ArticleAesthetic plastic surgery2024
Breast Implant Illness Through a Psychiatric Lens.
Article in Aesthetic plastic surgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Breast implant explantation and capsulectomy in symptomatic patients. Is there any improvement with the procedure? Systematic review and meta-analysis.JPRAS open · 2026Review
- Systematic biocompatibility assessment of 4-µm surface silicone implants.Biomaterials and biosystems · 2026Article
- From Hashtags to Health Narratives: A Content Analysis of Breast Implant Illness on TikTok.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2025Article
- Truth or Myth: Is Breast Implant Illness Really an Illness?Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2025Article
- Correlation Between Medically Diagnosed Anxiety and Depression Disorder and Self-Reported Breast Implant Illness.Aesthetic surgery journal · 2024Article
- Long-Term Biodegradation of Polyacrylamide Gel Residues in Mammary Glands: Physico-Chemical Analysis, Chromatographic Detection, and Implications for Chronic Inflammation.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Since their introduction in the 1960's, the safety of silicone breast implants has remained contentious due to concerns regarding carcinogenicity as well as a growing array of adverse psychiatric symptoms, which have now been termed 'Breast Implant Illness.' This article aims to explore the merits of a psychiatric approach to treating Breast Implant Illness by outlining how it is defined by psychiatric symptoms and categorized alongside other psychiatric illnesses. Furthermore, it is unclear whether the pathology of Breast Implant Illness is purely medical or psychiatric. However, the efficacy of the medical approach to treatment through a process called explantation, which involves removal of the implant and surrounding scar tissue, or capsule, is not strongly supported by existing data. A psychiatric approach to treatment, in conjunction with explanation, thus holds potential in remedying the novel and poorly understood Breast Implant Illness.Level of Evidence V This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
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