2022 BIHS RESOURCES
Patient Resources
As part of our efforts to spread the word and have you attend the Breast Implant Health Summit,
we would like to offer the following:
20% off for all Bii patients
100% off if you have 2 practitioners register
For your convenience, we have provided you below with a request letter and 2 flyers that you can use to send an email, post, or hand out at your next office visit.
Printable BIHS Patient Practitioner Request Letter 2022
Printable BIHS Patient Flyer for Practitioner 2022
Printable BIHS Flyer 2022
Report Adverse Events
FDA
FDA 3/8/23 - Breast Implants: Reports of Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Various Lymphomas in Capsule Around Implants: FDA Safety Communication
FDA updated 11/16/21 - What You Need to Know About Breast Implants
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/what-know-about-breast-implants
FDA 10/27/21 - FDA Strengthens Safety Requirements and Updates Study Results for Breast Implants
FDA updated 6/14/21 - Labeling for Approved Breast Implants (SSED)
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/breast-implants/labeling-approved-breast-implants
FDA 8/20/20 - Medical Device Reports for Systemic Symptoms in Women with Breast Implants
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/breast-implants/medical-device-reports-systemic-symptoms-women-breast-implants
FDA Update 8/20/20 - 7 Things You Should Know About Breast Implants
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=FxX4F5VByDw
FDA 8/20/20 - Medical Device Reports for Systemic Symptoms in Women with Breast Implants
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/breast-implants/medical-device-reports-systemic-symptoms-women-breast-implants
FDA Update 8/20/20 - 7 Things You Should Know About Breast Implants
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=FxX4F5VByDw
FDA Update 8/20/20 Analysis of Medical Device Reports of Breast Implant Illness and Breast Implant-Associated Lymphoma | FDA
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-updates-analysis-medical-device-reports-breast-implant-illness-and-breast-implant-associated
FDA Update 6/29/20 Breast Implants - Certain Labeling Recommendations to Improve Patient Communication Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff
https://www.fda.gov/media/131885/download?fbclid=IwAR0h00BK_jJCGMLl7lcj9GxH_zyWgrtQ3Y2PskxIiuxnBCX_3Cn_u_jJhlI
FDA 5/18/20 Warning letter to Allergan and Ideal
https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/allergan-607690-05142020
FDA 5/14/20 - FDA issues warning letters to two breast implant manufacturers as part of ongoing efforts to protect patients
BIA-ALCL
10/9/21 - 3rd World Consensus Conference on BIA-ALCL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYHSUPUyUJs&t=22567s
11/6-7/20 - 2nd World Consensus Conference on BIA-ALCL
PUBLICATIONS & STUDIES
5/2023 -Understanding Breast Implant Illness
Brian R. Buinewicz, MD, Danielle Valoras, MOAS, PA-C, and Robyn Towt, BS
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2542432723000139?dgcid=author
4/2023 -Breast Implant Surgery: An Overview of the Risks and Health Complications
Prothe J, Rozovics P, Sykes R, Taccona M.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37000998/
2023 - Baker-IV capsular contracture is correlated with an increased amount of silicone material: an intra-patient study.
de Bakker, Erik; Zada, Liron; Schmidt, Robert; van Haasterecht,Ludo; Vethaak, A. Dick; Ariese, Freek; Dijkman, Henry ; Bult, Peter; Gibbs, Susan; Niessen, Frank
2/28/23 - Exposure to silicone breast implant-infused media is detrimental to Caenorhabditis elegans
Henry, B.P.M. Dijkman, Inca Slaats, and Samantha Hughes
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9968400/
9/7/21 - Outcomes of Implant Removal and Capsulectomy for Breast Implant Illness in 248 Patients
Jacob Y Katsnelson, Joseph R Spaniol, Joshua C Buinewicz, Frederick V Ramsey, Brian R Buinewicz
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34513545/
3/21/21 - Autoimmune dysautonomia in women with silicone breast implants
Gilad Halpert, Abdulla Watad, Avishai M.Tsur, Arad Dotan, Hector Enrique Quiros-Lim, Harald Heidecke, Boris Gilburd, Josef Haik, Yair Levy, Miri Blank, Howard Amital, Yehuda Shoenfeld
5/29/20 - Bilateral breast implant-associated chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL): A case report
Patrick P. Bletsis, Laura E. Janssen, Otto Visser, Saskia R. Offerman, Michiel A. Tellier, Laurens Laterveer, and Peter Houptb
4/15/20 - Interleukin 17 and senescent cells regulate the foreign body response to synthetic material implants in mice and humans
Liam Chung, David R. Maestas Jr., Andriana Lebid, Ashlie Mageau, Gedge D. Rosson, Xinqun Wu1, Matthew T. Wolf, Ada J. Tam, Isabel Vanderzee, Xiaokun Wang, James I. Andorko, Hong Zhang, Radhika Narain, Kaitlyn Sadtler, Hongni Fan, Daniela Čiháková, Claude Jourdan Le Saux, Franck Housseau, Drew M. Pardoll, and ProfileJennifer H. Elisseeff
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32295900/
1/11/20 - 21-year-old silicone breast implants causing recurrent pneumonia, chest pain and coughing
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007120300150
2017-2020 - 20 Publications with various topics involving breast implants
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yara_Bachour
5/2017 - Autoinflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA) Syndrome is Misguided
Arthur E. Brawer, M.D.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1568997218302398
2/9/16 - Gel Bleed and Rupture of Silicone Breast Implants Investigated by Light-, Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis of Internal Organs and Nervous Tissue
R.M. Kappel, L.L. Boer, and H. Dijkman
9/20/21- Assessment of Silicone Particle Migration Among Women Undergoing Removal or Revision of Silicone Breast Implants in the Netherlands
Henry B. P. M. Dijkman, PhD1; Inca Slaats, BSc1,2; Peter Bult, PhD, MD2
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34542618/
7/2020 - Understanding Breast Implant Illness, Before and After Explantation
Wee, Corinne E. MD; Younis, Joseph BS; Isbester, Kelsey BS; Smith, Arvin BS; Wangler, Brooke; Sarode, Anuja L. MPHb; Patil, Nirav MBBS, MPH; Grunzweig, Katherine MD; Boas, Samuel BS; Harvey, Donald J. MD; Kumar, Anand R. MD; Feng, Lu-Jean MD