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Why Are Plastic Surgeon Using Breast Implants As "Single Patient Use", When They Are Labeled "Single Use" in a Revision?

asked 7 months ago by islandcheif in NY
Latest answer by Steven Wallach, MD
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Tags: reuse

Single patient use devices A medical device that is intended for single-patient use means that the device may be used for more than one episode of use on one patient only. Single use devices A single use device (SUD) is a medical device that is intended to be used on an individual patient during a single procedure and then discarded. Medical devices that are for single use must be clearly labeled with the words “do not reuse”.Terms for “do not reuse” are “single use” or “use only once”.

1 answer to Why Are Plastic Surgeon Using Breast Implants As "Single Patient Use", When They Are Labeled "Single Use" in a Revision?

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Breast implants

I am not exactly sure of your question. Breast implants are only used in one single patient at any one time. For instance, I can not take out implants from one patient and put the same ones in a nother patient.
Steven Wallach, MD

Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

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