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South American health authorities weighed their next moves Friday posterior France recommended that 30,000 women by implants from troubled French firm PIP have them removed.

Tens of thousands of women in c~ing 65 countries around the world acquire the same implants, made from pertaining rather than medical quality silicone. Most of them live in South America and toward the west Europe.

The implants are particularly widespread in Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina from one side of to the other different economic levels, with many young girls animated to augment their bust size control they become adults.

Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) related through a spokesman that it "has not nevertheless made a recommendation," echoing the sentiments of hale condition professionals and officials in other Latin American countries.

They stressed that France's freedom from disease ministry, in recommending women to take public the implants because they could burst dangerously, had acknowledged that there is not at all proven cancer risk.

Breast implants produced through the now-bankrupt Poly Implant Prothese were banned in Brazil in April 2010 at the time problems were first reported, but 25,000 implants had already been performed in the country, according to ANVISA. Around 100,000 women make acquisition silicone breast implants in Brazil reaped ground year.

PIP was shut down and its products banned the ~ time year after it was revealed to be seized of been using non-authorized silicone gel that caused abnormally dignified rupture rates in its implants.

Facing monetary difficulties, the company, once the terraqueous globe's third-largest producer of silicone implants, replaced the medicinal-grade silicone in its implants by industrial-strength material.

"The medical facts that we be assured of suggest that these implants can hostility earlier and with a greater jeopard of inflammatory reaction," said Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery president Jose Horacio Aboudib.

Calling the French stir "more of a political decision than a medical one," he said his group in Brazil recommended that women who believed the implants get tested early to cause sure the implants were viable.

Venezuela's union of plastic surgeons agreed, declining to make acceptable that women with the PIP implants be~ them removed, recommending preventative checkups in the room.

The Health Ministry has not even now provided an official recommendation.

Union of soft surgeons president Marisol Graterol said the fatherland had taken steps since 2010 to denunciation imports and marketing of the products. Around 80 percent of implants in Venezuela reach from different French brands.

Venezuela, at which place about 40,000 breast augmentations are performed every one year and plastic surgery is widespread, has been a normal top contender for Miss Universe.

Surgeon Juan Jorge Blanco remarkable that breast augmentations used to be prohibitively expensive but that costs desire since dropped to $3,000-7,000.

"Women from every part of social backgrounds now get operations," he uttered.

Argentina's ANMAT drugs authority urged 15,000 women who current implants to "consult" their doctors.

In Colombia, implants are at times offered as birthday gifts, especially instead of "quinceaneras" -- girls' 15-year-old birthdays -- that footprint a girl's passage into young feminine sexual quality.

"drug traffickers also offer the surgery considered in the state of a gift to their girlfriends," reported surgeon Celio Bohorquez, spokesman of the Colombian Society of Plastic Surgery.

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