Video shared by a board-certified plastic surgeon shows a set of aged saline-filled breast implants. Both of the implants are discolored, and dark particulate matter swirls inside one of them. After more than 20 years in practice, it’s the first…
Mold
Editor’s Note: Mold and other particulate matter in breast implants is a topic of high public and patient interest. This incident dates from March 2022. A surgeon said a breast implant full of swirling particles of some kind was the…
Viral video footage from a Miami plastic surgery clinic shows an old set of saline breast implants filled with alarming amounts of mold. Explant surgery specialist Dr. Dev Vibhakar of Aqua Plastic Surgery removed the implants for a patient in…
For the second time in four months, a woman has gone viral for revealing that her breast implants had grown moldy. Both women had saline breast implants. Both women attributed ill health conditions to their breast implants. And both women…
Social media star and podcast host Bunnie Xo (Bunnie DeFord) took to TikTok Monday, May 9, 2022, to share that the saline breast implants she had surgically removed in late 2019 have since spawned visible mold growth. DeFord chronicled her…
It’s been a virtual ticket to virality and media coverage. Plastic surgeons have dropped, driven over, blended, and even bitten breast implants in creative and entertaining—but ultimately inaccurate—tests of the implant’s strength. Ensuing print coverage has suggested that some of…