Dr. Robert Whitfield analyzed 694 breast implant specimens and found bacteria in 203 of them, a 29% positive rate. This means 29% of samples tested positive, not 29% of patients. The positive samples contained 103 different bacterial species.
Of the 694 samples submitted, 203 returned positive findings. So that's 29%. And again, this is a sample-level result. It is not correct to say that 29% of patients had infection. It is not correct to say that 29% of all the people with breast implants have biofilm. The accurate statement is, you know, of the specimens that I took care of, 29% were positive, and across these positive samples, the analysis detected 103 unique types of bacterial species.
