

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Are Silicone Implants Toxic?

I think you have to answer this question in two ways -First, to address the perceived silicone toxicity by the public/patients which has not been substantiated by scientific studies and would be rare if any at all. Secondly you have to address if they have ever been proven to be toxic. The first question is most easy to answer. There is no know toxicity from silicone gel breast implants, it has been studied by the FDA for more than 3 decades to establish its safety. Silicone... more

US Breast Implants Do Not Have Toxicity Risks

The simple answer is none. There is no medical evidence that the silicone gel used in breast implants that are currently approved by the U.S. FDA have any associated 'toxicities' or pose any medical harm to the implanted patient. You may be referring to the PIP breast implants from a French manufacturer that are used in other parts of the world. There were some manufacturing issues which has led to a rush to have those type of breast implants removed, although whether any such... more

Silicone implants and toxicity

The silicone implants were removed from the market for about 15 years because of fears without scientific evidence. After extensive research the fears were not supported by the research and the FDA placed the implants back on the market.

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Toxicity from silicone gel breast implants

Actually there is no know toxicity from silicone gel breast implants, and the implants have been studied over decades to establish the safely and effectiveness for the product. It is very uncommon, and indeed unnecessary to have implants removed for "toxicity". Implants distributed by PIP is a different situation as they were not a 'medical' grade product.

Breast implants and silicone toxicity

Silicone is one of the most common substances used in medical devices such as syringes, IV's catheters and so on for coating and other purposes. I have not heared of anyone having toxicity from silicone. Breast implants are removed for reasons such as capsular contracture, rupture, deflation, infection, increase or decrease in breast size, pain and so on. Some women had them removed due to concerns about possibility of connective tissue dz.(although extensive studies by the implant companies... more

Implant removal for silicone toxicity

I have never removed a silicone implant for toxicity in over 20 years in practice. I have removed them for capsular contraction, for rupture, to change size or to switch to saline. I have had patients who wanted them removed for a variety of reasons including fear from what they heard on the media but I have never seen any toxicity that I was aware of. Hope this helps.