Much of the following information was provided to us in our medical analysis reports.

By the early 80’s most Corporations had discontinued production of the saline breast implants and were marketing only residual stock. One reason was the publication of information on fungal infections associated with the use of the implants. How interesting that A Position Paper by the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons (The Newsletter of The Canadian Society Of Plastic Surgeons, Winter-Spring 1994.) makes no mention of this.

The saline implant’s elastomer shell is made of silicone and is still being used. We know that they made variations in the thickness of this semi-permeable shell. We know that regardless of how thick it is, it has slow seepage both into and out of it. This results from movement of the body and arms that causes change in pressure within the breast. The implant then becomes septic from body fluid, fungus, and bacteria contained in the outdated saline (saline has a shelf-life under 1 year).

If a saline implant is left on a table, the saline will evaporate in several weeks. The implant will go flat, all by itself. This proves the semi-permeable elastomer shell is not air-tight. Dr. Pierre Blais, an eminent specialist in implant design and failure, proved that, since fluids go both into and out of all breast implants, saline implants become septic. It certainly is safer to have the septic poison sacks explanted than to leave them in the body where they can only cause more sickness.

Scar tissue may act as a protected environment for micro-organisms; this is true whether those organisms were in the implant or came from a woman’s own body. In many women, "the pattern of infection and the nature of the micro-organisms involved in the process are different from what is encountered in naturally occurring infections".

"Instead, the progression parallels diseases more frequently encountered in a military trauma context, in particular in connection with wounds and deeply embedded foreign debris. Residual disease processes may take many years to abate and continuing problems are expected over the long term."

Many doctors, other than plastic surgeons, question any kind of implant in the breast. The breast is a disease-prone part of a woman’s body that easily infects. Some implants have been implanted with a faulty valve that quickly releases the contents. A very common problem.

All implants obscure breast tissue. During mammography, cancerous tumours are hidden by scar tissue and the capsules surrounding the implants. (Canada Health and Welfare advises implanted women that mammograms weaken the implant and may even cause it to rupture; they suggest ultrasounds only.)

If a woman is concerned about cancer, she should not even consider implants. Silicone, which includes the elastomer shell that holds the contents of all breast implants, did encourage or cause cancer in rats. "It would be irresponsible to disregard the possibility of malignant development of permanent implants in humans". FDA report to American Congress 1992, pages 8, 46, and 47.

It has been established that a nursing infant can break an implant with a 1/4-pound nursing pull. Since Dr. Blais established that all breast implants become septic, it is obvious that some of this septic fluid can find its way into much of the surrounding breast tissue. Do you want to risk these toxins in your nursing baby’s stomach? I think not!!!

Excerpts from Dow Chemical’s and Dow Corning’s court documents of December 2, 1993 (that the Implant Awareness Society obtained from law firms) clearly state on pages 15-16 of their OWN 1956 SCIENTIFIC STUDIES that "...certain silicone compounds were in fact biologically active within the human body, and that these biologically active compounds caused adverse health effects such as decreased testicular size and reduced spermatogenesis".

"Dow Chemical and Dow Corning scientists orally administered Dow Corning 200 fluid to two rats and two lactating dogs with specially labelled radioactive tracers to trace the path of the silicone in the animal’s bodies. The labelled-silicone was found in the intestines, right adrenal, skin and hair, heart, skull bone, brain, kidney, urine, liver, muscle, lung, renal fat, blood and spleen of the rats. In the lactating dogs, the labelled-silicone was found in the skin and hair, brain, bile, liver, kidney, heart, milk, urine, skeletal muscle, lung, adrenal, blood, spleen, heart, thyroid, pancreas, and blood from the lung." (Established facts in 1956).

Now you can understand from their own documents, and we have 300 pages of Dow Chemical and Dow Corning scientific studies, that they did indeed conduct toxicological and biological tests proving that silicone is NOT INERT.

We want to thank you for your interest. Please feel free to contact us, all enquiries are welcome.

Adella Matthew

President