What Causes the Mold Found in Saline Implants?

I have heard several ladies say that they had been sick due to the mold exposure found on, or in the saline implants. Is this due to the ps not using sterile water? What causes this, and how can I prevent this?

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Mold and implants

I have never seen mold in any implant removal that I have performed or any infection that I have treated. But it has been reported.

Steven Wallach, MD

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Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

What Causes the Mold Found in Saline Implants?

No one knows for sure but the hypothesis is that it comes from the air when implants are placed or filled and therefore closed systems are recommended to decrease this potential source

Otto Joseph Placik, MD

32 reviews

Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Cases of Mold found in Breast Implants

Regarding :''I have heard several ladies say that they had been sick due to the mold exposure found on, or in the saline implants. Is this due to the ps not using sterile water? What causes this, and how can I prevent this?" Your question refers to press blitz from a few years ago. Never since repeated. There has been a surgeon in the Atlanta area who made it a cause celebre but whose experienced has NOT been matched by any other Plastic surgeon I know. In all... more

Mold in Saline Implants?

To be honest, I have never encountered mold on or in an implant that has been removed from a patient, even ones that have been inside for over 20 years. I am not sure how this would even happen, and I doubt the claims of women who say that they were made sick from such a thing. This would imply that somehow they got mold into their system, or it was put into the implant itself. Everyone uses sterile saline in the implants ( or should be), so it should not be able to... more