breast implant and explant Resources
learn about breast implants
- What to Know About Breast Implants, FDA
- Things to Consider Before Getting Breast Implants, FDA
- Boxed Warning for Breast Implants, FDA
- What you need to know about breast implants, National Center for Health Research
- Breast Implant Health Summit – This practitioner-focused resource features current research on treatment and interventions for implant-related illness. Its resource list is constantly updated.
- National Center for Health Research – A nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on research that can improve the health of adults and children that offers breastimplantinfo.org
- Q & A with the FDA about Breast Implant Associated Lymphoma
learn about explant,
breast implant illness,
and connect with others
- breastimplantillness.com and their Questions to Ask Explant Surgeons and Other Resources
- healingbreastimplantillness.com and their Questions to Ask Explant Surgeons
- Breastimplantinfo.org and their One-pager to take on consults
- truthaboutbreastimplants.net and their free E-book
(Note: These questions for surgeons help you prepare for explant irrespective of whether you have or identify with breast implant illness.)
explant to flat &
explant to flap
- Flat Closure Now 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on aesthetic flat closure. They create & share resources, tools, photos and community support for fellow flat closure patients before, during, and after surgery
- Not Putting A Shirt on It 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocating for optimal surgical outcomes for women going flat after mastectomy.
- Going Flat and Explant Surgery from Survivingbreastcancer.org
- Skarlette Limited Attractive post-surgical lingerie, designed by flat women, for flat women.
- Flat and Happy: Mastectomy and Flat Closure- a Personal and Practical Guide non-fiction, self-help book by Katrin van Dam
- Flap reconstruction after explant
- Implant removal after breast reconstruction
additional healing after BII-related explant
- Reversing Breast Implant Illness with Sarah Phillipe, RN, FDN-P Detox, restore, and heal through 1:1 sessions or The Explant Reset Program group program developed by a former RN, now certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner, Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, and Breast Implant Illness and Detox Expert. Other ways to connect with Sarah: Private FB Support Group, Instagram, YouTube
- BII Bridge Program with Christina Rouland Two-phase preparation, recovery, and detox program developed by a BII-survivor.
connect with breast implant safety groups
- GPAC United: Breast Implant Illness Advocacy – GPAC works to ensure that every patient is given the proper safety information to make educated and informed decisions about their medical procedures.
- Breast Implant Safety Alliance – (BISA Nonprofit) works to raise awareness, optimize outcomes and ensure informed consent for patients considering breast implant surgery.
health insurance & explant
overcome explant’s mental, emotional, and social challenges
Breast Implant Through Explant (BRITE℠) Inner Healing with Amanda Savage Brown, PhD, LCSW offers a unique blend of science and mindfulness-based strategies to find your way through explant’s harder-to-see, but deeply felt, inner journey. It starts long before you get breast implants and stays with you long after explant. No matter where you are in your journey with breast implants or their removal, BRITE Inner Healing teaches you research-backed inner skills so that finally know how to give yourself acceptance, no matter how your body changes on this journey and throughout your life.
To steady yourself before, during, or after breast implant removal, or anytime it’s hard to reclaim you, download my free e-book Using Your Inner BRAKE.
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bras, lingerie, oil, and cream
- Pretty Lovely You Founded by a BII-survivor-owned who guarantees bra sizes for smaller chested and post-explant women.
- Love, Lexxi Founded by a post-explant woman who teamed up with industry veterans to marry comfort with stunning designs.
- Skarlette Limited Attractive post-surgical lingerie, designed by flat women, for flat women.
- AIKYOU | The lingerie brand for small boobs
- Complex Creatures all-natural breast oil and cream for post-surgery healing and breast health.