Nicholas Parkhouse, a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the McIndoe Surgical Centre in East Grinstead and a spokesman for the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, said the infection rate in the UK would be well under 1%.

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Estimates of PIP implants in each country are based on the number sold to plastic surgeons, but no one knows how many were actually inserted, said Simon Kay, a plastic surgeon at the University of Leeds and past president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons.

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