August 10, 2026 — 12:00am

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About 15 years ago, an email from a PhD student with a bold idea dropped into the inbox of Professor Anand Deva.

“It said something like: I’ve got this idea about using an absorbable breast scaffold to encourage tissue regeneration,” Deva recalled.

The plastic and reconstructive surgeon had not yet become a beacon for women with breast implant complications. But they would soon come from across Australia and overseas with ruptures, infections and a constellation of symptoms linked to breast implant illness.

The stud…

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