If the rupture rate with PIP implants is “unacceptably high” they should all be removed, said Tim Goodacre, a surgeon. But who will fund the cost?
By Stephen Adams
Tim Goodacre, one of the members of the government-commissioned panel investigating the scandal, said that rupture rates found by the country’s biggest cosmetic surgery company were ‘unacceptable’.
Mr Goodacre, president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and an Oxford University lecturer, said that if the panel confirmed the findings – in which almost one in 14 implants had leaked – then they should all be taken out in every case.
"With this sort of level of implant failure, particularly with this sort of material that isn’t medical grade, it’s sensible that they be removed," he told The Daily Telegraph. "I think that would be a reasonable way forward."
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