What are Trilucent Breast Implants (Peanut Oil Breast Implants, Soy Oil Breast Implants, Soya Oil Breast Implants, Soybean Oil Breast Implants)?
As the above suggests, such breast implants were filled with various organic oils. The hope was that, as in the case of saline, organic oils would be absorbed in the case of a leak without setting up an inflammatory reaction, in the case of implant rupture. Safety data lacking, along with reports of local inflammatory effects on rupture, the implant was taken off the UK market. Further information from the British MHRA (Equivalent of FDA, except for the food part), can be studied below. Trilucent breast implants These implants were removed from the market in 1999, and in 2000 the Medical Devices Agency (now MHRA) recommended that these implants should be explanted. The Trilucent™ Care Centre (TCC), which was set up for patients with these implants, closed on December 31 2004. AIE Inc has taken over the functions carried out by the TCC. A clinical research programme was sponsored by AIE Inc and was carried out by an independent panel of experts to investigate the long-term health effect
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