Breast implant removal in Montreal
What the Montreal market looks like, how to verify a surgeon’s licence in Quebec, and the questions that separate a specialist from a website.
The Montreal market
Quebec is the only Canadian market where a meaningful share of explant searches are in French — "explantation mammaire" carries more volume than most English city terms nationally. If you are more comfortable in French, ask whether consent documents and post-operative instructions are available in French, not only the consultation.
Physicians in Quebec are regulated by the Collège des médecins du Québec, which maintains a public directory of licensed physicians and their specialties.
Is removal covered in Quebec?
RAMQ does not fund cosmetic surgery, but may fund removal where it is medically necessary, most commonly rupture. Removal for systemic symptoms alone is generally not funded. Requirements differ from other provinces, so confirm them directly.
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 Montreal
We publish a surgeon only once we have checked their board certification against the Collège des médecins du Québecand 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 Montreal whose practice includes explant work, listing is free and there is nothing to buy.
Claim a Montreal listingVerify any Quebec 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 Collège des médecins du Québec.
- 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 Montreal
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 Montreal figures once we have enough of them to mean something.
If you have had explant surgery in the Montreal area and are willing to share what you were charged, write to admin@explanthealth.com. Contributions are anonymous and only aggregates are published.