Will a prosthesis set off metal detectors?

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Rague
Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
Just thought about this - when going through a metal detector (like at a courthouse/gov. building/airport/etc.) will the little 'B-B's' in your pros set it off?

Susan

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  • Unknown
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  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
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    The thought about it came to
    The thought about it came to mind because either tomorrow or the next day I'm going to the Federal Building to apply for my SS and I was wondering what to expect going through the metal detector - have never been through one with my 'good' pros which is weighted with little "BB's", just with 'the little fluff thingy' shortly after surgery.
  • susanleeann
    susanleeann Member Posts: 58
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    only if made of iron or any
    only if made of iron or any iron based metals.
  • Dot53
    Dot53 Member Posts: 239 Member
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    My Plastic Surgeon says that
    My Plastic Surgeon says that the metal in my expanders will set off the detectors at the airport. I carry a letter from him stating that I have had the bilateral mastectomy and expanders with a metal disk. I also have my plastic "boob card".

    Hope this helps...
    Dot
  • katznc
    katznc Member Posts: 70
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    Dot53 said:

    My Plastic Surgeon says that
    My Plastic Surgeon says that the metal in my expanders will set off the detectors at the airport. I carry a letter from him stating that I have had the bilateral mastectomy and expanders with a metal disk. I also have my plastic "boob card".

    Hope this helps...
    Dot

    What is a boob card?
    Ok there is something I haven't heard yet. Like that doesn't happen every day now. i did think about the metal detector thing. How wonderful. You get to flash a doctor letter letting some airport person or cop know you have no boob?
  • Dot53
    Dot53 Member Posts: 239 Member
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    katznc said:

    What is a boob card?
    Ok there is something I haven't heard yet. Like that doesn't happen every day now. i did think about the metal detector thing. How wonderful. You get to flash a doctor letter letting some airport person or cop know you have no boob?

    Yep..
    As awful as it sounds yes... A "boob" card (actually its called a "device identification card")is the size and shape of a credit card but has a photo of an expander on it and the metallic component. it says is not compatible with MRI and may be detected by security screening devices....

    Dot
  • katznc
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    Dot53 said:

    Yep..
    As awful as it sounds yes... A "boob" card (actually its called a "device identification card")is the size and shape of a credit card but has a photo of an expander on it and the metallic component. it says is not compatible with MRI and may be detected by security screening devices....

    Dot

    boob card
    Well the card sounds much better than a letter. Thanks
  • Dot53
    Dot53 Member Posts: 239 Member
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    katznc said:

    boob card
    Well the card sounds much better than a letter. Thanks

    I carry both...

    I carry both...
  • jnl
    jnl Member Posts: 3,869 Member
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    It probably does depend on
    It probably does depend on what it is made of. If you think it might, your oncologist or plastic surgeon can give you a card to carry.

    Leeza
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    I carried my Device ID card
    I carried my Device ID card for my tissue expander when I traveled. But the expander never once set off a metal detector, so the card stayed in my wallet. Not sure about a prosthesis, though.
  • Skeezie
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    tigger99 said:

    I carried my Device ID card
    I carried my Device ID card for my tissue expander when I traveled. But the expander never once set off a metal detector, so the card stayed in my wallet. Not sure about a prosthesis, though.

    B-B's ? ? ? ?
    I think my fake boob is all silicone. I'm gonna ask my "boob" lady when I see her next week for more bras. Can you feel the B-B's?

    I wondered about my port setting off alarms but I think that's plastic...I will ask my surgeon when I see him for a follow-up next week too. (Busy week planned) I will also find out how long I can keep my wonderful port. Forever I hope. I have a Port Card in my wallet.

    I did set off alarms going into the court house last week but they said it was the metal trim on my jacket. After all that I was in the wrong building. What a hoot.

    Am anxious to hear about everyone's fake boob with B-B's. Something new everyday... Being a pink warrior is definitley not boring!

    Hugs all, Judy :-)
  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
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    Skeezie said:

    B-B's ? ? ? ?
    I think my fake boob is all silicone. I'm gonna ask my "boob" lady when I see her next week for more bras. Can you feel the B-B's?

    I wondered about my port setting off alarms but I think that's plastic...I will ask my surgeon when I see him for a follow-up next week too. (Busy week planned) I will also find out how long I can keep my wonderful port. Forever I hope. I have a Port Card in my wallet.

    I did set off alarms going into the court house last week but they said it was the metal trim on my jacket. After all that I was in the wrong building. What a hoot.

    Am anxious to hear about everyone's fake boob with B-B's. Something new everyday... Being a pink warrior is definitley not boring!

    Hugs all, Judy :-)

    The fitter is the one who
    The fitter is the one who called them B-B's but aren't really one's that you would use in a BB gun but are much smaller. There's a bunch of them in the form that you can see and they sort of migrate around.

    Susan
  • Skeezie
    Skeezie Member Posts: 586 Member
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    Rague said:

    The fitter is the one who
    The fitter is the one who called them B-B's but aren't really one's that you would use in a BB gun but are much smaller. There's a bunch of them in the form that you can see and they sort of migrate around.

    Susan

    Hmmmmmmmm,
    Mine is definitly just silicone. I pushed and squeezed and no little b-b's. Your sounds kinda cool. Mine's boring compared to yours. :-(

    Hugs, Judy
  • survivorbc09
    survivorbc09 Member Posts: 4,374 Member
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    tigger99 said:

    I carried my Device ID card
    I carried my Device ID card for my tissue expander when I traveled. But the expander never once set off a metal detector, so the card stayed in my wallet. Not sure about a prosthesis, though.

    Your oncologist can give you
    Your oncologist can give you a card to carry if you afraid it might set the detector off. I thought I would need one when they inserted the titanium marker in me, but, they removed it when they did the lumpectomy.

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