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Article: Silicone breast implant debate back in spotlight.
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- Santa Barbara News-Press (Santa Barbara, CA)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Byline: Frank Nelson
Jun. 1--The debate over silicone gel-filled breast implants is a highly charged emotional issue that doesn't seem to have cooled in the 13 years since wide-ranging health concerns swept the products off the U.S. market.
Indeed, as two Santa Barbara implant makers, Mentor and Inamed, try to persuade the Food and Drug Administration to relax the 1992 ban, supporters and objectors remain as polarized as ever, arming themselves with weapons remaining from past battles.
These deep differences bubbled to the surface when The New York Times recently reported allegations from two former Mentor employees that the company had sold ...