Mentorcorp Covers Up High Rupture Rate and Flea Infestation

A 2005 NY Times article written by Gardiner Harris details the accounts of 2 former Mentorcorp employees, who were told to destroy documents revealing high rupture rates and poor quality of some types of Mentor implants. Is this the company you would choose? Investigate the history of the company that manufactures your implants. If they haven't proven to display integrity in their practices maybe you don't want their product in your body.

"One employee, John C. Karjanis, who from 1996 until 1998 was manager of
product evaluation for the company, the Mentor Corporation, said some top
executives instructed him to destroy reports detailing the high rupture rates
and poor quality of some types of implants because the products "are in the
customers." He also said the implants were sometimes contaminated with fleas."

"Mentor employees said under oath that their company significantly underreported implant problems," Dr. Zuckerman said. "Mentor's new statistics also seem questionable. Are Mentor implants so much better than their competitors' in terms of rupture rates, or are they providing misleading or false information?"