Commentary on The New Opt-Out Dutch National Breast Implant Registry - Lessons learnt from the road to implementation

The Dutch can be considered fortunate in, unlike many other countries, an estimated 95% of implants are used by a single craft group and funding for a breast implant registry is forthcoming (1). The authors point out that the variance between the quality and uptake around the world of different registry projects has detracted from the ability to extract useful information from these data bases in the past, and believe that an opt out system will improve the situation. ICOBRA was established to increase the homogeneity of the data set, but without universality of uptake as in the Dutch system, assemblage of these various sources is questionable.

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