Breast implant removal in London
What the London market looks like, how to verify a surgeon’s licence in Ontario, and the questions that separate a specialist from a website.
The London market
London is the referral centre for southwestern Ontario, with a plastic surgery training programme at Western University and the region’s tertiary hospitals. For patients across Middlesex, Elgin, Oxford, Chatham-Kent and Essex, it is usually the nearest place with real depth of choice rather than one or two surgeons.
Because London serves the whole region, a consultation here is often a shorter trip than Toronto for anyone in the southwest. Ask whether follow-up can be handled locally if you are travelling in from Windsor, Chatham or Sarnia.
Is removal covered in Ontario?
OHIP does not fund cosmetic surgery, but may fund removal where it is medically necessary — implant rupture and severe capsular contracture are the usual grounds. Removal for systemic symptoms alone is generally not funded. Pre-approval is normally required, so have the surgeon’s office confirm what applies before assuming either way.
Where a procedure is not funded, the cost is yours. Ask for the quote in writing, and ask specifically what it includes — surgeon’s fee, anaesthetist, facility, pathology and follow-up are sometimes billed separately.
Verified surgeons in London
We publish a surgeon only once we have checked their board certification against the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontarioand the practice has confirmed the entry. We will not fill this section by copying practice websites — that produces a list of who ranks well, not who operates well.
If you are a surgeon in London whose practice includes explant work, listing is free and there is nothing to buy.
Claim a London listingVerify any Ontario surgeon yourself
Do this before the consultation rather than after. It takes a few minutes and it is public information.
- Check licence status and any disciplinary history with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
- Confirm certification separately — in Canada the relevant body for this surgery is the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. A provincial licence means someone may practise medicine; it does not mean they are a certified plastic surgeon.
- Ask how many explant procedures with capsulectomy they performed in the last twelve months. Someone who does this weekly answers immediately.
- Confirm the surgical facility is accredited, and that it is where you will actually be operated on.
Our provider guidance covers the full question list and the warning signs worth walking away from, and the en bloc page explains why the answer you want on technique is about judgement rather than a promise.
Cost in London
We are not going to quote you a range assembled from marketing pages. We are collecting what people actually paid, by region and procedure type, and will publish the London figures once we have enough of them to mean something.
If you have had explant surgery in the London area and are willing to share what you were charged, write to admin@explanthealth.com. Contributions are anonymous and only aggregates are published.