Sentence examples for substandard implants from inspiring English sources

By then, 45 substandard implants had been found.

A Discovery Leads to Others The substandard implants might never have been discovered were it not for a clerical error.

Virtually none of the substandard implants in Philadelphia were reported to the nuclear commission, meaning errors went uninvestigated for weeks, months and sometimes years.

The V.A. has yet to fully account for how these substandard implants affected veterans, though no one is believed to have died from them.

Investigators say he is responsible for all but a handful of the 92 substandard implants at the Philadelphia V.A. Dr. Whittington declined to be interviewed.

But on the many internet forums that have sprung up since December, when the French government advised all women with the substandard implants to have them removed, there are few signs of comfort.

Dr. Kao and other members of his team, the commission said, were not properly supervised or trained in what constitutes a substandard implant and the need to report it.

LA ROCHELLE, France — Some of the women who received substandard breast implants made by the now defunct company Poly Implants Prothèses no longer sleep facedown.

News of the potential health risk spread rapidly since December, when the French government advised 30,000 women to have substandard PIP implants removed following warnings that they were more likely to rupture than other implants.

In December last year, the French government advised 30,000 women to have substandard PIP implants removed following health officials' warnings that they were more likely to rupture than other implants.

PARIS — The case against the founder of a French company at the center of an international scandal over substandard breast implants advanced on Friday as he was placed under formal criminal investigation.