The French company used an inferior, industrial-grade silicone in the implants and are more likely to rupture or ooze than those made from surgical silicone.
Ms. Rodriguez is one of the 30,000 Frenchwomen who were given the implants, which were filled with an industrial-grade silicone and are more likely to rupture or ooze than those made from surgical silicone.
The implants — made by a French company, Poly Implants Prothèses, that was closed last year — used an inferior, industrial-grade silicone and are more likely to rupture or ooze than those made from surgical silicone.
The implants, which are made from surgical steel, titanium, or gold, can be done anyplace skin is loose enough to be pinchable: not just on the forehead but on the back of the hand and in other, more gruesome spots.
The implants, which are made from surgical steel, titanium, or gold, can be done anyplace skin is loose enough to be pinchable: not just on the forehead but on the back of the hand and in other, more gruesome spots... View Article Rebecca Mead joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997.
Lee wanted the top of this dress to be made from surgical slides used for hospital specimens, which we found in a medical-supply shop on Wigmore Street.
