Various FTM activists have pointed out that it?s way harder to get breasts removed than it is to get breast implants inserted. The former procedure requires a psychological evaluation in many places, but anybody can walk into a plastic surgeon?s office and plunk down the cash for a boob job.

Now a team of Dutch researchers has suggested in a British Medical Journal article that maybe women seeking breast implants should have psychological screening as well. The researchers looked at 3,521 women who?d had breast implants and found they were three times as likely to commit suicide as other women in their age group. Whether the disappointment of life with bigger breasts led these women to kill themselves or women who are predisposed to suicide are more likely to get implants in the first place remains a mystery. Of course, we?re only talking about 15 suicides versus 5 suicides in the general population. But last week, a Finnish-American study found similar results, the third study in a row that found a breast implant-suicide link, according to .

Not surprisingly, the Aesthetic Surgery Association rushed to condemn the Swedish study as bad science and called for more research. It doesn?t appear the Association has had anything to say about the confirmatory Finnish study yet.