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Old 11-15-2007, 01:07 PM
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There is an entire history of the development of implants and their complications, as well as the litigation which followed. Baylor was a big center because it was their plastic surgeons who first contracted to find a biological use for silicone, and began putting them in implants. The first women they implanted, I understand, were from the medical community. In the end, they saw a huge number of cases of complications.

The most important thing to know is that silicone stimulates an immune response in lymph nodes, and migrates from the breast along the same routes as a breast cancer.

A good source of information: http://commandtrust.com/resources.html

I highly recommend Dr Feng for explant, as you already know. I don't know much about nose implants, except that the medicare studies I cited earlier on this thread found a correlation between ALL silicone implants and neuropathy.
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