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Breform Breast Lift - the Internal Bra - South Africa, ZA

I too am sorry to hear about what you have gone through, especially the poor treatment by this "healthcare provider." I personally would like to see what this surgeon wrote you to justify this unacceptable outcome. Also, it is absurd that he wanted you to wait four years for this to resolve - then at the four-year point the problem would dissapear like magic I suppose? He needs to refund your fee so that you can get this fixed by another surgeon. His financial loss will be far greater by losing out on new patients who will be scared off by the photos of your results.

Rosiclere, The reason the Community Manager stated in response to my review that the photos are very "telling" is that the photos pretty much tell the whole story. Looking at these photos, would you want Breform implanted in your breasts? Of course not, so that is very helpful to the potential patient reader. A regular mastopexy would not leave the tissue fused to mesh causing this type of deformed breast shape. That means that the Breform mesh product caused this defect. Breform product = defective. The surgeon gave no explanation of the poor outcome. Although he is "very experienced" with Breform, that level of experience is relative since very few Breform uplift procedures have been performed. It doesn't appear to have caught on. Also, how exactly would fitting the wrong size mesh explain hard fibroitic areas of tissue or tissue fused to the breast? That doesn't make any sense. So you think that the relevant authorities intervene right away when there is a defective product on the market? Try Googling "mesh" and "implant" and "lawsuit" and read about the people who had mesh hernia implants placed for years and years... and only now the horrible problems are in the spotlight. Patients posting problems with a product, just as I have, are exactly how word about a defective product starts to get out. Rosiclere, you have a quite curious interest in defending a mesh product. That's quite an odd response to a patient that is telling their story of being harmed by a product. Most regular women would express sympathy, or be grateful to someone sharing this information so they could avoid similar deformity. Hmm, I wonder what your motivation and role might be? You mentioned that my review raised questions. Please ask me about my experience. I would welcome the opportunity to answer more questions Rosiclere. It is so important to help other women make an informed decision. Don't you agree?

I would give every cent I have left, give up my job, start over with nothing... If I could only go back to the minute before I went under for FL surgery. Are you going to one of the top FL surgeons in the world? The top don't necessarily cost more and, if so, barring a few celebrity surgeons, are only nominally more expensive. Even with the very best this is a high risk procedure in terms of what you can lose. You can cover your body, but you must use your face to interface with everything in our social environment. Only when this is severely damaged do you understand the cost. You could get lucky and be fine at a demanding job in 5 weeks, or you could feel ill and ashamed of your appearance for months. If you have any concerns err on caution. This cannot be un-done. If you proceed, do so only after having done more research and preparation than you have ever done for anything in your entire life - degrees, work, parenting, buying homes, starting businesses, choosing life partners... Because everything can be lost with a mis-step here, don't short-cut. Research the procedure and the phsycian as if you were some sort of paranoid manic. If you have questions within, go see a therapist and discuss what you are trying to accomplish, what risks you are willing to take. I hope you never have to know what some of us have found out the hard way. Here is just one tiny example: Google facelift and the word scars = on the surface all you will hear is, 'area highly vascularized, scars not an issue, incisions placed in inconspicuous areas...' Only AFTER you are one of the many many many patients with FL scarring will you realise that it was a HUGE obvious risk. You'll dig a bit deeper than the surface level in your rsearch and find that so many FL patients are living with these horrible scars. I would LOVE a saggy wrinkled jowled natural unscarred face! In fact I wake up dreaming of this and then the reality hits me.