The Dutch health authorities banned the sale of PIP and M-Rofil implants in 2010, but experts believe they are still on sale, with reports of the implants being used in Estonia as recently as two months ago. Rofil has since gone bankrupt.
"Those with M-implants should seek advice. I would suggest they do not seek advice from the surgeon who put them in because I suspect they are probably not going to give the best advice," said Simon Withey, a plastic surgeon advising the government on the scandal, told the newspaper.
Yesterday Nuffield Health, a private health care company, agreed to pay to remove PIP implants from its former breast enlargement patients if there was a "clinical need". That would include psychological distress caused by having the sub-standard implants even if there were no other symptoms, a company spokesman said.
Nuffield had performed 160 breast enlargements with PIP implants. No other company has matched Nuffield's pledge.
Yesterday Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, indicated he would consider creating a British breast implant register.
Professor Norman Williams, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said the move would help track problems with implants much earlier and avoid the "disasters and misery" caused by the PIP scandal.
A UK Breast Implant Registry was established in 1993 on the recommendation of the Department of Health to track implant patients' health, but it closed in 2006 as too few women wished to take part in the scheme.
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