Hunter woman implanted with pelvic mesh device at 22 joins historic class action

By Joanne McCarthy
October 30 2017 - 3:30pm
Young: Hunter woman Teigan, 31, who had a pelvic mesh device implanted when she was 22 to treat incontinence. Complications have left her needing to lay on her back in a warm bath to urinate at times. Picture: Marina Neil.
Young: Hunter woman Teigan, 31, who had a pelvic mesh device implanted when she was 22 to treat incontinence. Complications have left her needing to lay on her back in a warm bath to urinate at times. Picture: Marina Neil.

TEIGAN was 22 in 2008 when she was implanted with a “gold standard” pelvic mesh sling device for incontinence, less than two months after the birth of her second child.

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