Dow Corning, facing more than 20,000 lawsuits, files for Chapter 11 (it would later agree to a $3.2 billion settlement). Separately, manufacturers Bristol-Myers Squibb, Baxter Healthcare, and 3M establish a settlement fund for women with damaged silicone implants.

2006

The FDA allows silicone breast implants back on the U.S. market.

2010

A government raid uncovers French implant maker Poly Implant Prothese’s use of an unapproved industrial-grade silicone; it shutters and its founder is jailed.

2018

Europe halts sales of Allergan’s textured implants.

July 2019

The FDA asks Allergan to recall the devices.

A version of this article appears in the June/July 2020 issue of Fortune with the headline "The Risky Business of Breast Implants."