I'm a very scientific and critical viewer (and person), and found this to be an excellent, balanced, even-handed doc. I'm able to maintain objectivity here because I'm a male who's not in or connected to the medical profession (so I don't have skin of any kind in the game) and love breasts - of all sizes.
One looks for the objective evidence, and it was here: The biochemist working for an implant manufacturer who ran the tests proving that the envelopes of even *saline* implants leached silicones into the users; Michelle's lab tests that showed those silicones were in her system; the doctor who confirmed that those compounds linger in the users' systems for *years* after removal of the implants. This is damning evidence. Rather disturbing, too, is the final shot of Dr. Rose, who, after admitting that a small percentage of his own patients suffer problems, desperately grasps about in a pathetic attempt to argue their safety. This is going to seem like an extreme comparison, but I got exactly the same sense of denial recently from watching Horst Wächter (the son of a notorious Nazi war criminal), unable to reconcile his belief in his father, the "good Nazi who helped the Jews", with the hundreds thousands of deaths he was responsible for. Fellow reviewer @workoutsmurf exhibits this sort of denial too.
The filmmakers were smart enough to not place much stock in the hysterical bookface drum circles, because those groups (online and off) exhibit every kind of bias and it's difficult to separate the real sufferers from the psychosomatics - and it's important to understand that both exist.
The reality is that these devices were invented and pushed into the market (and patients) without any safety testing whatsoever - and unsuspecting women became the guinea pigs in an experiment that's now been running for 60 years. There are a million factors to blame, from space-age techno-excitement to medical paternalism to female vanity, but the result has been that the FDA suffered complete "regulatory capture", otherwise these things would be much more strictly controlled (if not banned outright), and at very least *real* informed consent would be required where their use is compelling. Because until these materials are to a significant extent forced from the market, they'll continue to represent too great a profit center and there will be no motivation to come up with replacements that are actually inert and won't harm the users.
(Added points for the section on polypropylene string implants, true horrors that I didn't even previously know existed.)
As for Michelle, if she has the strength of character to shake off her trademark *, she should do the same with all those stupid glasses and switch to something that doesn't dominate her face.
