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Letter to the Editor
Two women with extended use of contraceptive implants
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  1. Janet Bentley
  1. Correspondence to Dr Janet Bentley, Kingswood Surgery, Swindon, UK; janet.bentley{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2017-200005

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    I presume that I am in an unusual position to have been providing contraceptive implants continually since 1993 from one site. I have not found reports of long-term use of implants and I think that the following reports may be of interest to journal readers.

    One of my patients has had 23 years' continuous use of subdermal contraceptive implants and the other’s usage totals over 21 years, with one interruption of less than 3 years. Our longest continuous implant user has relied on subcutaneous contraception since December 1994 when she had her first …

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