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Breast Implants and Mammograms - Some Helpful Tips

It is a well known fact that breast implants (both saline and silicone) can in fact interfere with breast cancer screening by mammograms.

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What is capsular contracture?

Sometimes, no matter how skilled a patient's plastic surgeon is, complications arise during or after surgery. This is the case because ...

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What are PIP implants?

PIP breast implants were withdrawn from the UK in 2010 after it was found they had been fraudulently manufactured with unapproved silicone

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Who is (was) PIP?

Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) was a French company founded in 1991 that produced silicone gel breast implants.